Capabilities - ODM, DFM, certification
Hardware manufacturing and supply
Getting from a working prototype to a unit somebody can buy.
What that means in practice
- Working with industrial and embedded board manufacturers and ODMs, including Portwell-class single-board computers and edge appliances
- Design for manufacture, assembly and test; BOM rationalization and second sourcing
- Custom appliance and enclosure specification against an industrial duty cycle
- Certification planning: EMC, safety and market-access requirements
- Production test strategy, first-article inspection and yield review
- Supply chain risk, lifecycle and end-of-life planning for long-lived products
- Depth
- Specification and integration of custom appliances built through contract manufacturers, taken through to deployable product.
- Who I bring in
- ODMs and contract manufacturers, certification bodies, logistics partners.
- Scoping this
- If your prototype works and your production plan does not exist yet, start here.
Where I write about this
The newsletter follows what is changing here: one drawing, one decision worth revisiting, one tool used in anger, and what I am seeing across the network. Research worth reading gets cited when it changes a decision.
Adjacent
Rarely just one domain.
Most engagements touch three or four. These are the ones that usually come with it.
- R&D and special projects Feasibility, prototypes, hard problems
- RF, electromagnetics and analog Circuits, antennas, spectrum
- Semiconductor and programmable logic VLSI, ASIC, FPGA
- Embedded systems and device drivers Firmware, kernel, board bring-up
- Industrial automation and controls Robotics, SCADA, OT
- Software engineering Systems, automation, quality
- Cloud and infrastructure architecture Hybrid, containers, automation
- Security engineering Architecture, identity, testing
- Governance, risk and compliance Audit, frameworks, fractional CISO
- Water, power and energy systems Treatment, generation, infrastructure
- Technical leadership and advisory Robotics, capital projects, family offices