Taiwan – Efalien Co., Ltd. is a leading manufacturer of jewelry and accessories offering a diverse product line ranging from earrings, necklaces, buttons and hair clips to mobile phone accessories and more. Serving product designers across the fashion and accessories industries, the company had relied on manual processes for years to produce its sample prototypes. Creating samples manually was a slow, laborious process and fraught with quality control issues. Also, manual processes made it difficult to coordinate between the research and development and production departments. An automated workflow was clearly needed to keep the business moving forward.

The finished product

“Roland Taiwan has supported us well,” Zhu said. “Going from manual processes to digital 3D milling was easy with the exceptional training we received and after sales support.”

Soon Zhu had mastered the MDX’s basic operation and was well versed in the production processes critical to his growing business. The addition of the MDX gave him the rapid prototyping capabilities he needed. Before Roland technology, it had taken several days to create a single sample.

Xiaoquan Zhu and his Roland equipment, the MDX-40R and MDX-15

Once the MDX was up and running, he could produce three or four samples in a day – all with the exceptional precision of Roland milling technology. Revisions to designs are much easier as well, involving simple edits to digital files.

Today Zhu is very satisfied with his production environment and with the MDX – so much that Efalien Co., Ltd added an MDX-40R in 2006. Currently, 95 percent of the company’s production is completed digitally using Roland milling technologies.