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Manufacturability has a strong impact on who you choose as a manufacturer, cost and lead time, all of which control a vast majority of your project. But that doesn’t necessarily mean you have to change everything about your ideal industrial product. In most cases, designing for manufacturability results in a series of small changes that will benefit both you and your manufacturer.

Needless to say, scheduling is a tedious task, especially when there’s a lot of information to organize. Because no two shop floors are the same, it’s impossible to install a standard program that can accurately address and produce the most efficient scheduling technology, which is why HUI invested in a customized scheduling program—coined ShopFloor Scheduler.

Since its implementation, ShopFloor Scheduler has enhanced cross-team communication, customer relations and on-time orders.

Industrial prototypes provide a wide range of benefits that prove their necessity to both design engineers and customers. Prototypes allow the manufacturer to test functionality and scale the product correctly.

We’ve all had those days. The ones where you walk into the office, and you get the email or phone call that turns your entire day into complete havoc because a customer submits an order that they need in two days. Things come up. We get it. So, here are some suggestions for dealing with short lead times that will make your life a little less stressful.

Maintaining a realistic timeline is an important aspect of managing an industrial project. When you launch into development, it’s important to understand and consider the following five factors to meet your project requirements and timeline:

Scope creep—the sneaky tendency for projects to grow beyond their original bounds—looms for every manufacturing project. The best way to avoid unnecessary scope creep is to first understand what it is and what it is not.

If you’re not branding your industrial products, then you’re missing a highly valuable opportunity to convey a consistent representation of your organization’s credibility, product quality and overall value. Your customers are spending thousands of dollars to purchase your equipment, so shouldn't they readily know who produced it?

Many of the industrial products HUI manufactures have a powder coated paint finish. As with any finish applied to any product, the powder coating we apply needs to be tested to ensure that the finish is going to last. The following is a brief description of some of the tests we commonly use to validate that our powder coated finishes are in-tolerance, properly cured and ready to stand up to the usage and environmental conditions your products will be used in.

Customers who entrust a manufacturer with their industrial design and production have high expectations about quality and reliability. That’s understandable, and it’s also why manufacturers need to plan for failure in order to prevent it.

Industrial manufacturers rely on failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) to identify and eliminate potential defects early in the process in order to avoid costly late-stage correction. The result? Quality products, pride in craftsmanship and satisfied customers.