Continuous Innovation within the Supply Chain
Manufacturing Expertiese
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Sourcing Audit & Supplier Selection
We conduct comprehensive sourcing audits and assist in selecting the best suppliers, ensuring optimal alignment with your manufacturing needs and standards.
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Contractual Terms & Commercial Risk Management
Our expertise includes negotiating favorable contractual terms and managing commercial risks to protect your interests in every manufacturing agreement.
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Supplier Bring-up/Readiness
We prepare your suppliers to meet production demands efficiently, from initial setup to full operational status, ensuring they are fully capable of meeting your specifications.
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Production Documentation
We help define and audit production documentation requirements to ensure all manufacturing processes are well-documented and meet regulatory compliance.
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Production Control Mechanisms
Our services include defining and auditing production control mechanisms to optimize manufacturing efficiency and product quality.
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Quality Assurance/Inspection Requirements & Implementation
We establish and implement stringent quality assurance and inspection protocols to maintain high standards throughout the production lifecycle.
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Production Line & Product Qualification
We oversee the qualification of production lines and products to confirm that all output meets your precise quality and functional requirements.
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Expertise in Diverse Manufacturing Areas
Our extensive knowledge spans a variety of manufacturing disciplines, enabling us to provide tailored solutions that drive success in complex production environments.
Business Scan - find what you need
The business ‘scan’ provides a comprehensive overview of where to focus attention for the greatest benefit
Focussed on Tools, Processes and People we evaluate performance and identify opportunities.
Through a series of interviews and reviews we will assess the fundamental requirements for a business to operate a successful hardware division. This is then compared and contrasted to the brand and longer-term strategy of the business, in order to provide an objective and prioritised list of recommendations.
Benefits
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Control and de-risk Hardware Investment.
Put your cash in the right place. Focussed and decisive product development and industrialisation
Reduced Cost of Quality.
For inefficient Hardware organisations this can represent 15%+ of Revenue
Lean Methodology, pragmatic application.
Lightweight-build for what your business needs, not more.
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Products that represent.
What does your brand stand for & how is this reflected by hardware?
VOC at the forefront.
Turning Customer Opinion into future Development goals
Collaborative Product Journeys
Infrastructure that secures a ‘perfect’ launch through Sales and Marketing channels
Sustainability in practice.
Always doing ‘the best we can’ in the context of the wider business scope and needs.
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Validation and Verification.
Knowing your product is ‘right’ before it hits the market
Compliance and certifications
Costly mistakes, avoided by rugged interrogation of target markets and implementation of key frameworks i.e. ISO 9001.
Repair and Warranty
Sustainable, but also ‘mandatory’ requirements to maintain market access.
CI (Continuous Improvement)
Never satisfied, never sitting still. Always looking for opportunities to improve.
Lessons Learned.
Structuring how we capture mistakes of the past, to avoid them in the future
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Lean Development
Rapid iteration to get to the MVP in the shortest possible timeframe
Structured flexibility & creativity
Both are critical to the success of a project, both can also be the death of a project.
Gateway based framework
Automotive-derived methodology, tailored to your business. Ensures strong risk management, collaboration and on-time delivery.