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EnCata is ready to help you in small-batch manufacturing. We have our own manufacturing facility where we can prepare the first small batch, make several hundreds of PCBAs, assemble products and test them before shipment.
START A PROJECT WITH ENCATA
There is a long way to go before you bring a mass batch of your product to the market: developing and making sufficient prototypes, testing them, and preparing a small batch production. The first batch will help you get feedback from customers, as well as test the hypotheses you formulate at the beginning of the development. Low volume manufacturing might also reveal some hidden problems that are important to be aware of before beginning a mass production.
We consider the first batch to be one of the most important elements of a new product’s entry into the market. Low volume manufacturing is the first release of your product to the market in the amount of 10, 100 or 1000 units. Small batch production allows you to uncover technical problems for the subsequent mass production and specify accurate follow-up costs. You can distribute the product to early adopters and get the first feedback about the product. This will be a great addition to your marketing research, moreover, you will be able to achieve your first revenue. This will consequently help attract investors since you will already have a product that is being sold and working in real conditions.
We act as your extended R&D team which is faster than hiring engineers locally. The breadth of our technical expertise is unique.
Our dedicated team is ready to scale up quickly. We utilize AGILE lean development process that leads to 30-50% faster delivery.
Our development location enables us to be cost-effective and deliver premium R&D and engineering services at 1/3 of the price compared to that of in N-W Europe and USA.
If you aim at manufacturing a product intended for a niche market (e.g. medical, aerospace devices, etc.), you probably have no need to manufacture a product in numbers of thousands of units. Instead, we can offer you the opportunity to produce your product using our own manufacturing facility.
We work on a new prototype every week; that has allowed us to gain experience in a quick equipment changeover to new product development in a few hours. Your batch production circle will begin in the shortest time possible, which will allow you to meet your deadlines and save money on deploying your own production line.
Molds for mass production are expensive. Sometimes it is impossible to get the necessary product quality using rapid prototyping methods. In these cases, we offer our customers aluminium molds for producing the first batch. They are less durable and work slower, but this way you will reduce the expenses at the beginning of sales.
Rapid prototyping is the technology that aims at the fastest product fabrication. Mostly, it is 3D printing. If you need to get your first 1, 5 or 10 units of a product, it may be more profitable to use rapid prototyping. It will allow you to get them faster and save money on the modifications before the mass production process.
If you want to produce your first prototype, you need to have drawings that are specifically prepared for production. This step will allow you to reduce the risks of defects and optimize the production costs. Our engineers will prepare the drawings for production so that you can save as much as possible.
Reverse-engineering is the act of disassembling an object to see how it works. Before starting to develop your own product, it is profitable to understand how your competitors' products work by disassembling and scrutinizing them in detail. The use of reverse engineering can help reduce the cost of manufacturing while raising the effectiveness of a product as much as possible.
Properly designed enclosure can reduce the cost of the product and the investment at the beginning of mass production. Material over-expenditure will be a problem that will affect your business in the late stages of entering the market. Large investments in equipment can either lead to bankruptcy or stop the project when searching for investors. The enclosure is what interacts with the user and determines the reliability of the product.
CFD is the modelling of the behaviour of streams (for instance, water, air, molten metals, etc.) and their interaction with the product. Before you launch your product into mass production, you need to clearly understand the interaction in different streams. It is necessary to calculate and simulate any possible behaviour, otherwise, at the production stage, the product might not react or behave as planned. For example, it can overheat.
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When a Client turns to us for a low volume plastic manufacturing, he or she expects to get a manufactured product on time and with the required quality.
Due to our expertise in the production of small-batch units, as well as our specialization in product development from scratch to mass production, we have the experience and knowledge to work with different types of products and the necessary equipment adjustments for processing various materials. The accuracy of the tolerances, material selection and the manner of assembly; all have a strong influence on the cost of production.
When making the first batch, we recommend our customers to spend the budget rationally on equipment tooling. In some cases, we may even recommend rejecting it in small batch production. Some manufacturers make molds and equipment tooling “free of charge” while requiring a certain production volume from the Client. However, if the Client does not meet the expected requirements, there is a risk that the cost of manufacturing the first batch will increase significantly.
At the end of the small-batch manufacturing process, our team will offer you ways to optimize the mass production of your product, in order to reduce the cost of the manufacturing, as well as the time spent on a single unit.
We focus on the entire product/service lifecycle, from concept to implementation to market launch. EnCata’s knowledge, resources and innovation development expertise allow our Clients to develop and expand their businesses faster and leaner.
EnCata can provide your startup with comprehensive product development services in a variety of materials and manufacturing techniques, as well as technical calculation services.
Turn to EnCata for our premium consulting services (concept overview, design, parts and product workability) only when you need it.
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Our hardware engineers are focus on the entire product/service lifecycle, from concept to implementation to market launch. EnCata’s knowledge, resources and innovation development expertise allow our Сlients to develop and expand their businesses faster and leaner.
Warehouse and fulfilment robots, Plant and Process Automation, Lean Manufacturing, Digial Twins Development, Connected Equipment, Predictive Maintanance, Industrial Computer platform
Medical devices & equipment, IoMT, Diagnostic Tools, Robotics and Precision Placement, Optical System, Medical Instruments & Consumables, Micro and Macro Fluidic Systems, Custom Rehabilitation Equipment
Smart Farming, Food Delivery Robots, Smart Agriculture and Crop Management, Sustainable Farming, Food Ribitics, Farm Apparatus Design, Farm & Irigation Automation, Agricultural Mechanization, Greeenhouse Automation, Climate Monitoring
Cut your development speed and costs by half with our in-house design, engineering, and manufacturing capabilities for breakthrough new products from just an idea phase.
Laboratory Instruments, Test Benches, Biological Storage, Microfluidics, Biological Laboratory, Spectrometers, Automated Clinical Instruments, Custom Scientific Apparatus, Pilot Plants, Chemistry Laboratory, Centrifuge, Sample Preparation
Industrial IoT gateway, Compact Industrial Box PC, SCADA automation, Performance Trackers and Sensors, Logistics, Real-time Monitoring, Retail Systems, Inventory Tracking, Production Flow monitoring, Fleet Management
EnCata works with both fixed term and agile contracts.
1. Once you have approached us with the project, we conclude the NDA and send the information to the Sales Manager for further evaluation and project planning.
2. The Sales Manager or Sales Engineer will contact you to clarify your goals, requirements and tasks to accomplish. This process is very close to business analysis. When the details are agreed with you, a cost estimate and a quotation are prepared.
3. If you accept the quotation, we will prepare a Technical design specification to document scope of work and requirements and conclude an agreement.
4. After we've signed the agreements, we'll assign you a Project Manager who will gather a project team and report on the project progress.
EnCata employs around 30 engineers with Master's and PhD degrees in electrical and industrial design, mechanical engineering, prototyping and manufacturing from European universities. Each employee is an expert in his or her field.
The majority of specialists are of middle or senior levels. Their range of influence is broad enough to encompass the entire new product lifecycle. Our specialists resolve legal and certification difficulties during the concept stage, optimize production costs during the 3D model development process and create necessary documentation for firmware support. Juniors make up only 15% of the team. They constantly upgrade their qualifications under the supervision of seniors.
EnCata is always willing to work with its client. We have everything we need to create a collaborative site. Both parties can work on the project simultaneously. The Customer, for instance, and his/ her team designs the electronics while we work on the enclosure. When teams work together to achieve a fantastic result, it is always a win scenario.
EnCata’s team is always willing to discuss all the necessary details about the project proposed. Our full-fledged team of professionals will interrogate you until both parties are satisfied with the procedures necessary to complete the job.
It certainly can. For any product, EnCata creates a design documentation package and a process documentation package that is suited to the production. It should be noted, however, that the technologists at the customer's chosen plant may make changes or impose their own requirements on the documentation design. EnCata, in turn, makes it easier for the client and the technologist to communicate. EnCata does not mass produce, although it can undertake small-scale production at the request of customers.
Yes. As a highly professional design and engineering firm, we make sure that all discussions with our clients and all information regarding your invention, idea and other proprietary information are kept confidential.
We follow a LEAN approach in product and business development and thus we strongly recommend patent filings only after you are at least part-way through development. This is because patenting is expensive and early patents can already become obsolete or irrelevant later in the development phase. Typically, EnCata's work generates many patentable opportunities for our clients and the best strategy is to file patents at TRL-7, i.e. when early beta prototype is ready and when a startup is ready to start batch production and marketing.There is, however, another strategy, which is to use provisional patents which can be loose and are not to be disclosed to the public for 18 months. These are much less expensive and time consuming, generally costing below $500.
EnCata will always sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement and keep your intellectual property confidential during the development phase and then we can recommend several third-party patent attorneys when the time is right.
Our in-house professionals handle almost all electronics work, including interface design, protocol development, communication design, schematic design, PCB Design, Firmware design and battery management. If the Customer requires a service that Encata does not supply, we have partners that can meet that need.
We certainly do. EnCata employs electronics specialists who deal with low-level firmware. We also have experts on staff who can implement high-level software code.
EnCata employs 12 mechanical and industrial designers and 10 electrical engineers with experience in hardware and firmware. Our team consists of middle and senior level engineers, who have 5+ years of field expertise and have already completed more than 300 projects.
We do indeed help with fundraising through our large business network. However, we typically recommend startups to our partner VCs after we have done some work for the startup and learned more about the team and their core technology. This feedback and recommendation is of great value to all of the friendly VCs as it saves them much time and effort for due diligence.
