Okay - I'm a newcomer, so have patience!
We have 'invented' a new tool that is currently with a Design Engineering company. Once all the different components are designed for production, what happens then?
Do you get one company to supply the blow molded part, get the battery from someone else, the toolhead machined by a third company, the pump by a fourth etc. etc. And then do those components get shipped to another location to be assembled? Then where does the packaging happen? Who then ships? We'd like to do the last three steps ourselves, but we are in Alaska, so all those components would have to come from the Lower 48, with all the huge shipping costs, and then get shipped back out!
With the economy as is, outsourcing abroad seems tantamount to treachery.
Forgive my ignorance. If anyone has answers or can suggest some good books/online resource material, I'd be grateful.
I submitted this same question on Thomas.com forums and haven't had a single reply yet... hope you guys are more responsive!
Thank you!
We have 'invented' a new tool that is currently with a Design Engineering company. Once all the different components are designed for production, what happens then?
Do you get one company to supply the blow molded part, get the battery from someone else, the toolhead machined by a third company, the pump by a fourth etc. etc. And then do those components get shipped to another location to be assembled? Then where does the packaging happen? Who then ships? We'd like to do the last three steps ourselves, but we are in Alaska, so all those components would have to come from the Lower 48, with all the huge shipping costs, and then get shipped back out!
With the economy as is, outsourcing abroad seems tantamount to treachery.
Forgive my ignorance. If anyone has answers or can suggest some good books/online resource material, I'd be grateful.
I submitted this same question on Thomas.com forums and haven't had a single reply yet... hope you guys are more responsive!
Thank you!