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90% of hardware startups fail. NexPCB’s extensive experience in product design and development ensures their success. With a systematic NPI approach to launching new electronics products, we can help your new product development project become a truly global business.

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NPI: New Product Introduction

At the core of every hardware product design and development is a successful NPI (New Product Introduction) process. When your are facing so many unknowns before the product launch, you need go about your manufacturing strategy with a proven and scalable game plan.

And thats what NexPCB does. We specialize in launching IoT hardware from the ground up in a lean way. Our expert product development cost projection, budget management and expert handling of sourcing, manufacturing and logistics is what every hardware startup needs to launch with. We take your project from a design stage, and rapidly develop prototypes that you can use for testing and marketing, while we are staging the development of your product for mass production. 

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Reduce Cost

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Increase Manufacturability

The Hardware Death Valley

Launching hardware is nothing like launching an app. While you can still bootstrap product design and software development, hardware manufacturing is associated with costly capital investments early on. As a consequence,  at least 46% percent of hardware startups perish before the hardware death valley.

Helping you navigate the Hardware Death Valley is what we do best. We help you cut down dev times, eliminate the need for endless iterations and stage tooling investments in a way that moves alongside your fundraising goals.

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Product Design

Design stage projects are characterized by an ongoing product design process. Not only the aesthetic design is still a work-in-progress, but product requirements may also not be clear. 

Design to Prototype Acceleration

Take your schematics and turn them into layouts. Take your mechanical parts and turn them into CNC'd and 3D Printed models, optimized for your specific method.

Launch a Prototype

Prototype Product

You have looks-like/works-like prototypes already? Welcome to the next stage in your NPI journey. Prototypes are useful for validating the solution your hardware product aims to provide. They can also be used for helping your audience understand your solutions better. But in order to validate the manufacturability of your product, you need to run a small batch and see how your parts and assembly procedures perform.

Prototype to Pilot Run Acceleration

Our Prototype to Pilot Run package is for those who don't feel like saying "It was great experience" just yet. Turn prototypes into small series manufacturing runs and move towards launching a truly scalable product.

Launch a Pilot Run

Pilot Run

Pilot Runs are molded, not 3-printed, small production batches of your product of 200-500 units. The goal of the pilot run is to stabilize the manufacturing processes, figure out where quality issues tend to occur and organize a Quality Control approach to combat them. Your supply chain is also optimized for parts availability, faster lead times and cost stability.

Pilot Run to Ramp Up Acceleration

What works for a hundred of something hardly ever works for a thousand. It's great that your business is growing, but are you sure that operational difficulties and a short runway won't result with a bitter end to your venture?

Ramp Up Production

Ramp Up

Once you know you will achieve a considerable amount of demand from your preorders or through great initial feedback, you should start investing in longer-term manufacturing tools and processes. Our Ramp Up services remove the upper limits associated with Pilot Run production, and give you much more flexibility when it comes to handling surges in demand.

Ramp Up to Volume Production Acceleration

Keeping quality consistent and the timelines in check can be close to impossible with inexperienced manufacturing partners. NexPCB's NPI Acceleration services help eliminate inconsistencies with your supply chain, introducing built-for-scale manufacturing capabilities and logistics arrangements.

Volume Production Strategy

Volume Production

With high volume production, lead times and production yields are consistent and parts tend to cost less. NexPCB's supply chain is hedged against global supply shocks due to our multisourcing strategy, so that parts are always available from multiple sources at all times. With volume production, you can also unlock a variety of shipping and storage options.

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