Springboard Engineering Synergy of Services

Springboard Engineering's business model is to provide highly technical, value added and complementing engineering services to launch our customer's ideas into products in order for them to win in the marketplace.

With sophisticated processes, training, skills and techniques that have been honed through decades of Fortune 500 company experience, Springboard Engineering stands ready to drive your product to production.

Springboard Engineering synergy of services include:

• Design Services
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Hardware and SoftwareEngineering
• Testing Services
  • Reliability Testing
  • Performance Testing
  • Safety Testing
• Prototyping
  • Metal Fabrication
  • Mold design and fabrication
  • Injection molding
  • Metrology (CMM measurement)

Springboard Engineering has the experience, capability, knowledge, and proven track record to execute projects from start to finish.

Springboard Engineering's product development experience and "cradle to grave" capabilities include:

• Specification creation/requirements management
• Design engineering (mechanical and electrical)
• Project management
• Verification and validation testing (reliability and performance testing)
• Prototyping
• Performance testing to requirements
• Metrology lab (Coordinate Measuring Machine, CMM) 
• Custom production equipment

Many industries deploy a stage-gate process methodology in order to bring products to market. Nomenclature may vary, however, the engineering rigor, processes and discipline to deliver products to market on time, on cost, and with the estimated resources is the same regardless of industry.  Springboard Engineering is well versed in the stage-gate philosophy to deliver projects.

Product development stage gate process overview:

• Concept Stage
  • Voice of the customer
  • Market research
  • Ethnography
  • Market demand analysis
  • Process technology assessment
  • Product technology assessment
  • Product requirements
  • Product specification
  • Financial targets
  • Project approval
• Project Feasibility Assessment
  • Voice of the customer
  • Frozen design idea
  • Design requirements
  • Quality plan
  • Design selection
  • Functional prototypes
  • Cosmetic model
  • Early supplier involvement
  • Tolerance analysis
  • Part evaluation process
  • Financial analysis
  • Project approval
• Design and development
  • Voice of the customer
  • Frozen design selection
  • IP review
  • Packaging review
  • Financial refinement
  • Design requirements and design specifications
  • Safety review
  • Design confirmation
  • High fidelity appearance models
  • Functioning and properly working prototypes
  • engineering builds
  • Project approval
• Execution Stage
  • Voice of the customer
  • Frozen design
  • Release tooling
  • Purchas parts
  • Final capacity study
  • First part approvals
  • BOM loaded
  • Marketing release
  • Pilot builds
  • Equipment installation
  • Packaging released
• Production Release Stage
  • Voice of the customer
  • Production start
  • Lessons learned
  • Performance audits
  • Financial audits