Feasibility Study Service | Electronic Design
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WHAT WE DO
ByteSnap can save you time and money through our electronic product Feasibility Study service. Our expert team conducts feasibility analysis through a set of pre-design activities. These are critical when defining a product specification and enables documenting of potential design challenges and risks.
Up-front research can turn a good concept into a brilliant product! Whether you have pre-defined requirements for your project, or product ideas at a more embryonic stage, we are able to help.
Our Feasibility Study service combines an innovative, brainstorming exercise with rational feasibility analysis and practical testing. This helps us to understand the product design, all under the umbrella of customer expectation, budget and financial viability, along with project deadlines & product lifecycle.
OUR FEASIBILITY STUDY SERVICE
An overview of the process behind a typical feasibility analysis for a client’s product.
Communication between our customers and engineers is paramount throughout the Feasibility Study discovery process. Therefore we are as flexible as possible and open to everything.
Ultimately, we aim to reduce the number of unknowns that you have going into a project and reduce the risks to your product development.
This allows us to work out potential problems early, before the lengthy development process.
HOW WE APPROACH A FEASIBILITY STUDY
Running a feasibility study is a fluid process where parameters are constantly changing. However, we will agree upon your research goals and time frames up front before starting. The below outlines ByteSnap’s general approach to a product feasibility study.
1. Establishing Features & Functionality
This is a critical decision-making process where we step into the shoes of the end customer to create a rational set of product features and functionality. We work with you to clarify project fundamentals, including:
• Core functionality and key selling parameters
• Key performance parameters
• Competitive product evaluation
• Which market differentiators can be introduced
• Side functionalities which will add value without burdening the system with non-essentials
• The degree of scalability to be pre-planned for future upgrades, to keep up with volatile changes in market demand
• The number of product variants feasible under the metrics of cost, size, weight etc.
• Your expectations for the human-machine interface flow; considering ergonomics, ease of use and learning curve
2. Establishing Technical Specifications
After establishing product features, these need translating into a technical requirements specification for the design phase. We can draw up this specification, taking into account:
• Power consumption
• Size & weight
• Mechanical construction
• Environmental tolerance
• Ingress protection
• Accuracy
• Safety, immunity & EMC requirements
As part of the Feasibility Study, hard requirements necessitated by statutory standards are differentiated from soft requirements for efficient trade-off in future.
3. Comparison of Competing Technologies & Platforms
This helps establish the optimal choice. Such technologies range from wireless communications to real time operating systems (RTOS) to microprocessors and FPGAs.
Our Feasibility Study assessment might include power, speed, cost, licensing terms, safety certifications (e.g. SIL) vendor support, community support, performance track record and availability of associated tools, as appropriate.
We leverage our experience across a number of industry verticals to evaluate emerging technologies for their suitability to your application and assess their potential to create a winning market differentiator.
4. Identifying Risks & Advising on Solutions
All new product developments have some risks attached. We identify and quantify these, while finding ways to mitigate them.
Examples of risks to a product development could be:
• Immaturity of core technologies
• Lack of third party software support
• Component supply or pricing issues
The risks and solutions unearthed will be documented, so that you can take account of them when making your commercial and timescale plans.
5. Identifying Standards, Certificates & Statutory Approvals (such as type testing)
Sometimes, it is not obvious what compliance standards apply to a product, particularly when it is aimed at multiple geographical regions. During the Feasibility Study, ByteSnap can investigate this for you to establish what needs to be met and what sort of cost can be expected at the appropriate test houses.
6. Analysing NRE* & Manufacturing Cost
*NRE: non-recurring engineering
Before a project is commercially sanctioned, you will want to know not only the development costs but also the expected unit costs. Here, ballpark (+/- 30%) costs are calculated based on preliminary discussions with prospective parts suppliers.
7. Development Costs & Milestones
Once the Feasibility Study is complete, we can draw up a development proposal to establish the costs and milestone estimates such as first prototypes, golden models, type approval, pilot batch production and testing, production start and production ramp-up.
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