Product Cost Consultancy Service
We will examine your product and advise on cost savings compared with your existing costs. If we do not find any savings there is no charge for the service.
Outsourcing - A Total Package
When all costs are taken into account it is often more cost effective to use a specialist subcontractor for activities that are not part of a company's critical activities. We can help with the economic assessment of when to make or buy. Factors such as the opportunity cost of management's time in managing in house activities must be accounted for in a true analysis of establishing what it costs to make in house. We understand the issues having experience of assembling complete product, see
Paper Roll Length Meter Case Study
Technical Advice
The correct use of materials and production processes is fundamental to reducing manufacturing cost. See the
Technical Advice page for more details.
Short Lead Time Supply Reducing supply chain stock and producing in the most economical batch size is a trade off you need to get right. See our approach to this on our
Short Lead Time Supply page.
Fast Track Prototype Production Getting your product to market quickly may be crucial in profiting from its innovations before competitors catch up. We can help with
Rapid Prototypes in metal and plastic using
Plastic Manumolding and Photochemical Etching
processes
Plastic Components
Group Designers
Design Advice from CAD to CAM We can offer to reverse engineer components such as obsolete spare parts. We can also develop accurate designs from 'thumb nail' sketches. See the
Design and Build page for more details.
Assembly We can assemble your low volume product subject to size limitations. This removes the burden of the actual assembly activity, the co-ordination of shop floor manpower, the responsibility for purchasing parts and even testing of the product. Many manufacturers have found they are unable to do this in house for less than a specialist sub contractor charges.
