The final step in realizing your new product is to actually build it and deliver it to its point of sale. This is the last in a long series of actions culminating in actually making a product you can sell. It is the moment when your investment can finally start paying returns.
In preparation for taking the product into production, we maintain partnerships with a wide array of organizations that handle Manufacturing Planning and Quality Planning, as well as the actual manufacture and assembly of the finished product.
Our network of Manufacturing Planning Specialists plan out the details of production lines and manufacturing processes, as well as those of the supply chain to support production. These Specialists work in collaboration with the Product Engineers to ensure that appropriate manufacturing processes are paired to the manufacture of each component, as well as to subassemblies and the final assembly, so that the specified product tolerances can be met with high capability.
These Specialists (often Manufacturing Engineers) also use the Process FMEA approach (PFMEA) to undertake assessments of risks associated with the manufacturing processes and subsequently mitigate these risks using appropriate countermeasures, thereby maximizing the likelihood of producing high quality products.
Other documents these Specialists may provide include Process Flows, Work Instructions, and Visual Aids.
Our network of Quality Specialists (Engineers and Technicians) develop the necessary plans for start–up and long–term quality assurance and control. These Specialists work hand–in–hand with the Product Engineers and the Manufacturing Specialists to ensure coherence between the design, the manufacturing processes, and QA measures. Their goal is to use easily verifiable means to get production up and running stably, and to ensure the final product continues to meet design intent year after year. These Quality Specialists will set up the appropriate process documentation, including such tools as Control Plans, Inspection Guides, Inspection Reports, and so forth.
Through our broad network of Contract Manufacturing Organizations (CMOs), we can readily match up clients with a CMO having the necessary manufacturing capabilities to reliably produce the new product's design.
Though we are networked with a large number of capable contract manufacturers, we do not manage these relationships for the client. The client will manage their relationship with the CMO directly. This ensures the overall production-management process remains as streamlined as possible.
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