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.
