From Concept Sketch to Tested Success
Product
- Industrial Field Measurement Unit
Market
- Industrial Electronics
Lifecycle Stages
- From total ‘ground up’ product re-design through contract manufacturing
Key Challenges
- Core functional components of the customer’s existing product had not changed for many years
- Complete re-design was urgently needed to keep up with emerging competition. Product had to:
- Be in compliance with applicable global standards
- Meet the latest applicable industry test requirements
- Be lightweight, compact, rugged and highly portable
- Be manufactured at a cost that would yield competitive pricing
Enercon Solutions
- Enercon was given full, turnkey responsibility and complete freedom to develop a comprehensive, integrated contract manufacturing solution:
- Designed new product from a loose concept sketch
- Wrote detailed engineering specifications, including user-interface requirements
- Handled prototyping and product performance verification
- Produced electrical, mechanical hardware, firmware, and software design (including remote application compatible with Microsoft Windows) as well as product packaging
- Launched production and seamlessly handled direct delivery of product with customer’s identity
Results
Using Enercon as its virtual product development and manufacturing division, customer has successfully refreshed this major offering of its product line without adding significant overhead costs.