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Contract Manufacturing & Cleanroom Services For Cutting-Edge Industries

Nano Technologies

Semiconductor

Life Sciences

Medical Equipment

Research Equipment Design

Challenge:

  • Startup customer possessed minimum operations infrastructure (2 founders)
  • Needed outsourcing partner to grow

Solution:

  • Began by producing lower scale sub-assemblies and engineering support
  • Migrated to higher level, critical sub-assemblies and system design
  • Culminated into full system qualification and direct shipment to global end-users
  • End-User acceptance testing occurs at Innovent today
  • Ongoing virtual factory
  • Low Mix / Medium Volume Production

Customer Design

Challenge:

  • Substrate specification changed, needed backside vacuum grip for substrate in through-hole via process

Solution:

  • We redesigned the end-effectors to have a unique parameter vacuum grip design while still supporting the whole substrate with a variable pitch wrist design

Medical Device Fabrication Equipment

Challenge:

  • Customer eliminated in-house manufacturing for tooling/fixtures
  • Migrated to outsourced business model
  • Provided minimum product documentation

Solutions (across multiple product types):

We were required to reverse engineer 20-70% of the product content/documentation including:
  • Bills of Materials
  • Component Drawings
  • Assembly Procedures
  • Test Processes
  • Co-developed product improvements
  • Very High Mix / Low Volume Production

Semiconductor Equipment Manufacturer

Challenge:

  • Customer changed operations model to FIT-Only, Final Integration and Test for two mainstream products
  • Needed operations partner
  • Required cleanroom assembly

Solution:

  • Developed full manufacturing cleanroom cells to support:
  • Sub-assembly build and test
  • System level assembly
  • Low Mix / Medium Volume Production

Semiconductor Components Manufacturer

Challenge:

  • Customer needed outsourcing partner for mature flow control valve line

Solution:

  • Developed complete forecast driven kanban manufacturing cell to support six major product models with dozens of configurations
  • Assembly and test
  • Moved and optimized production line
  • Fully integrated, extended factory
  • High Mix/ High Volume Production

Customer Designed End Effectors

Challenge:

  • Customer designed and deployed their own end-effectors with minimal testing.
  • These end-effectors proved to have a high-level of striction resulting in poor wafer release

Solution:

  • Maintaining the same wrist geometry, we redesigned the vacuum holding structure, altered the coating and pad material to decrease friction.

Core Competencies

  • OEM level Engineering – sitting in on customer design reviews before release to production
  • Knowledge of system assemblies and other process critical items
  • Complete manufacturing infrastructure in place with qualified suppliers and subcontractors
  • Experience working with prototype through volume production
  • High Mix / Low Volume CNC Machining

Services & Capabilities

  • Engineering – offer design for manufacturing and service improvement (DFx), if desired
  • Sourcing – identify and qualify key subcontractors
  • Manufacturing – build prototype (qty 1-2), pilot (qty 3-5), through production (up to 50/month)
  • Testing – perform functional and system level testing
  • Quality – provide documentation throughout our source, build, test process
  • Ship – Provide direct ship to end customers

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