We minimize your risk by taking a holistic approach to product development; not just product design, or just engineering, but all steps of the development process from front end research to manufacturing coordination.
Due to the synergy and seamless integration of our design and engineering staff, our greatest successes come when we can take a project through the entire process, from concept to manufacturing. We can also help you with any combination of the following steps of our process and add value to your end result, regardless of the current phase of your product development.
How do you launch a new product? What issues need to be considered before jumping into development? Whether this is your first product or 100th, we can guide you in areas of new product strategy that can position you at the top of your market.
What do your customers need? Do they even know they need it? We use front end research to help you determine the unmet needs of your customers, then give them exactly what solves their problems before your competitors catch on. Identifying those opportunities for development is critical, so we start by observing people in their everyday tasks and listen to their frustrations. We then brainstorm solutions for those frustrations using ideas from various applicable markets, technology, and our own completely new innovations. All with a speed and thoroughness unmatched in our industry so that you can stay ahead of the pack.
Once the great ideas for solutions are developed, what will the physical embodiment be? We are experts of visual communication; we communicate the ideas and solutions to customer problems with sketches, concept breadboard models, proof-of-concept models, prototypes and renderings that will inspire your target users, distributors and other stakeholders and enable your management team, your suppliers, and your focus groups to make better decisions and provide you with more meaningful information.
The second part of setting the design direction involves market confirmation of the best solutions developed. Concept solutions that survive this stage are viable and complete, with clear paths to production and commercialization.
Once the design direction is set our engineers take a lead role in determining functional specifications and making cost and function optimizations. Since they've been part of the project from the start, there are no problems with the traditional transition and information exchanges from designers to engineers that slows down development.
We've developed products to withstand the most grueling environmental conditions, we've created complex mechanisms with several dozen moving parts, and we've optimized products to remove every unnecessary cent from the manufacturing cost. Our clients choose us because we do all this with an uncommon efficiency and speed, saving you time and money.
We work with qualified manufacturers, yours or ours, foreign or domestic, that provide estimates of tooling capital and production costs so that you can fully evaluate your project from a return-on-investment standpoint.
Furthermore, on commodity products produced in Asia, we have developed an approach to development release called "Design for Asia" (DFA). In this method, we take the prototype and design process only up to the point where the engineering direction is clearly set, but the final engineering details are executed by an Asian manufacturer. By balancing our design process for these types of programs, we are able to save you significant development costs, while maintaining control of your development program.
From product testing plans to FDA audits, we can help you with pre-production aspects of your product launch: