A large number of technology and product development companies, from established players to Silicon Valley start-ups are leveraging collaborations with external product development service providers to increase the agility of their development process and reduce the total cost of development. Such product development partners typically perform non-core tasks like obsolescence engineering, testing, code maintenance or easily specifiable, volume work such as, PCB lay outing and documentation. As customers plan and budget investments for new product development and sustenance engineering, there is an opportunity to consider this approach.

Outsourcing Product Development Services will help you to

	Achieve more out of pre-allocated product development budgets
	Focus on core New Product Introduction related tasks
	Provide economic flexibility to manage the unpredictability of continuation engineering

Yes, large product and technology companies like, Microsoft, Oracle, National Instruments, Honeywell and also smaller venture capital funded organizations and many small product companies have used the outsourced model successfully for many years now.

	Low volume manufacturing.
	Low cost region cost leverage; provide you with the ability to explore previously ignored cost take out options.
	Flexible engagement that helps you cater to changing resource requirements.
	Faster time to market; in-house resources focus on product development.

 

We can act as your one-stop shop for the following services

	Hardware Design
	Mechanical Design and Engineering Drawing
	Firmware Engineering
	Software Development
	Test and Certification Services

	End to end product development
	We have the capability to provide end to end product development. We can design and develop a product, make short run prototypes, have them certified and provide the manufacturability documents to your contract manufacturer.

	Aspects of product development
	Just work on parts of the development effort say, board layouts from developed schematics, obsolescence impact analysis, porting of existing code, fault insertion testing of a board, developing an automated test jig etc.

	They are from an ISO certified company
	The company has over a decade long experience in delivering work remotely
	They are at a third of current fully burdened employee costs as it leverages the cost structure of a low cost country (India)
	The team providing these services has a focus on control, instrumentation and automation
	The organization already does business with all types of companies which include small organizations as well as large F100 companies

Engagement Models

Generally, the first step is to identify a “pilot project". The pilot project will usually be large enough for some meaningful experiences to be gained, but small enough to avoid adding too much complexity to a first time effort. This should be typically of the order of 1000 hours or more of effort, delivered over 4-5 months

	Obsolescence impact assessment study for a set of boards
	Developing an additional protocol capability for an existing product
	PCB Layout work for a few boards
	Porting of a software application from one platform to another
	Upgrade/Migration of firmware between platforms

Not at all! Oaces will act as an independent contractor and will not have ANY share in your IP. We are in the business of providing services since more than a decade and have processes to ensure IPR protection. At our organization, IPR protection happens at three levels Contractual Alliance contract has protection clauses Organization level NDA (Non Disclosure Agreement) People and Processes Mutually exclusive and dedicated development teams NDAs signed for each employee in the team Periodic audits to ensure if IP protection aspect of process is followed Infrastructure Dedicated network domains Disabled disk drives Document shredders Network data monitoring

You can send an email to harikesh.nair@oaces.us