Case Studies

Dentists’ latest dental digital imaging systems utilize a digital sensor to take dental x-rays from inside a patient’s mouth, producing highly detailed digital images that enable dentists to make accurate diagnoses. Unfortunately, these scanners, built in the US and Europe, were priced too high to be sold in the Indian market. We were hired to design a product that delivered a similar capability but at a price point 50% lower, enabling dentists across India to afford one. The client would benefit by ...

As major cities increasingly explore green alternatives to urban gridlock and smog-creating carbon emissions, bike-sharing services, unmanned street corner kiosks holding smart bikes for temporary rental are rapidly gaining popularity, projected to become a $6B global market by 2020. A pioneer in the urban bike-sharing movement sought to custom design a proprietary system for managing their asset inventory worldwide. Challenges A bicycle-sharing system, public bicycle scheme, or public bike share (PBS) scheme is a shared transport service in which bicycles are made available for shared use to ...

The safety products division of a Fortune 100 multinational conglomerate produces a brand line of industrial safety harnesses designed to secure users against falls from bridges, oil rigs, scaffolding, or other elevated work areas. In addition to real-time tracking of this essential equipment, such as assigned user and current location, US OSHA standards require such harnesses to be inspected and re-calibrated regularly. This company pioneered the incorporation of RFID technology into these harness products, with embedded tags programmed with each unit’s ...

Low visibility, tired drivers, and reduced reaction times make nighttime the most dangerous time to work. Making it home in one piece requires vigilance, nerves of steel, and a good-sized set of LED vehicle safety lights. Whether you need lights for your security car, commercial truck lighting, or snowplow lights, protecting yourself with a set of utility work lights for commercial and construction vehicles can significantly increase your visibility and reduce the risk of permanently ending up on the graveyard ...

We set up local supply chains and manufacturing processes to reduce costs for businesses looking to launch their mobile phone antennas in the Indian market. This reduction in manufacturing cost allowed our clients to stay competitive. We have a well-earned reputation for manufacturing high-quality electronics at competitive prices for the automotive, medical, and telecom industries. Challenges A client in the US specializing in large, high-cost antennas wanted to launch their product into the growing but highly competitive Indian market. While the ...

A global concept-to-product camera development services company sought an end-to-end manufacturing solution for the dense assembly of fine pitch camera imaging components, including leadless packages and system-on-module (SOM) for embedded camera modules, USB camera boards, and other specialized imaging uses, including advanced industrial machine vision and other automation applications. Challenges We were tasked to manufacture the client’s products and sub-assemblies in compliance with each camera imaging component’s equipment data package (EDP). Many components required intricate assemblies within small footprints, including ...

A global dental prosthetics maker envisioned a new method for identifying and tracking dentures, from the point of manufacture at the lab to end-use among residents at nursing homes and other care facilities. While 23 US states currently require some form of physical user identification on each denture, compliance has typically been deficient. The reason is that the added costs associated with engraving patient names on the dentures and a user’s typical reluctance to reveal themselves as a denture wearer. In ...

One of our recent clients is an emerging North American startup conceptualizing new uninterruptible power supply (UPS) enclosures, self-contained aluminum cabinets that ensure extended electrical availability in remote areas. They’re specifically targeting the energy storage needs of the underserved Indian market, both business users and household consumers. By India’s own set standards, only 10% of households in a village must have electricity to be considered electrified. As of August 2018, 91% of the total households are electrified in India. Rural areas ...

A recent client needed a power supply product that could stream clean, uninterrupted power to mobile phone base stations. These phone base stations were installed in areas where power was often unreliable, experiencing surges, fluctuations, and noise that could severely disrupt the proper functioning of the base unit and cause disruptions to the mobile network or damage to the base stations. Since providing a stable mobile network for base stations was key to the brand’s reputation, we had to ensure that ...

An iconic global brand of household appliances sought a new OEM manufacturing partner for their induction cooktop coil assemblies and controller subsystems, following a falling out with their existing offshore vendor. Looking to start anew with a more accountable, proactive EMS relationship, they considered us after reviewing our superior track record developing similar heating components for consumer appliance OEM customers across international markets. Challenges Over the course of several onsite visits between our senior management and the client’s product engineering ...