Turnkey Product Development
Our readymade team of product design consultants in Cambridge are here to lead you through the full lifecycle of product development.
We typically work closely with two types of client:
Founders. You want to bring your innovation to market without losing momentum.
Turnkey product development means we’ll take care of the whole process, from early stage proof of concept right through to the transition to manufacture, with proactive project management throughout.
Established firms. You’re developing a new product to fit neatly into your existing portfolio, or looking to enhance an existing product.
You need additional expertise or capacity to make it happen, working with a team that is experienced, collaborative, and ready to make an immediate start.
Our approach to turnkey product development
First, we need to understand your product vision.
What do you want to get at the end of the process? What are your project constraints? Is it budget, are you working to strict timescales, are there key milestones you need to hit?
Then we’ll develop a plan to get you there.
Following a risk-reducing development process that brings together industrial and mechanical design, and electronics and software development, we’ll develop a clear timeline that leads to timely, successful delivery – with regular reports and updates on progress along the way.
It’s a six-step process:
1. Requirements capture, to ensure all requirements and expected outcomes are commonly understood.
2. Feasibility assessment and proof of concept, to deal with technical and commercial risks before committing to full product development.
3. High-level design to ensure that we have an approach to implementation that will be able meet the product and project requirements.
4. Detailed design to develop a ‘looks-like, works-like’ prototype.
5. Design verification to assess the prototypes and refine the design to ensure it meets all product requirements and will gain regulatory compliance.
6. Manufacturing introduction to take the product from design to manufacture, with formal certification and approval of product samples.