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Expertise to Support Your Product Refresh
“Established companies work with Design 1st to refresh existing products and entire product lines. We provide focused design and engineering support alongside manufacturing strategy to mitigate supply risks and negotiate component pricing and shipping timelines.
We offer the following services to support your product refresh:”

Add intelligence and connectivity to your product. Our experienced electronics and embedded systems engineers can add cellular, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth®, RFID, GPS and other types of secure wireless control and connectivity to your product.

We help you solve the most challenging engineering problems and supplement your team with expertise. Our transparent, collaborative approach delivers learning and working product solutions that get prototyped and tested in-house before being integrated into your final manufacture-ready product.

A well-thought-through design delivers an enjoyable, easy-to-use product that brings your brand and vision to life. As you move from product concept options to a finalized design, our team builds physical prototypes that replicate the product experience to test and ensure a rewarding user experience.

The global shortage of electronics components, rising shipping costs, travel restrictions, and inflation make defining your components and supplier strategy early on critical. After your design concept is locked-in, we work with you to select materials, components, and parts that are easy to source and replace if issues arise.

Did you know 70% of a product’s manufacturing cost gets locked in during the design phase? To mitigate this risk, we provide manufacturing set-up and support from the onset of your product design to ensure a smooth transition to volume production. We work with and support your existing manufacture networks.
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