Requirements and Specification
Wideblue will work with you to fully understand and define the product requirements over its full lifecycle, such as:
- Branding
- Cost Targets
- Regulations
- Manufacturing
- Desirability
- User Requirements
- Recycling and Reuse
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Design Process
The design process can be split into different stages and followed for each new challenge to help deliver on customer requirements.
Customers benefit greatly from our structured approach to design.
Click on individual stages for more information...
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Product Robustness and Risk Management
After-sales product returns are expensive and can damage a reputation. Successful products are designed to function in both normal use and accidental misuse.
All manufacturing processes inevitably create some variability between batches, for example due to tool wear. The best designs can accommodate manufacturing tolerances without a reduction in performance.
Wideblue uses a wide range of tools to manage design risks and improve product robustness. These include Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), computational simulations, Design of Experiments and tolerance analysis.
We can also provide an independent robustness audit of existing products, to help identify cost-effective design changes which can improve the profitability of the product.
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Project Management
Our experienced project managers and structured product design process provide strong design control. This is essential to help demonstrate regulatory compliance and to maximise the probablility of technical and commercial success.
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Supply Chain Management
We have local, UK-wide and international supply chain experience for products ranging from high-volume consumer electronics to low-volume, high-value scientific instrumentation.
If required, we can identify and establish the most suitable supply chain in parallel with the development of a product.
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Concept
We can draw from a range of innovation techniques, in combination with sketching skills and technical know-how to rapidly generate and evaluate multiple concept ideas and product architectures.
Our direct experience of manufacturing processes helps us to estimate relative costs for each concept.
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Feasibility
Feasibility stages explore and address the main uncertainties and risks in a project:
- Technical Feasibility: Engineering simulation and/or building proof-of-principle test rigs.
- Commercial Feasibility: Developing a detailed cost estimate for the product.
- Market Demand: Working with the customer and third party market research specialists to clarify the market opportunity.
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System Design
For products that combine electronics, software, mechanisms and optics, our key skill is developing a system that integrates all these elements to create a functional product.
Building a technology demonstrator proves that all the components in the system can be integrated successfully, before commiting to the detailed product design.
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Design for Manufacture
Each element of the system needs to be designed and documented in sufficient detail for transfer to manufacture:
- Bill of materials / component list
- Mechanical component drawings and 3D CAD files
- PCB Design
- Optical Design
- Software coding and PC application development
- User interface and graphics design
- Build Instructions
Within this stage, we typically produce prototypes to verify the design against an agreed test plan and regulatory standards, before commitment to major capital expenditure.
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Manufacture Start-Up
The launch of a new product is usually one of the most challenging phases in the product life cycle. Wideblue have extensive experience in manufacturing inception, where issues have to be rapidly identified and resolved to reach full production rate.
Strong project management is key to success at this stage.
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Steady State Manufacture
Wideblue manufactures products in-house that are at an early stage in market development, to establish a consistent manufacturing process before transfer to a third party manufacturer when volumes increase.
Alternatively, for high volume products we work with external partners from the start, to establish a supply chain that meets the needs of the customer and product.
We can also design bespoke manufacturing processes to meet the varying needs of each product.
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Wideblue logo & strap line
To download our company logo with strap line, right-click on the link below and select "Save target as".
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Wideblue on Scotland Today
View the video news report from Scotland Today - 8th July 2008.
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This is Wideblue
Making technology happen
In simple terms, Wideblue is a one stop solution for taking your technology from concept to product.
Wideblue have a proven, established product delivery process. This process coupled with our ability to work across a wide range of technologies and engineer integrated systems means that Wideblue can deliver ALL your market needs - functionality, reliability, look and feel, ease of use, the environment, time to market and of course cost.
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Concept to commercialisation
Breastlight case study
In the 1990's Dr David J Watmough highlighted the specific mechanism by which a tumour could be illuminated to best effect. His company, Highland Innovation, created a technology demonstrator to carry out clinical testing.
In 2007 Highland Innovation approached Wideblue and asked us to help take the product concept forward. Today the Breastlight product is being sold in high street retail pharmacies in Canada, Finland and the UK. It is also being sold through distribution in four other European countries plus the Middle East and Singapore.
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Informing Business Winter 2010 issue
Understanding the product opportunity
Turning innovative technology into a product which meets the needs and expectations of its users is a complex task, and this is particularly true for products with medical applications. At Wideblue we believe that success depends on three central elements - an understanding of the user environment, an understanding of the core technology and its limitations, and a structured design process.
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Practical Guide to Business Start-Up
From idea to product
Turning technology into commercially viable products...
- What is the end goal?lan
- What makes a product commercially viable?le products
- Planning a product design & development projectducts
- Money saving tipsoal?lan
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Product Development Workshop
Turning technology into commercially viable products
Subject matter:
- What makes a product commercially viable?
- Case study project #1
- Developing a staged plan
- Estimating timescaleslan
- Planning resourcesleslan
- Case study project #2lan
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QR Code
1000 x 1000 PNG
This PNG file contains the QR code for "http://www.wide-blue.com". Dimensions are 1000 x 1000 pixels.
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