Agile, flexible and rapid NPD

We maintained our customers’ market position by working agilely, even when their supply chain was severely disrupted. Value engineering component choices, such as surface-mounted coaxial connectors, helped Filtronic deliver an E-Band transceiver solution on time and at a lower cost. In addition, we implemented improved design approaches, including circuit optimisation, to mitigate chipset variability.  

The solution

• Rapidly designed to meet existing physical footprint and interface requirements.
• Applied our client’s own E-band chip set.
• Design to launch was approx. 6 months.
• Product was launched straight into production with high yield.

The result

• High yield minimised impact, reduced their costs to transfer.
• Imposed much needed quality controls into the client’s supply chain.
• Mitigated raw material variation risks (vastly reducing the cost of quality) and quickly ramped the product, minimising supply impact to our client’s end customers.

The challenge

• A USA E-band radio specialist specialising in enterprise markets such as private/campus networks and high frequency trading.
• Their existing supply chain was disrupted when their prime supplier went out of business.