- Developing a deep understanding of the customer industry and needs
- Visiting the customer site once
- Consulting service with sourcing documents for electronics development and manufacturing supplier RFQ
- Consulting service with electronics requirements definition
- Consulting service with evaluating RFQ offers (independent review of proposed solutions, as well as verifying supplier’s claims feasibility)
- Assessing the supplier candidate (not in person)
- Visiting the nominated electronics development supplier site once
- Independent reviews and suggestions for the concept phase
- Independent design to cost reviews
- Independent manufacturability reviews
- Independent risk assessments
- Physical sample evaluation when available (desk tests, no substitute for laboratory testing)
- Consulting service with not-so-central change management
- Regular progress checks with electronics development supplier and reporting to the customer
- Independent reviews of test results
- Fundamental analysis of possible early and field failures
Not part of the standard package, although possible to a limit:
- Providing specialized training for the customer or the supplier (cyber security, explosion safety, functional safety, SPICE, EMC, code robustness…)
- Very detailed analysis and debugging
- Independent complex simulations and laboratory tests
- EMC debugging
- Providing forensic opinion at possible action in court
- On-site presence (laboratory or production)