Simplify or Cost Reduce Your Existing Product

Does the bill of materials cost of your product need to be 10 – 50% lower to be successful in the market? Does your product have too many parts? Would you like to improve your margins with a simpler design? Simplifying products is a core competency for us (so much, that we named our whole company after it)!

A few examples of where we’ve simplified products for our clients include:

• Reducing the number of unique parts from 22 to 9 and reducing the complexity/cost of the injection molding tools in the Senaptec Strobe Eyewear.
• Reducing the PCA board area to only 7% of the original demonstration prototype to allow it to fit into the size of a AA battery (to create a Forever Battery).
• Noise reduction, weight reduction, and cost reduction in automated point-of-care disinfection device, Sterifre Medical AURA.
• Achieved a 50% cost reduction for a confidential connected consumer product.  Also, by updating the gear ratio for the system and correcting the motor drive algorithms, we reduced the motor temperature rise from 80 deg F to only 8 deg F, eliminating a potential safety issue.

Additional content about Product Simplification and Cost Reduction you may be interested in:

• Simplexity’s 7 Steps to Simplification
• Senaptec Strobe: A Study in Simplification
• If I Could Only Do 3 Things to Simplify a Design, What Should They Be?
• Robust Firmware Stack Sizing

Next Steps: please contact us to let us know your simplification and cost reduction goals.  Once we better understand your needs, we’ll be able to advise how much of a simplification or cost reduction could be possible.