The Race to Market – Accelerating Timelines for Customers
Medical Device Industry’s Most Pressing Challenges and How To Solve Them (A four-part series from Mikron COO, Rolf Rihs)?Part 3: The Race To Market
In the medical device industry, time to market is crucial to gaining a competitive advantage, and the pace of development is ever-increasing. To keep up, manufacturers need new ways to make time savings.?Rolf Rihs, COO Mikron Automation, explains, “In the past, our partners developed a device, then tested it, then sourced an assembly system. ?To cut the time to market, we can parallelize the final development of the product and the building of the assembly system, and help our customers gain speed.”
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At the same time, the growing demand for more complex products means that manufacturers require larger assembly programmes than ever - often with two or more assembly lines in parallel! ?Mikron meets the needs of the largest programmes in the shortest time frame by leveraging the capacity of the entire company, across its global sites. Mikron utilizes its engineering teams around the world to provide additional support and expertise. This collaboration between sites creates and effective ecosystem when creating timelines for customers. Similarly, Mikron’s internal network for manufacturing sites can allow it to construct sub-systems or complete lines in parallel.
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Another way to save time downstream is to avoid mistakes and optimize designs from their conception. Mikron brings to the table 50 years of assembly experience to advise its customers on how to best design their products for manufacturing. “Pre-Production Services” is the suite of engineering support and product develop support services that Mikron can provide its partners.??Providing support in the form of design for manufacturing and design for assembly analyses or manufacturing process development allows Mikon’s customers to tap into its experience and de-risk OEM’s manufacturing programs.?Identifying risk and mitigating them at the onset of the project allows Mikron to avoid changes in the middle of program that tend to have negative impact on costs and timeline. “The assembly system is a vital piece of the product launch,” says Rihs. “Mikron has done a very good job over the years and proven to our customers that we have the experience and are here for them when they need us.”
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