Project Delivery

Great ideas need great delivery to become great products. Our People have valuable expertise in managing complex projects, engaging multidisciplinary teams across multiple geographical, organizational and cultural locations. Thus, it is not surprising, that MiniFAB is fast becoming a preferred supplier of micro-nano-bio-technology services to advanced companies worldwide.

Staged Development Plan

MiniFAB uses a carefully structured staged and gated product development process, from concept to full scale manufacturing, in a step-by-step manner that reduces risk and increases value.

Each stage consists of a number of work packages and deliverables, enabling you to monitor progress, continuously assess and manage risk, and modify requirements to suit changing business needs and technical milestones.

Our flexible model enables you, as a customer, to utilize MiniFAB’s expertise only in specific phases of Product Development if required.

Call us to optimize the delivery plan to suite your needs.

Quality Project Management:

MiniFAB’s Product Development teams have extensive experience in good project management taking the headache from you. We work within ISO13485 : 2003 processes to provide deliverables that include:

• Risk and Failure Mode Effect Analysis
  
• Product Requirement Specifications
  
• Design Requirements
  
• Design for Manufacturing
  
• Design History Files
  
• Design Change Control
  
• Technical review
  
• Validation and Verification Procedures
  
• Supplier Identification, Sourcing and Qualification
  
• Product Roadmapping

Keeping to tight time and cost budgets requires close management and clear indicators of progress. All projects require clear inputs in terms of needs, specifications, resources and expectations. Sometimes these are not known clearly at the outset but our team will work with you to capture and clarify inputs.

Team building gets our people to know and work effectively with yours. All projects have clearly defined outputs and methods for reviewing and checking that these meet the initial needs and specifications.

Careful attention to the Staged Delivery will eliminate costly and time consuming backtracking to complete missing documentation and records. This means a more efficient approval process for products in regulated markets, and a faster time to revenues.

Client Liaison – Global Communications

Client Liaison is totally customer focused, MiniFAB understands the time constraints of our customers. Working with you, MiniFAB will develop and implement solutions that meet your exact requirements and reduce your time to market. Our company culture is all about performing to the highest expectation of the customer, delivering quality and on time. Our team specializes in working with our clients to develop a common understanding of your specific needs and requirements, developing prototypes and fabrication strategies, and translating them into full manufactured solutions. Working together is what we do best. Our friendly and professional team integrate seamlessly with your team, leading to efficient project management and overall success.

Communication Strategy

MiniFAB implements a very effective and thorough communication strategy with it clients, establishing at all times a common understanding of project information. Taking advantage of common overlapping time, MiniFAB manages well- structured and efficient weekly project meetings (teleconference calls and updates). During non-overlapping time, MiniFAB is hard at work while you sleep, addressing your questions and issues, and progressing developments ready for your morning. This means less interruption and distraction for our clients and a faster turn around of information.

Time Zone Overlap

Microfluidic Toolbox

Since 2003, and over many projects, MiniFAB has been developing and using its Microfluidic Toolbox to help clients realize their product concepts.

Using a symbolic representation for micro-nano-bio processes, components and devices, the development team can rapidly create conceptual designs of integrated microfluidic systems.

The MiniFAB Product Development Team work with you and the Microfluidic ToolBox to design diagnostics, medical devices, microfluidic components and complete systems that include the instrumentation. The Microfluidic Toolbox helps make informed decisions about the interface between non-disposable instruments and disposable cartridges. On-chip pumps or off-chip? On-chip valves or off-chip? On-board heaters or external? On-chip reagents or not? Where to simplify the assay and how to deal with waste? All these questions and more are made simpler with the Microfluidic Toolbox.

When combined with 3D concepts for your chip, MiniFAB’s Microfluidic Toolbox brings your products to life sooner.