Prototyping: Velocity™

Vanguard’s Velocity™ group is a distinguished service offering that provides front-end product support to our manufacturing customers by providing turnkey, quick-turn prototyping and NPI services. The mission of our Velocity™ group is to align with our customers to drive cost out of their product introductions.

By providing the Velocity™ service to our customers, we are able to drive both cost and time out of your product introduction cycle allowing your engineers to focus on new and exciting product designs. Our customers tell us Velocity saved them significant costs in reducing the following:

• High cost in not getting production ramped before the competition due to design for manufacturing (DFM) issues
• High cost of spending engineering time on manufacturing and test issues during the NPI phase as opposed to working on new features and products
• High cost of running into supply chain issues during manufacturing
• High cost of inadequate test coverage and throughput

Our Velocity™ group has been organized to guarantee that your prototypes get the full attention necessary:

• Dedicated team separate from manufacturing, including dedicated Purchasing, Stockroom, Manufacturing, Engineering and Operations
• Flexibility for Prototyping outside “standard” volume manufacturing systems
• Smooth transition from prototype to manufacturing in the same facility and equipment type
• Effective DFX support early in the design stage to reduce the need for multiple redesigns, and provide a cost effective design for manufacturing
• Support for purchasing material in parallel with the design process to significantly reduce time to market
• Buyers focused on reducing lead time and limiting excess