ProWorks :: Product Realization Services

ADVANCED PRODUCT REALIZATION SERVICES

Product realization is the process by which products are conceived, designed, produced, marketed and eventually discharged. Our goal is to partner with customers throughout a product’s design, development and production phases in order to achieve a scalable, high quality, cost efficient product and process from inception, through production and into the end of its product life cycle.

Partner with customers - It is a partnership effort between multiple stakeholders on both sides throughout a product’s design, development and production phases – “early and often” involvement is needed to influence decisions which impact the future and often are ‘expensive’ to change, [Studies show that once a design is released, greater than 80% of its costs is forever fixed]. We often do a DFM Valor analysis multiple times during the design stage as the data/product design becomes more complete and concrete to result in a scalable, high quality, cost efficient product and process from inception, through production and into EOL. - doing it right from the beginning saves time, money, and frustration in all lifecycle phases.

This Product Realization Process focuses across many dimensions and within each area there are multiple points of emphasis. Examples include:

Manufacturing
- Process routing
- Design for assembly (PCBA): use of tools such as Valor and CAM 350
- Design for assembly (Mechanicals, Enclosures, etc…)
- Component selection – reliability perspective, manufacturability issues
- Takt/Assembly time
- Post build DFMs based off of data. ProWorks captures process data from both assembly equipment (Eg. stencil printer, solder paste measurement machine, pick and place, IR oven) and test equipment (eg AXI, and AOI). We can correlate quality findings and analyze them by process, by date, by reference designator, by customer, by job number, etc. This enables us to identify root cause based on data and make recommendations based on the same.
- Cost reduction/cost avoidance
Testing
- Design for test
  - Type of tests used, cycle times, coverage (AXI, AOI, functional, system, thermal, …)
  - Schematic review for pull-ups, disabling pins, tying to ground, JTAG chains
  - Location/spacing of test points and pads
- Automated versus manual test scripts
- Go/No-Go versus vs. variable data/detailed feedback
Quality
- Data collection
- Reporting
- Analyses
Materials Selection / Materials Strategy
- BOM cleansing - valid manufacturer part numbers and manufacturer names
- BOM grading - including component life-cycle status
- Component availability and lead time analyses
- RoHS issues
- Avoidance of NCNR items
- Cost reduction
Supply Chain Strategy
- Component selection – second sourcing
- Distributor vs. direct
- Leverage use of VMI program
- Soft tooling , hard tooling

The unifying concept is that we strive to optimize across all these dimensions at the same time, rather than optimize one at the expense of the others. Using DFM tools such as Valor® and CAM350®, supply chain tools such as Haven, data acquisition and quality reporting tools such as Rhythm, our experienced team delivers implementable and ROI based solutions to our customers.

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