goes wrong before the drawing exists.
Engineering help in China comes in six distinct kinds of firm. Most brands only ever meet one of them, and it is the one that wants the parts order.
The shop that quotes the parts also reviews the drawing
Manufacturability feedback offered to win the order is useful and cheap. It is also why that shop cannot be the reviewer of record on a part someone else makes.
One tier does not fit every job
A bracket, a bounded design review, and a new product line need three different kinds of firm. Sending all three to the same one pays for capability you did not need, or misses capability you did.
The drawing stays with the vendor
When the design lives at the factory, changing factories means starting over. Your drawing package should be yours to take anywhere.
We name the one your job needs.
Every tier below is one we have sourced, priced, or worked with. We earn nothing from the choice, so the tier we name is the one the job needs. The cost lines are relative. The real number arrives in a quote you approve before anything starts.
Factory Engineering Desk
Right when the part is close to something they already build and the improvement is a process one. Wrong when you want an independent read, or to take the design elsewhere later. Cost sits inside the unit price.
Rapid Manufacturing With Manufacturability Review
Right when you need a first article in days, or a manufacturability check on a drawing you already own. Wrong when you need someone to review a part that a different shop makes. Cost is low and often bundled.
Full Service Consultancy With Its Own Plant
Right when you want one accountable party for the whole program and will pay the intermediary for it. Wrong when you want design separated from parts, or an honest opinion on their own work. Cost is high, and layered.
Independent Engineering Studio
Right when you want structure, tolerances, and materials from someone with nothing to gain from the answer, and a drawing package you own. Wrong when you also need them to run production and manage suppliers. Cost is moderate.
Industrial Design Group
Right for a whole new line, with styling, electronics, and supply chain in one contract and a budget to match. Wrong for one bracket, one review, or a first product. Priced by program, with minimums.
Process and Quality Consultancy
Right when the drawing is right and the factory is the problem. Wrong for anything that is actually a design fault. Charged by the day.
You approve before anyone starts.
The tier is named before a firm is contacted, and the quote is approved before a dollar is spent.
Scope
We write the brief and name the tier the job needs, before anyone is contacted.
Quote
We source the firm inside that tier and show you the quote with the vendor's name withheld until you approve it.
Manage
Our Shenzhen team runs the engagement day to day. Everything the firm produces is yours, with no vendor lock on the drawing.
and a drawing package you own.
Engineering bought as engineering, with nothing attached to it.
Which tier the job needs and why, in one page.
The firm's quote, approved by you before a dollar is spent.
Every file the engineer produces, portable to any manufacturer.
Findings from a reviewer with nothing to gain from the answer.
The firm's invoice behind ours, identity withheld, totals visible.
Engineering is bought from the right tier for the job and passed through at cost plus 10%. The drawing package is yours to take anywhere.
Product Development includes additional services that compound on this one.
Tell us the job.
We will name the tier.
We work through referrals. If you have been referred, send us a message with what you need reviewed or designed, and we will come back with the tier, the reason, and a quote to approve.