The Need
A leading and fast-growing UAV Engineering company in the US was looking for an Engineering Partner who would take end-to-end Product Engineering ownership and support for Manufacturing with direct shipping to their end customers.
Impacts Delivered
- Full ownership of the production - component sourcing, PCB fabrication, assembly, inspection and QC, System integration, testing, packaging, and shipping.
- Handling a production volume of 5000 plus boards with a cost savings of 35%.
Our Solution
- Gadgeon took the complete ownership of the Product life Cycle phases:
- Requirement specification phase
- System design
- Prototyping and verification
- Pilot production
- Mass production
- After market support
- System requirement, architecture, and critical component selection
- PCB schematics and design (Rigid-plus up to 16 layers), Power calculation and optimization.
- Addressed effectively all design challenges such as handling multi-radio frequencies like 2.4GHz, 1.8GHz, and 350MHz in a single PCB.
- Enclosure design, 3D component placement, and EMI/EMC shield design.
- Bring-up and Testing – Initial bring-up of the board followed by detailed Electrical interface validation(EVT) including interface and functional validation.
- Integration testing of the firmware
- Developed a fully automated test framework and jigs for the testing of the UAV boards and subsystems.
- In-ward QC at all component and stage level
- Full ownership of the production and supply chain and inventory management.
- Handling a production volume of 5000 plus boards with a cost savings of 35%.
- Exporting the systems directly to end customers worldwide.
- Obsolescence management for components for cost and availability
Tools & Technologies
- Handling of multi- radio frequencies of 2.4GHz, 1.8GHz, and 350MHz in a single PCB.
- Zoho Inventory for global inventory management
Production Management Process
Inward QC and Inventory Management
ODM Life Cycles Supported
