With time to market issues being so critical, pre-manufacturing services have become a major influence on the ultimate success of your product.
由于入市時間問題十分關鍵,因此制造前服務對產品取得最終成功發揮著重要的影響作用。
How much cost impact can you have by getting the product right for manufacturing from the very outset?
最開始的生產前準備對成本會有多大影響?
This is hard to quantify exactly. I would suggest however that the savings can be significant.
這很難給出一個具體數目。但我可以說,我們節省了很大成本。
Again, if you consider the value of the benefits I mentioned previously,
如果你考慮到我之前提及的那些益處所具備的價值
reduced cost of materials due to fewer proto spins, reduced design and development time, reduced time for debugging,
這些益處包括:因原型旋轉數減少而降低的材料成本、設計和開發時間及調試時間縮短
reduced manufacturing set-up costs, and ultimately a quicker time to market, then you would have to agree that there is a major cost impact.
生產啟動成本減少及最終的入市速度提高,你就得贊同我的觀點,認為其中的確存在重大的成本影響力。
It will of course vary by product and customer,and not all prototypes necessarily benefit from our approach.
當然,因產品和客戶不同。我們的方法并非對所有原型有益。
For example, if you are simply changing a few parts on an existing board, we consider that rev roll and it should be done by your current production house.
例如, 如果你只是在現有的電路板上更換了一些零部件,那么我們認為這并無多大用處,這項工作應該由你們現在的生產機構來完成。
Given that products have smaller and smaller market windows, it must be very important to accelerate the speed at which a product can get into production.
如果產品的市場窗□越來越小,那么就很有必要加快產品投產速度。
How can you improve this process?
你們是如何改進這一流程的呢?
It’s all about execution! We are very focused as this is all we do for a living
這完全靠執行!我們在這方面十分專注,因為這是我們謀生的途徑。
and now have 10 years worth of processes and procedures put in place which has made us rather good at this role.
目前,我們有效地運用了10年來積累的諸多工藝和流程,這使我們非常出色地完成了這項任務。
Due to our size and experience we are able to be more flexible and act more nimbly than most other larger companies.
由于我們具備一定的規模和經驗,因此我們更加自由,行動起來要比許多其他大型公司更加靈活。
For example, we are willing and able to implement an ECO based on an email or fax request from someone authorized at our customer.
例如,我們樂于并且也能夠按照客戶方主管的要求,以電子郵件或傳真的形式執行設計變動命令 (ECO)。
We don’t require a formal ECO process that serves no other purpose than to delay the build.
我們不需要正式的設計變動命令流程,這種命令只會延誤生產。