product
development
starts here
Validate your idea quickly, build your prototype, and share your brand story. InDro Forge at Bayview Yards is a full-service prototyping lab, design studio, fabrication shop, and digital media lab where innovators, entrepreneurs, and firms bring their ideas to life.
protoyping lab
design strategy
We employ cutting-edge design tools and methodologies to craft visually appealing and user-centric products, ensuring that every detail is meticulously considered.
prototyping
Rapid and precise creation of prototypes in our prototyping lab that allow you to visualize, test and refine your product concepts before proceeding to full-scale production.
production
Ensure that your products are manufactured efficiently, cost-effectively and without compromising quality with our infrastructure, technology and skilled workforce.
The Creative Heart of Bayview Yards
Collaborative and Iterative Process
As an integral part of your team, we engage in close collaboration with you during the design phase to gain a deep understanding of your vision and desired results. We swiftly construct efficient iterative prototypes that enhance quality and performance, all while minimizing risk, expenses, and potential obstacles down the road.
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The Experience and Expertise to Bring Your Ideas to Life
tools and technology
advanced design, prototyping, and manufacturing equipment
metal printing
3d printing
3D printing allows for the creation of parts that couldn’t be made by any other means. Produce a cost-efficient model that creates a real visualization of the size and feel of your product. This is especially useful for early concept user testing as it ensures a more refined finished product.
advanced manufacturing
CNC machines enable repeatability, replication, and consistency which are all critical benefits when making design iterations and small production runs. Our carefully curated list of machines ensures we can quickly fabricate your functional prototype, machine parts and components in a variety of materials and finishes.
Electronics: Design & Fabrication
low volume production
InDro Forge specializes in low volume production, prioritizing meticulous attention to detail and customization. This ensures that each item meets specific quality standards, making it cost-effective for small businesses and industries with fluctuating demand. By minimizing excess inventory and reducing the risk of overproduction, we offer a practical solution that optimizes efficiency and helps businesses thrive.
METAL printing
The Metal X 3D printer creates fully functional, real metal parts –prototypes and end-use parts alike – with capabilities that allow for complex geometric designs that can’t be machined. Combined with post-processing tools such as mills, welding, and drills, we can integrate precision metal into your prototyping process.
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3d printing
3D printing allows for the creation of parts that couldn’t be made by any other means. Produce a cost-efficient model that creates a real visualization of the size and feel of your product. This is especially useful for early concept user testing as it ensures a more refined finished product.
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advanced manufacturing
CNC machines enable repeatability, replication, and consistency which are all critical benefits when making design iterations and small production runs. Our carefully curated list of machines ensures we can quickly fabricate your functional prototype, machine parts and components in a variety of materials and finishes.
ADVANCED MANUFACTURING EQUIPMENT >
Electronics: Design & Fabrication
We have a robotics and electronics designer ready to assist clients with their smart device, IoT, and electronics prototypes. We have the ability to mill, soldered, and assemble boards to conduct basic functional analysis, prior to testing and certification. We use off the shelf components to reduce risk and debug your design for an inexpensive and quick way to identify design challenges and iterate to solve them.
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Low volume production
InDro Forge specializes in low volume production, prioritizing meticulous attention to detail and customization. This ensures that each item meets specific quality standards, making it cost-effective for small businesses and industries with fluctuating demand. By minimizing excess inventory and reducing the risk of overproduction, we offer a practical solution that optimizes efficiency and helps businesses thrive.
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Expertise and Technical Capabilities
Bayview Yards is home to a unique ecosystem of programs and services built to turn ideas into growing companies. The lab is outfitted with the expertise, capabilities, and equipment to adhere to any project’s detailed specifications and requirements. We have everything you need to move your business forward, faster.
our talented team
Every product that changed the world has a story that began somewhere – our mission is to be that somewhere. As the experts in the early stages of product development, we help innovators design, build, and launch tangible prototypes that evolve into the products of the future.
Joel Koscielski
Senior Manager, Design & Fabrication
Within the role of Senior Manager of Design and Fabrication, Joel manages a cross-functional team to collaborate with clients to overcome challenges through the ideation, formal design, evaluation, and prototype manufacturing stages along the prototyping journey. Joel brings a decade of experience within the medical device development space within a wide range of engineering and manufacturing positions. With a strong theoretical and hands-on approach, Joel ensures products delivered by the team effectively meet our client’s unique needs, including supporting drawings, design evaluation reports, or assembly/maintenance manuals. Not afraid to get his hands dirty, operating the full range of shop equipment to get things done will help ensure there are always enough hands to get things done on time and to client specifications. He is passionate about out-of-the-box thinking, continuous improvement, and building a world-class team to help the Ottawa of tomorrow be the best that it can be.
When Joel is not working in the Lab, he dedicates his time to mentoring the youth of tomorrow through educational robotics programs, both as a volunteer at local events and as a mentor. This dedication even resulted in the founding of a new non-profit, Ottawa Community Education Robotics Association (OCERA), to help bring more STEM education to youth across the city. In the gaps between this you’ll find him cooking up a storm or using his own 3D printer to improve his house in any way he can find.
Favourite Tools: Haas VF1 CNC, Markforged Metal X
Pablo arzate
Industrial Designer
Pablo is our Industrial Designer. He has experience designing products for healthcare, science, and fashion and other consumer product industries. His design technique is based strongly on collaboration and experimentation. Pablo’s creative and technical skills shine when designing for additive manufacturing especially when approached in rapid prototyping cycles.
Pablo’s experience can help you bring your ideas to life. He’ll work with you to select the best technology to manufacture your product through 3D printing and other exceptional prototyping Lab capabilities.
On the side, Pablo is a drone hobbyist, designing and manufacturing lightweight UAV’s. He also provides jewelry brands with unique custom 3D model collections and even has a company of his own.
Favourite tools: Fortus and Formlabs Printers
Tom O'Leary
Fabrication Shop Technician, and Machine Operator
Tom is our Fabrication Shop Technician & Machine Operator. His background is in mechanical assembly and fabrication; he spent many years on an assembly line building truck-mounted auxiliary power units. Tom then specialized as the operator of robotic welding systems at a local metal fabrication plant. In addition, Tom has spent nearly a decade working in the film industry, building sets and working with a special effects crew.
When not in the shop, Tom uses discarded devices, found objects, and other shiny materials to create scrap metal sculptures. An example of his work, Climbing Cliff, can be seen hanging above the red staircase at the front entrance of Bayview Yards.
Favourite tool: Omax Waterjet
Wherever you are along your journey, we’re here to help.
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7 Bayview Station Road
Ottawa, ON K1Y 2C5
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