Who Do Your Trust to Take Your Design and Make it a Product?
DfR Solutions can Help you Find the Most Reliable and Cost-Efficient Resources
In today's competitive business environment, companies like yours are looking to lower operating costs and increase productivity. However, your product is only as reliable as the quality of its supplied components.
DfR Bases Each Solution on the Understanding That the Electronics Supply Chain Can be Separated Into Two Categories: Commodity:
Options include:
- Segregation of out-of-control lots
- Periodic on-site audits
- Periodic construction analysis
- Periodic life testing
- Component specifications beyond standard industry practice
- Initial on-site audit
- Initial construction analysis
- Initial life-testing
- Demonstration of statistical process control parameters (Cpk and AOQ)
- Component specifications that mimic standard industry practice
- Requirement of a particular quality system (ISO9000, QS9000, etc.)
Engineered:
Options include:
- Supplier identification
- Gap analysis of existing internal specifications
- Technical capability audits
- Correlation of technical capability with product complexity for supply chain optimization
- Tracking of critical-to-quality parameters
- Initial and periodic construction analysis
- Identification of relevant industry standards and tools for low-cost assessment
- Development of auditing and screening procedures for infant mortality minimization
- Supplier intervention
For more information on DfR's Component Specifications, PCB Audit, or Contract Assembler Supply Chain services click on the appropriate link. If you have a specific question please feel free to send us an email.
For a PDF outlining DfR's Supply Chain services click here.