• Cost Effective Resource for Engineering and Operations
  
  Risk reduction -- Investigating alternate component technologies and suppliers results in significant decrease of failed or unavailable components
  
  
  
  
• Cost reduction -- COGS improvement through enhanced component strategies
  
  
• Product Improvement -- Help insure smooth new product introduction, often as part of early stage new product design reviews
  
  
• Time Savings -- Component database and documentation improvement significantly reduces wasted effort by your engineering and operations personnel
  
  Our examination of alternate component technologies and suppliers can lower cost of goods sold by 10 to 15%, and, at the same time, significantly reduce risk by insuring component availability, reliability, and performance.  An external viewpoint can often provide an important unbiased perspective. We offer:
  
  
• Extensive experience in technical and business relationships with manufacturers and distributors.  We are well versed in developing partnerships with suppliers that reduce costs and ongoing maintenance efforts.  We have a thorough understanding of the needs of engineering, production, purchasing, suppliers, and distributors - with the ability to refine, simplify, and clarify aspects of complex components.
  
  
• Risk reduction that can have substantial benefits.  If one component is found that is destined to cause a field return, or a general product recall - how much is that worth?
  
  
• Value – Savings of reduced COGS and lessening of maintenance efforts can considerably exceeds fees.  Risk reduction, that can potentially save hundreds of thousands of dollars each year, is then free.
  
  
• A comprehensive knowledge of the entire product development process, from initial specification to manufacturing implementation.   In-depth knowledge of digital, analog, and power technologies due to extensive design experience.
  
  
• We can also provide:
  
  Component & supplier qualification strategy review
  
  Obsolete component analysis
  
  Product engineering change order (ECO) process assistance
  
  Component change notice tracking
  
  Investigation of problem components & failure analysis
  
  Strategic component roadmaps