How To: Be Successful from Prototype to Production
In an age of uncertainty and things constantly changing you may want to take a look at your production process. Are you wasting thousands (and in some cases, millions) of dollars on scrap materials every year? Have you wasted time and money trying to figure out the right process for your application? Are you 10 years into your equipment’s lifespan and realize you need to repurpose it for a new application? If any of these situations sound familiar, you’re not alone and at Promess we want to help. The Promess Proven Process may sound new to you, but this is our fully vetted process that will take you from concept to production. This process will help you reduce scrap rates, improve your part quality, and ensure your investment is the lowest cost/highest ROI choice.
There are five steps to completing the Promess Proven Process. The first one is what we call the initial discussion. During this time, we will visit your facility, meet with you in person or virtually and begin to define your application needs. This step is critical to understanding your process and reducing your risk on investment. In this step we will make recommendations and guide you in the right direction to figuring out what success for your application looks like. Step two is where we get our expert engineering team involved. This could include mechanical designs, testing your parts in our PDC (Process Development Center) and even doing demonstrations. The ultimate goal is to ensure that we are a good fit for your application and that you understand exactly the capability you will be getting. The Process Development Center is used for feasibility studies and process verification. In most cases, these studies usually take a half day and will include data read outs, graphs, and analytics reports for you to take back to your team. During this process we are actually writing the program for your application which eliminates half of the work when we integrate your equipment down the road.