If you’re just getting started in the product design process, it can seem far off.
You might be looking for a design firm now and thinking that you’ll find the right manufacturing partner later.
But design has a long tail: decisions made at the design stage must be informed by the manufacturing strategy.
Failing to account for this can be the difference between whether your product succeeds or fails.
Here’s what you need to consider.
NextGetting a manufacturer excited about your product is a massive and often underestimated factor in your success. Ultimately, like most things in business, it comes down to relationships. It pays to have someone in your corner who has built those relationships with multiple vendors and has the ongoing business volume to support them.
Key considerations:
Cash is king – but quality is the vehicle to that cash when finished products start to ship. Avoiding quality issues in the manufacturing process is the best way to drive the precious market resonance you need. If your product breaks on arrival, or soon after, solving other problems is like rearranging deck chairs on the titanic.
Key considerations:
You already know how to do this, don’t you? Negotiate the lowest possible cost at the highest possible quality. Done.
This approach does not work. It only emphasizes one stakeholder’s priorities: yours. Making this equation matter for all stakeholders is essential to the success of the product. That includes you, your manufacturing partner, and your customers.
Key considerations:
We know your product better than anyone.
Great design requires great manufacturing. It requires intimate knowledge and appreciation for your product to maintain the integrity of the quality and standards that goes into every piece that is made.
We work with our injection molding, die casting, metal stamping and forming, PCB and PCBA partners to ensure production vision and quality are maintained. Quality audits and close communication help ensure our partners meet the assembly criteria specifications. We source partners that help bring down costs while adding value.
Cortex Design offers low-volume manufacturing services in the heart of Toronto. Our off-site production facility is optimized size to support small-batch production and assembly, providing a robust workflow for your initial production run to bring your product to market. We then implement additive technologies and optimized manufacturing to adjust for incrementally larger batch sizes, ramping up to mass production.
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