Don’t allow manufacturing-related problems to get in the way of making an impact in the world. WATS helps startup companies with the manufacturing transparency needed to take innovations from prototype to product industrialization successfully.
Learn more about the WATS Innovation Support Program here.
Launching a product comes with many risks
New Product Introduction (NPI), for a young company, is in many ways impossible to compare to NPI for a mature company. The ability to learn from previous products or equivalent test systems is often not an option, and the ad-hoc production and lack of available information can make it virtually impossible to have good traceability of important information such as
- What products have been tested?Â
- How many times was the product tested
- What firmware version was actually used?Â
- How appropriate were the test limits used?
- What types of repairs are performed?Â
- What type of failures do you get back from customers?Â
- What is the true last-pass-yield?
Effective collaboration with your contract manufacturer can become very difficult when you don’t even know what type of problems you face. In the worst cases, your company ends up failing before you get the chance to experience the much more expensive challenges of scaling up production.
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WATS helps you focus on innovation
WATS helps startup companies control the typical risks from product introduction. It provides instant visibility into every single test and repair that has been performed. It acts as a critical information system that ensures that any problem can be addressed, and at low production volumes where traditional statistics might be inappropriate. It helps you ask the right questions and give the right guidance to your contract manufacturer, and it can significantly reduce the need for short-notice travel to the factory.
That means you can spend as much time as possible focusing on innovations rather than operations.
”We had an in-house system. What we found was it was good at collecting data, but not displaying data. With WATS we can customize reports and easily see everything we need to, quickly drilling down to the root cause of problems.
With the new WATS solution, small test environments are set up quickly and at a much lower price than earlier.
Paul CochraneTest Team, Linn
