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Introducing a new product into contract manufacturing generates a lot of questions. Nothing is more frustrating than having a question emailed to you while out of the office, only to find out that production has been delayed for days because the factory was waiting on your response..

As a product engineer, you’ve been down this path a few times with most of your products and you likely know where questions are going to arise.  Wouldn’t it be great if you could just answer commonly asked questions once and know that your CM can find them when they need?

Get your message across and stop having to repeat yourself

“There are three components on your Bill of Materials that are out of stock, and have lead times in excess of 12 weeks.”

No one likes getting that call from their contract manufacturer right before a critical production run. Last minute scrambles to find suitable alternatives, re-certification of product, and delayed inventory refreshes all cost time and money.

Don’t get stuck out in the cold

Get ahead of supply chain challenges long before production with MacroFab’s interactive Bill of Materials Manager with supply-chain insights at initial design and build.  Not only does the Bill of Materials Manager show real-time distributor stock for all components, but it also includes inventory refresh (lead) time for everything in your BoM.

Make better component decisions

In addition to showing stock and lead-time for your selected Bill of Materials, the real-time parts search shows available stock at distributors. You will never have to select components without sufficient stock availability for your production needs again.

The MacroFab Manufacturing Platform enables better decision-making at every point in the product lifecycle, from initial design to volume production, all at no additional cost to your teams.

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We all know that feeling - we’ve just received the latest revision of our board from a contract manufacturer, and something isn’t working right. Did all of my changes make it through? Did I miss something when I updated the specs with the CM? 

Going backwards through the entire process and getting your Contract Manufacturer to release all documentation about the build, and then comparing it to your design data is a process that can take weeks.  Days spent debugging an issue are days that you aren’t working on your product, potentially costing you lost customers and market position.

Instant change answers

MacroFab’s Manufacturing Platform makes change tracking and management easier than ever before. The PCB Change Tracker feature shows who made every change, between revisions and orders of the same PCB.  Get the answers on what changes were incorporated between orders in seconds, not days. Faster discovery means less time focusing on the manufacturing process and more time spent on your product.

Check it out - go to the PCB Builder, load one of your PCBs and click on the history icon at the top right.

 

The MacroFab Manufacturing Platform enables faster discovery at every point in the product lifecycle, from initial design to volume production, all at no additional cost to your teams. 

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“I’m going to need some part alternates for your current production run, a few components are out of stock and we’re held up right now.”

Invariably, every OEM is going to run into issues with sustaining production for its products where one or more components are not currently available.  Having to run back to your engineering team to get a list of suitable alternatives while production is held up costs time and money.

Eliminate sourcing delays

The MacroFab Manufacturing Platform enables your engineering team to set up viable alternative parts during EVT and DVT phases based on lead-time and availability -- ensuring that come production time, there won’t be delays as parts go in and out of stock.  

Always have components ready

With integrated real-time distributor inventory and lead-time data in the Bill of Materials Manager, your engineering team can use our built-in Alternative Parts Management feature to specify alternates for parts with low availability.  When it is time for ordering and production, the MacroFab Manufacturing Platform automatically selects the right components based on availability, saving your procurement team a round-trip to engineering.

The MacroFab Manufacturing Platform enables process optimization at every point in the product lifecycle, from initial design to volume production, all at no additional cost to your teams.

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When you’re managing a long and complex Bill of Materials, identifying and finding issues can be a huge time-sink.  Are all of my parts available? Which out of these 500 components are plated-through-hole?

The MacroFab Bill of Materials Manager makes finding answers about your BoM easy with stacking filters.

Get answers quickly 

Let’s say you want to find all PTH components that are not available on the market from your Bill of Materials. Click the Unavailable slice on the Availability chart, and then click the PTH slice on the Form Factor chart.  Two clicks and you’re done!

Click the first selection, and all of the remaining filters will then update

You can now add another filter selection by clicking on it

The MacroFab Manufacturing Platform enables faster decision-making at every point in the product lifecycle, from initial design to volume production, all at no additional cost to your teams.

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We’ve all been through the multiple-quote dance before: we need a certain number of units for our first production run of a new design, but we also need to understand our unit economics at scale.  Like anyone else, we ask for a quote for what we need, plus what we think is going to be the volume that hits our price target. Except it doesn’t…

We go back and quote a different volume again, and then again, and then again, until we start to get a hint at what drives our costs.  This process takes weeks with most contract manufacturers and frustrates everyone involved.

Understand unit economics faster

The MacroFab Manufacturing Platform believes in giving you what you need right away, without all of the back-and-forth.  Built right into the interactive quote of the PCB Builder is a graph showing pricing at scale.

You can quickly mouse over different volumes to see the price for each quantity, without having to re-run a new quote.

Get more detail

Want to know what drives prices at scale?  Simply set the quantity at the top right of the PCB Builder, and then all pricing will automatically update.  No need to go back and forth with a quoting team -- identify your most expensive components, PCB price breaks, labor inputs, and more without ever having to pick up the phone!

The MacroFab Manufacturing Platform enables easier decision-making at every point in the product lifecycle, from initial design to volume production, all at no additional cost to your teams.

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