From Raw Materials to Finished Products: A Journey with Sim

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SOLUTIONS

At its core, Sim Manufacturing is a solutions company.  Our advanced engineering, product development, and manufacturing capabilities enable you to overcome challenges – and harness new opportunities. 

By establishing an early understanding of your product’s function, asking questions, and applying our production expertise throughout the process, our highly qualified team ushers you from early-stage prototype builds, through new product introduction, and into full scale production 

DESIGN 

Sim Manufacturing has partnerships with design and industrial engineering specialists with years of experience in bringing new products through the concept-design-prototype process. Design expertise early in the process yields huge advantages: improved functionality, streamlined manufacturability, and cost reductions. 

PROTOTYPING 

The more accurate the initial design and production, the greater the likelihood becomes of a successful production run. Prototyping can help determine whether product adjustments are needed sooner than later.  

Our prototyping process allows us to test your product at multiple stages of design and make detailed adjustments as needed to tailor the solution before full production. This offers several advantages including a reduction in waste, costs, and production time because of the early elimination of pre-production errors.

TESTING 

Sim MFG offers a faster, more proactive response to quality improvement with detailed testing, test result recording, and tracking. Processes include 3D Automated Optical Inspection (AOI) and real-time X-ray inspection. 

Rapid, critical, quality testing reduces the number of iterations needed to meet design specifications as well as the amount of post-manufacturing testing. Faster testing turnaround expedites verification and validation of the design for production and minimizes the number of unusable boards due to errors and defects, which lessens material waste.  

SUPPLY CHAIN  

The Sim MFG supply chain management strategy focuses on combining procurement expertise and real-time proprietary management information systems to lower material costs and minimize production interruptions.  Key elements: 

• COST MANAGEMENT: A focus on lowest cost of ownership that includes economic order quantity (EOQ) calculations, inventory-turn analysis, suggested alternate sources of supply and regular supplier performance reviews 
• ERROR REDUCTION: Use industry-standard tools to automatically perform bills of materials scrubbing and other parts and process checks. 
• COMPETITIVE SOURCING: A commodity management approach that ensures competitive costs, appropriate lot sizes and minimal lead-time on fabricated parts 
• SECURE STORAGE: Secure onsite storage for high value parts and dedicated inventory locations for all customers 
• MATERIALS ASSESSMENT: Real-time visibility into material status which enables our team to rapidly identify and address exceptions