ERP provides manufacturing consulting services to help clients take products from prototype to mass production. This includes outsourcing specialist steps like communicating with manufacturers, negotiating quotes and pricing, ensuring quality assurance, meeting regulatory requirements, and designing for manufacturability. ERP has experience in these processes and relationships with manufacturers, consultants, and other partners to help clients successfully manufacture and deliver their products.

1. Energy Reducing Products Ltd
Manufacturing Consulting Services
September 2013

2. Introduction
ERP manufacturing management services
• There are many specialist steps required to
take a product from prototype to mass production;
• ERP has experience of these processes and has successfully
taken a number of products into full production;
• It makes sense to outsource this work as
it is intermittent and specialist.

3. Manufacturer Communication
It is Vital to communicate with manufacturers credibly
• ERP has working relationships with many
UK and Far Eastern product manufacturers
• ERP has templates for
– RFQs (Request for Quotation)
– Manufacturing agreements
– Licensing agreements
– AQL agreements

4. Quotations and pricing negotiation
Know the pitfalls
• Use open book pricing agreement
• Understand likely margins, wastage figures etc
• Critical path to product delivery analysis and reduction
• Ensure component multi-sourcing and/or
• Carefully manage single source components

5. Use Open Book Pricing
Create a win-win situation with the manufacturer
• Create of Approved Vendor Lists
• Create Bills of Materials including :– Source long lead time items quickly
– MOQ's / batch size implications
– Tooling / change costs
• Establish the real capital outlay
for initial and repeat orders

6. Manufacturing Execution
Ensure execution is trouble free
• Implement a Change Note system
– ensure all changes are approved
• Procedures for accepting alternative components
• Manage alternative component sources
• Ensure EN or UL approved components
are used if and where necessary

7. Product delivery & Stock management
Manage your cash and costs
• Work with Sales teams to establish expected volumes
• Use of waterfall or equivalent method to qualify these
• Derive manufacturing finance requirements
• Factoring to improve cash flow
• Project repeat orders and advise
manufacturer(s)
• Manage long lead/critical components

8. Quality Assurance
Work with manufacturer to ensure quality
• Golden sample Acceptance
• Implementation of AQL (Acceptable Quality Level) system
• Ensure access to and knowledge of standard AQL tables
• Test and acceptance of product batches
• Critical, Major, Minor categorisation
• Agreeing course of action on rejection

9. Test for Manufacture
Maximise yield
• Test software planning and delivery (before product release)
• Manufacturing pack release requirements
• Drafting of Functional Specifications,
User Guides, etc
• NB: PCB Pads for signal access

10. CE marks and European Approvals
Meet regulatory requirements
• ERP has access to British Standards Online
• Can assist in choosing the correct standards
• Safety Approval execution
• EMC testing and approvals
• CE Certificate generation
• Relationships with specialist
consultants in the UK / Far east

11. Parts List database creation
The key to delivery
• Knowledge of data field capture requirements
• Part numbering systems to managing
– Electrical / Electronic Components
– Mechanical / non electrical Components
– Assemblies and Components

12. Design for manufacture
Make sure your product can be made in volume
• Test for manufacture requirements
• Bed of Nails Testing
• Design and assembly of test rigs
• Test-time adds to product cost,
so design in fast test ability
• IP protection, typically retain
a key piece of technology **
** Software only released in protected IC rather than in soft binary form

13. ERP Design
Make sure it works and can be produced
• ERP design consumer electronics products, providing
– Consumer electronics software and hardware design
– Schematic capture
– PCB Layout (approvals may have impact)
– Analogue and Digital hardware debug
– Component tolerance analysis for acceptance

14. Relationships
The ERP knowledge
• Far Eastern manufacturers
• UK manufacturers
• UK Industrial Designers
• UK low volume prototype assembly
• Safety Approval consultants
• EMC consultants
• Component Distributors
• Prototype plastics/product models

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Contact us
Telephone: 01223 969934
Email: Giles.Hutchison@erp-uk.com