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dev2mfg.com Bridging the transition from Development to Manufacturing Introducing Dev2mfg, a full service company dedicated to the orderly transition of newly developed electronic products to the structured world of manufacturing. We provide the technical knowledge, manpower, and organization necessary for that crucial period between the development engineer's first sketches, and the stringent requirements of a contract manufacturer. Our services encompass, but are not limited to:
This same support can be utilized by Contract Manufacturers, who have an inexperienced company requesting to have a prototype, or production product built, but lack the basic, and structured documentation to insure success. We know all phases of the transition from the developer to the manufacturer. And we can provide for a margin of knowledge required for the smooth introduction of the product to Sales department, and ultimately, to the customer. It is not always the best product that eventually gets to the customer, it generally is the first to the finish line. What could be more frustrating then spending enormous sums of capital/manpower/time creating that something special, only to find that the introduction to the manufacturer is slowed by the requirement of the developer to also act as the manufacturing integrator. Wouldn't you rather have that developer spending his time on what they are most effectively providing you. Is your product development out-sourced and your in-house development team comprised of program managers. This certainly is happening more often now. The same way as product manufacturing has moved to competent and well trained Contract Manufacturers, so it seems that development is also being moved to specialized development companies. It has all come to cost, and time to market. The problem still to be addressed is the Contract Engineering company may not have the manufacturing interface resources to pass the finished product, to the selected Contract Manufacturer. The Development program manager may not have the time, or breadth of knowledge to extract, and distill the supplied documentation. Has you company grown to the point it needs data base control and management systems. All Dev2Mfg team members have participated in the selection, implementation and maintenance of ERP and CRM (customer relationship mgt) systems. In addition,we have created in-house quality audit systems allowing for in-process control, vendor quality mgt, etc. For smaller companies or those with limited budgets, we have the capability to develop MS Office databases in Access that can link with QuickBooks, enabling functional interfacing between finance and materials and manufacturing. Our team members have developed such a product for a medical equipment manufacturer that grew to over $9.5mm in two years using Access for customer order input, backlog reporting, manufacturing orders, purchase orders and inventory management. We have augmented Access based engineering documentation systems for companies growing to 26 million in three years. These system cost very little in comparison to larger ERP packages, and was tailored specifically to the company. Ask us today how we can provide this low cost, effective, information system for you. Our Experienced staff can help you in all phases of transition you have put off to the last second. We can assist, or set up a complete engineering documentation system, part numbers and all. We can take that rough sketch, and produce a schematic. Create a PCB database. Assist in the transition to the Contract Manufacturer. We have collectively built products at a number of local CM's as well as off shore manufacturers. We understand the necessity of test fixtures, how to aid in the testing. Our experience also covers the customer interface, be it a sole user or OEM requiring the total support and dedication of a project engineer. |
Staff bios follow: Administration - Vernon Hasz 20+ years of hands on leadership and management in the fields of development engineering and manufacturing PCB layout services - Roseanne Lalonde 20+ years in PCB Design service specializing in high-density digital PCB designs. Product Managing - Sidney Johnston 15+ years with Product and Project Management, Technical Support, Facilitator. Process Manufacturing Engineer - Linda Foster-Dennis 15+ years experience involved in all aspects of manufacturing setup & assembly Account, process managing -Bill Segesser Bill Segesser has over 20 years experience in customer account development, supply chain management, manufacturing, information systems, and operations. Configuration, Data Management -Wendy Reynolds Over fifteen years experience controlling, releasing, improving and managing engineering documentation ::vernhasz@dev2mfg.com:: |