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Your extended sourcing team in Asia
The Right Partner, When Your Brand Needs It
After 100s of design and development projects, the biggest hurdle to our market success was finding appropriate manufacturing partners. We set out to solve this for our design and engineering subscribers. The uncomfortable truth is there is no easy way to recommend a partner. Sorting through directories, identifying, assessing, and engaging with the right quality supplier who offers the most economical value, is a herculean task. We make it easier for you to strike the perfect deal.
Structured for Every Innovator
No Contracts. No Hiring. Fixed Monthly Rate. No Hidden Costs or Surprise Fees. Scale Up or Down to your comfort.
Vetted and
Trusted
Battle-tested Design professionals, with the best tools to create compelling form and design, and strategy
Get Boots on the
Ground
Things go wrong in manufacturing all the time. Consistent oversight can avoid preventable mistakes. Put out fires when they do happen before they get big.
Seamless transition from Product
Leverage our product engineering expertise to support in both validation and root cause analysis for issue resolution.
Trusted by Partners and Brands
Who We Serve
E-Commerce Sellers
Looking to source specific SKUs from India? We will find the resources to do a full build. Or manage updates and derivatives with your current ODM.
D2C Brands
Need to update design, find a new factory, or relocate manufacturing, we have you covered.
Technology Brands
Transitioning from hardware and firmware to full product builds? We can help you fill the gaps.
Manufacturing processes
We have a long history with Injection Moulding, Die Casting, forming; machining,, extrusions; and now also induction coils, metal injection moulding, and hardware assembly
Key Solutions
Depending on where you are on your production journey, you can leverage
Validation Before Production
Prior to production, our Product Engineering Practice Teams validate the performance specifications through rigorous reliability testing with partner labs. We manage
all critical workflows with the factory leading up to creating efficient manufacturing lines. At each phase of testing, we provide a risk-mitigation plan before moving forward.
- Background checks
- Manufacturing capabilities
- Quality system auditing
- Engineering resources
- Pricing, negotiation, & contracts
If you are already a subscriber to our product engineering service, you do not have to subscribe for this in addition.
Supply Chain Discovery
New Factory Identification: Typically takes 3-4 working days – is more than browsing and sending emails. We find you the qualified export-ready suppliers or component sources for your needs from the most relevant directories and our own network of manufacturers in India and China.
Supplier Background Check: fact-checking and confirming that they’re a legitimate manufacturer who can produce your order. Typically takes 4-5 working days.
Shared Supplier Management: Close contact with suppliers, in their language, as well as their preferred communication tools (Whatsapp, Wechat, QQ), to manage your projects and orders in the future.
Supplier Performance Liaison
Liaison for Root Cause Analysis: This is an offshoot of our Product Engineering Practice. We report in detail using the most appropriate medium – visuals, comments, or spreadsheets.
Enabling Supplier Self-Inspection
- Define and describe the problem
- Identify, describe, and verify root causes
- Corrective action plan
- Implementation and validate corrective actions
- Take preventive measures
- Review inspection plans, quality standards, checklists, necessary equipment and procedures.
Factory Audits
Initial Factory Evaluation: Get a report of Factory profile, products in production, audit of one production line with process steps, type and number of machines; quality system, working environment, and equipment condition; photographs of the factory building, production workshop, warehouse, office area, and of business license, export license, and any certificates.
Quality Systems Audit: In addition to above, internal QC activities, use of data for fixing issues, work instructions.
Supplier Performance Liaison
First Article and Product Inspections
- Random Inspection: check quantity and average quality (including packing) before shipment. This is the most common type of inspection.
- In Production Inspection: check quality before many pieces are completed, to get an early warning signals.
- Full Production Check: after an order is completed, have 100% of the products checked.
- Production Monitoring & Reporting: set a program of visits for monitoring both product quality and production progress.
Compliance Testing Liaison: We have broad experience of working on compliance validation on production batches. We analyze regulations from the USA, the European Union, Canada, and Australia.
Quality Assurance Consulting: Is a mix of on-site work with the manufacturers’ staff, and office work for following up, and reviewing documents and videos.
Why work with us ?
Get sourcing expertise for less than $625/week
Starts at
$2999/mo
$2499/mo
125h
- Total transparency to your supply chain partners
- In house Product Design and Development Engineering teams for quality, safety, reliability & durability considerations as well as quick issue resolution
- Our fees are for advisory and support, and not connected to production volumes and order sizes.
- No lock-in: You work with us month to month.
- Deep experience in manufacturing parts for consumer electronics, rugged computing, and electro-mechanical products.
- Unlimited Projects and Requests. Truly no limit to changes and strategy and product pivots.
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