Industrial Field Measurement Unit Success Story

From Concept Sketch to Tested Success

Product

  • Industrial Field Measurement Unit

Market

  • Industrial Electronics

Lifecycle Stages

  • From total ‘ground up’ product re-design through contract manufacturing

Key Challenges

  • Core functional components of the customer’s existing product had not changed for many years
  • Complete re-design was urgently needed to keep up with emerging competition. Product had to:
    • Be in compliance with applicable global standards
    • Meet the latest applicable industry test requirements
    • Be lightweight, compact, rugged and highly portable
    • Be manufactured at a cost that would yield competitive pricing

Enercon Solutions

  • Enercon was given full, turnkey responsibility and complete freedom to develop a comprehensive, integrated contract manufacturing solution:
    • Designed new product from a loose concept sketch
    • Wrote detailed engineering specifications, including user-interface requirements
    • Handled prototyping and product performance verification
    • Produced electrical, mechanical hardware, firmware, and software design (including remote application compatible with Microsoft Windows) as well as product packaging
    • Launched production and seamlessly handled direct delivery of product with customer’s identity

Results

Using Enercon as its virtual product development and manufacturing division, customer has successfully refreshed this major offering of its product line without adding significant overhead costs.