Can you build ten? Can you build a thousand?
The prototype works. Now the process has to work repeatedly. Tolerances, materials, tooling, test equipment and production consistency are concrete engineering questions worth bringing to China.
Capabilities to explore
- Design for manufacture and process engineering
- Materials, tooling and component integration
- Pilot production, reliability and quality testing
- Automation and repeatable assembly
What should we examine next?
Identify what changes between the working prototype and the next batch: materials, tolerances, tooling, yield or the test that catches a bad unit.