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Take Your Product From Prototype to Production in Less Time With Less Expense
Posted: August 12, 2021 For complex products, there's simply no way around the iterative nature of the prototyping process. There is, however, a way to make an end-run around the excessive costs and extended time horizons that often accompany it. Achieving this requires high levels of integration. In other words, the prototyping process must not be mistaken as a job for which only the design team is primarily responsible. Instead, from the very beginning, prototyping must be approached and undertaken with the full participation, insight, and expertise of design, engineering, and manufacturing teams alike.
Three Funding Strategies For Capitalizing On Your New Product Development
Posted: August 5, 2021 At Pivot International, we're a one-source product design, development, and manufacturing firm that has seen clients deploy an array of successful strategies for successfully securing funding. With nearly a half-century of experience across fourteen industries, we’ve learned that our clients’ ability to raise capital often depends largely on knowing the funding strategies that are right for their needs. In this piece, we'll explore three funding strategies and which will give you the most bang for your buck as determined by whether you’re seeking to raise capital in five-, six-, or seven-figure ranges.
Advanced Pick & Place SMT Automation
Posted: July 28, 2021 Automated Pick and Place (P&P) Surface Mount Technology (SMT) has made incredible advances in the last ten years by combining artificial intelligence, computer vision, motion mapping, and IoT technologies to provide a dramatically more efficient and cost-effective approach to high-volume production.
NB-IoT and CAT-M1 Cell Modems — The Cellular IoT Product Solutions You’ve Been Looking For
Posted: July 21, 2021 If it can be connected, it will be connected. That’s the driving principle behind the explosion in connected devices representing nearly $128 billion in U.S. market value between now and 2027. The profitable proliferation of these devices is made possible by advances in cellular technology that enable the next generation of IoT products to be better, stronger, faster, and smarter than ever before — even across long distances and challenging conditions.
Range-Challenge Solutions for Consumer and Industrial IoT Innovations
Posted: July 7, 2021The development of consumer and industrial IoT innovations pose very different use-case challenges that require very different solutions. Further complicating the picture is that for all the differences between consumer and industrial IoT innovations, they share something in common: the need to integrate outstanding design with scalable manufacture.
At Pivot International, we help companies across the globe capitalize on the $128 billion market for IoT innovations. We bring nearly fifty years of experience and broad technical diversity across consumer, industrial, fitness, and medical markets. Using our in-house DFM expertise that spans over fourteen industries, we integrate design and manufacturing to create award-winning products that successfully scale.
Small vs. Large Lot Sizes: How Scalable Manufacturing Gives You the Best of Both
Posted: June 30, 2021While it's commonly understood that small and large lot sizes each have distinct advantages, how to get the best of both is not.
The choice between small and large lot sizes is best approached from a both/and perspective. But for many companies, this choice is often seen as either/or. This assumption is not always unfounded: many manufacturing partners lack the capability to deliver the best of both. The reasons for this are twofold: First, they may lack the facilities and technology. Second, they may lack the in-house DFM expertise (Design For Manufacture) that ensures an innovation is optimized for flexible and scalable manufacturing.
How to Successfully Solve Your Size, Weight, Power, and Cost Equation for Developing a Wireless Product
Posted: June 23, 2021No matter the specifications of the IoT product your company is bringing to market, you'll need to make strategic trade-offs to successfully solve your SWaP-C equation (size, weight, power, and cost). A large part of this will depend on understanding the differences between wireless technologies and which is right for your product.
For more complex products, choosing the right wireless technology is rarely a simple one-to-one affair. In other words, a combination of variously configured LoRa, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and cellular technologies is often needed. This means you'll need to select a product development partner with expertise in all four.
Four Perspectives for Simplifying the Process of Making Your Use Case
Posted: June 9, 2021If you’re preparing to bring a new product to market, you already know your product’s success will depend in large part on establishing a sound use case. As the name suggests, this involves identifying the needs your product is intended to meet, the challenges it’s designed to solve, and the practices and preferences of the end-user. (And then optimizing your product accordingly.)
Four Ways to Expedite Your New Product Development and Accelerate Launch
Posted: June 2, 2021Every company wants to cross the finish line of new product development (NPD) faster than their competitors. Why is this such a difficult challenge for many companies, and how do they overcome it? This is a question we’ve been helping our partners answer for almost fifty years. Expediting your NPD through proof-of-concept, development, engineering, manufacture, and distribution requires a perfect storm of specialized capabilities, services, and skillsets.
Moving From Viable to Optimal Use-Case Solutions — Three Keys to Creating Profitable Products
Posted: May 26, 2021Here’s the scenario: you have an idea for a new product. You’ve done your market research, you have a good sense for your product category and use case, and you’ve even looked into and budgeted for the costs associated with bringing your product to market.
But one of the biggest challenges your team has yet to face (possibly without recognizing the need for doing so) involves working out the details of how your product needs to operate and perform. In other words, while you have a clear sense of what your product needs to do, you don’t yet have a clear sense of how it will do this.
