Product Development & Design

Protronica's expert design and development services back up our manufacturing services. We approach design and development with an eye to production engineering, creating working products from designs and then supporting your product throughout its entire life cycle.

And you decide when to bring Protronica into that life cycle. We're flexible. We can provide significant help at a number of different points:

• Product design
• Cost-reduction engineering
• Manufacturing process design
• Test development
• Product remodeling
• Overcoming component obsolescence
• Electronic design & PCB layout

Cost-reduction engineering

When 70 to 80 percent of your costs are fixed during product development, you need to take full advantage of cost-reduction engineering during this vital stage. Opportunities for cost-reduction engineering in development exist through both Design-for-Manufacturing and Design-for-Supply Chain processes to eliminate unnecessary costs.

Protronica engineers for cost reduction in the development stage and once your product is in manufacture via these methods:

• Bill of materials optimization, component count reduction, use of preferred suppliers, use of common components and selecting components with the minimum necessary specifications to meet requirements
• Design & process modifications targeted at optimization of manufacturing yields
• Design & process modifications targeted at optimization of manufacturing throughput
• Balancing the cost of manufacturing verses the cost of production tooling.
• Consideration of family tools for the production of small-volume plastic parts
• Consideration of stacked molds to increase production efficiency for high volume plastic parts