Supporting Your Product Throughout its Life Cycle
When key components for a popular legacy product are no longer available, how can you extend that product’s life cycle?
Challenge
Solve a difficult real-time problem with long-term ramifications:
- Existing inventory had dwindled, creating a hard deadline for producing a re-designed product.
- Break-even point for return on product re-design investment had to be in the near horizon.
- Solution for current component shortage needed to minimize similar vulnerability in the future.
ControlTek provided EMS expertise where needed to:
- Optimize design by focusing on readily available parts and custom components from ControlTek.
- Create a functional, cost-effective prototype in the time available.
- Leverage ControlTek’s supply chain management capabilities to ensure long-term availability of necessary components.
Realizing Success
Tomorrow’s product was built without sacrificing today’s quality, dependability, or cost effectiveness .
