PRODUCT SIMPLIFICATION AND COST REDUCTION 

Product simplification and cost reduction for products is a common starting point for clients partnering with Simplexity for the first time. Does your working bill of materials cost need to be 10 – 50% lower to be successful in the market? Does your product have too many parts? Would you like to improve your margins with a simpler design? Product simplification is a core competency for our engineers (so much so, that we named our whole company after it)!

WHY IS PRODUCT SIMPLIFICATION IMPORTANT?

Whether you are designing for a small run or scaling for high volume production, product simplification is important both from a cost and a product reliability standpoint. Fewer parts generally translate to lower cost. Additionally, fewer parts can also translate to a more robust design, since the simpler the design, the fewer variables there are that can fail. Simplexity’s cross-disciplinary systematized engineering approach streamlines designs and provides an efficient path to product simplification.

A few examples of where clients have come to us for product simplification include:

• Reducing the number of unique parts from 22 to 9 and reducing the complexity/cost of the injection molding tools in the Senaptec Strobe Eyewear.
• Achieved a 50% cost reduction for a confidential connected consumer product. Also, by updating the gear ratio for the system and correcting the motor drive algorithms, we reduced the motor temperature rise from 80 deg F to only 8 deg F, eliminating a potential safety issue.
• Reducing the PCA board area to only 7% of the original demonstration prototype to allow it to fit into the size of a AA battery (to create a Forever Battery).
• Noise reduction, weight reduction, and cost reduction in automated point-of-care disinfection device, Sterifre Medical AURA.

Additional content about Product Simplification and Cost Reduction you may be interested in:

• Simplexity’s 7 Steps to Simplification
• Senaptec Strobe: A Study in Simplification
• If I could only do 3 things to simplify a design, what should they be?
• Robust firmware stack sizing

Next Steps: please contact us to let us know more about your goals. Once we better understand your needs, we’ll be able to advise how much of a simplification or cost reduction could be possible.