From the operating account to the production run.
The final phase turns the project into an available product: tooling, pilot runs, homologation, supply chain, selling price and route to channel. In your own plant, with an industrial partner or under licence, according to what the cost analysis recommended.
Domestic and internationalBetween a validated prototype and a stable run there is a gap.
A prototype proves the solution works. A production run demands that it works a thousand times over, to repeatable tolerances, with whatever material the supplier has that month, and at a cycle time that sustains the calculated cost. That gap is where delays accumulate.
It is managed with pilot runs and validation gates: make a little, measure, correct the tooling, and only then raise volume. On paper it is slower; in practice it is considerably faster than launching at full capacity and discovering the problem with the warehouse full.
What gets executed.
- Tooling and pilot runs
- Definition and supervision of tooling, validation runs and process adjustment until target tolerances and cycle time are met.
- Homologation
- Identification of the regulatory and certification requirements applicable to the product and its market, and support through the necessary testing.
- Supply chain
- Selection and approval of suppliers, supply terms and a contingency plan for the critical components.
- Route to market
- Optimal selling-price range derived from real cost, and a launch campaign across channel, trade media and sector fairs, domestic and international.
What closes the phase.
- Industrialisation plan
- The sequence of tooling, pilot runs and validation gates, with the acceptance criteria for each.
- Supplier panel
- Approved suppliers by component, with terms, lead times and an identified alternative for the critical ones.
- Pricing policy
- A recommended selling-price range by channel, consistent with unit cost and the target margin.
- Launch plan
- A release timetable by channel, with the map of sector fairs and trade media relevant to the product.
Once the project has demonstrated margin.
It makes sense when the three preceding phases are closed — ours or someone else’s — and the decision is to execute. It also applies when the product is ready but your organisation has no industrial capacity: the work then shifts towards licensing the project or finding the partner who will manufacture it.
A frozen design, a validated operating account and a decision on the manufacturing route: own plant, subcontracting or licence.
The boundary of this phase.
We do not take over the operation. We leave the product manufacturable, homologated, costed and with a defined channel; day-to-day operation stays with your organisation or with the industrial partner selected.
Tell us where the project stands.
A thirty-minute conversation is enough to establish which phase your development enters at and what it would take to close it. We sign the non-disclosure agreement before you describe anything.