Turnkey Manufacturing Services & Flexibility

When several different manufacturing firms are working on the same project, miscommunication, disorganization, and variance can contribute to frustratingly long production lead times.

Coordinated for Success

Turnkey manufacturing services help bypass many of these issues, since all phases of production are consolidated under one company. Tasks are easier to coordinate and streamlined communication processes prevent unnecessary misunderstandings. The project or product is a shared objective, and each member of the manufacturer’s team is dedicated to providing a high-quality product, with established protocols in place to serve as the foundation for their team’s success. This systematic approach to the project workflow boosts efficiency and minimizes production times. In the event of a setback, partnering with a single manufacturing company and a dedicated team makes it easier to get the project

A turnkey experience consolidates the design and manufacturing departments into one centralized point of access. Communication is streamlined, with one company and one point of contact. This also allows for quicker implementation of any necessary changes. The headache of coordinating supplier schedules, managing different vendors, and sending or resending plans and prototypes is handled by a single supplier who is fully accountable for the project. The ultimate result is a strong, unified design and manufacturing process.

Truly Shared Ownership

An effective turnkey solution provides all the fixtures, tools, programming, development and cutting tools needed to complete a project. This reduces the costs associated with supporting the purchase of multiple components.

A turnkey solution also transfers a large portion of risk to the machine tool supplier. New projects can be challenging and the opportunities for failure can be numerous. The vendor, however, is responsible if cutting tools and fixtures do not perform as expected.

When designing a machining process with numerous fixtures and cutting tools, it is easy to have items that do not interface correctly with each other. When one vendor sources all of the components, it is responsible for ensuring all the components interface correctly.

Consistency and Accountability

Partnering with several different companies can result in considerable discrepancies in quality. In contrast, partnering with a well-established turnkey provider ensures a high consistency in the level of quality. Every member of a turnkey manufacturer’s team has a vested interest in seeing your project through to a successful completion. Turnkey suppliers are held to a higher degree of accountability; after all, if problems occur, there is no one else to blame.

One rarely recognized benefit of turnkey services is the broad knowledge base that is applied. It is easy for a manufacturer to unknowingly become trapped in a machining process because it is familiar; creativity can be stifled. Turnkey providers bring innovation because they are unencumbered by a customer’s culture or the we-have-always-done-it-this-way mentality.

Personalized Service and Reduced Costs

With a turnkey solution, you’ll also receive more personalized service and a designated account contact that is exclusively focused on your project.

Indirect costs shouldn’t be ignored in any project; interactions that come from only one company, instead of several, reduce man-hours spent on paperwork, processing and transactions.

There are many advantages of collaborating with a turnkey manufacturer: quicker production lead times, a more streamlined dynamic between the design and manufacturing departments, a common goal shared by all team members, and reduced costs.

The true cost of a failed project can easily be more than the price of a sound solution. As such, value is probably the best term to use when discussing turnkey projects.

• Prototypes or One Off
• Production Volumes
• Fixtures
• Short Run Production
• Complicated BOMs