The Evolution of Design-Led Manufacturing
“We will focus our efforts and budgets on product design and outsource manufacturing to the experts” This has been the default strategy for tech OEMs since the 1980s when Solectron, Flex, and Jabil saw an opportunity to support tech OEMs with shared manufacturing capacity. Electronic Manufacturing Services (EMS) is now a $150b global industry however the strategy that delivered lower capital investments is evolving again because products are now Smart and competing in the era of Internet of Everything.
Consumer products have been quite binary for many years, you only have to think of department stores to see it - domestic appliances in the basement, computers and screen-based tech on the top floor; mechanical & electronic vs hardware & software, buttons and switches vs keyboards and screens. Products can now be all of these though, they're smart and connected too; smart cars, smart homes, lawnmowers, vacuum cleaners, audio speakers, cameras, phones... Smart products are sensing and interacting with us, sharing data, and self-healing through ultra-edge computing. That massively increased complexity is stretching the relationship between in-house design and outsourced manufacturing.
Change is rapid but every innovative product company knows something that isn't changing. Product designers are not just creative and manufacturers are not just efficient. Great manufacturing partners are not just suppliers, they are extensions of your product design capabilities. If they're collaborative, they're exponentially productive, especially as the products evolve around us.
Mechatronics is the discipline that integrates electrical, computer, connectivity, and mechanical processes into all smart products and the manufacturing expertise required is creating huge opportunities through this integration. Partnership is even more critical because innovation is not confined to your design team
At Microtronics we have championed the past decade of mechatronics and are ever-increasing our design services for our clients. Whilst we already excel in design for excellence providing test, supply chain, manufacturing, and quality solutions we are now increasing our investments in product design adding experience resources in embedded and mechatronics systems. “Let’s let our customer partners invest and win in Software, Data, UI, and UX and let’s provide them with product design solutions that accelerate products to market at a cost and quality that continues their brand leadership status
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We listen carefully, collaborate and contribute to winning products with our innovative ideas and solutions that bring firmware, hardware, and connectivity solutions to the design table. On design lock down we then execute our product development projects in the fastest time through NPI and into volume in the most frictionless fashion owning quality through the cycle.
We are excited about the future where we contribute more design solutions to our leading brand customers.