Commercial Equipment
Simplexity defines commercial products as equipment that our clients sell to other businesses or use themselves as a part of their core technology. Simplexity’s commercial products often incorporate precision motion, sensing, and advanced process controls. Clients benefit from Simplexity’s expertise in high-volume custom manufacturing to receive cost-effective and reliable designs versus what is possible when only integrating off-the-shelf components.
UNIQUE CHALLENGES
Commercial product development offers a unique set of challenges. Clients in this space come to Simplexity when they are looking for:
- Cost reduction. Depending on the anticipated installed base and complexity of a machine, Simplexity may have the opportunity to enable significant cost savings through higher integration to reduce the bill of materials part count, or through the replacement of expensive, overdesigned components with a simplified custom design.
- Improved reliability and serviceability. Making repairs to equipment that failed in the field is expensive, both in terms of labor and replacement parts. Clients often ask Simplexity to find robust replacements for motors or sensors that are working unreliably in their operating environment.
- New design of a product. The best way to develop a cost-effective product is to start with a simple design in the first place. Clients seek out Simplexity while still formulating the design for a product to help them identify a product architecture that will yield a simple and reliable product once it goes into manufacturing.
SIMPLEXITY'S PRIORITIES FOR MACHINE DESIGN
As product realization experts, our priority is to work collaboratively with our clients to meet both the technical and business goals of a new product. Our team commonly augments the client's core expertise, enabling rapid transformation of benchtop concepts to finished products. Together, we comprise an expert product development team, continually focused on project priorities like:
- Product performance
- Device and consumable cost
- Design manufacturability
- Intuitive, safe, and reliable operation
- Time to market
- Development cost
SIMPLEXITY’S CAPABILITIES AND EXPERTISE
As an engineering and technology-focused design company, our goal is to create the best design team of mechanical, electrical, firmware, and software engineers and technicians in the industry around the core competencies of commercial product development and design. By applying past expertise and our tried-and-true product development process, we help clients with:
- Design for reliability, testability, usability, and manufacturability
- User experience design and workflow analysis
- Liquid handling and pump systems
- Sensor development
- Motors, actuators, and control
- Integrated sensors and electronics
- Displays
- Power supplies
- Test and assembly automations
- Precision temperature control
- Design for manufacturing and assembly (DFMA)
- Interface with contract manufacturing
- Qualifying parts for manufacturing
- First article inspection
- Vendor selection
- Preparing detailed a bill of materials (BOM) for procurement of parts for assembly.
- EOL (end-of-line) and mid-line testing tools and processes.
- Quality assurance testing: accelerated life, HALT, and STRIFE
- Product Validation
From complex robotic handling systems to custom kiosks, Simplexity has the capabilities and experience to help you design your commercial product. Through our contract manufacturing partners, we can follow your design through production and successful deployment on the factory floor, laboratory, or retail space.
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