Panasonic Appliances R&D Center Singapore
Product Design and Development
We develop products by applying a broad mix of hardware, embedded software & partners’ manufacturing expertise with customer-centric design principles. Product design and development starts with innovative ideas, design and manufacturing requirements, such as:
- Engineering product from concept to manufacturing
- Finding new global technologies partners who can help innovate and deliver
- Access to existing cost optimum technologies partners to mitigate adoption and reliability risk
- In-house embedded firmware architecture design and development
- Optimize new product quality by adopting DFMEA through CAD 3D reviews & circuitry simulations in earlier development stage
- Product prototypes validation before tooling fabrication to reduce development cost and risk for high-volume manufacturing
- In-house Facilities and equipment to support design through prototyping and final production builds
- Design for manufacturing review to optimizing manufacturing processes early during the concept and architecture phases
- In-house product safety validation and 3rd parties regulator certification
Our Services transforms an idea into a product with the latest embedded design practices and manufacturing support at reduced time and cost. We help evolve the product as per customer requirements ensuring the fulfilment of varying demands, from concept to prototype to the box-packed, certified and commercially viable final product.Our
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Help customers in defining their product design strategy by considering market opportunities. Our experts gather requirements, perform a feasibility study and define requirement specifications for both hardware and software ensuring low Bill of Materials (BOM) and faster time-to-market.
Our team of experts design the overall architecture of the product/system through appropriate selection of the latest and most relevant hardware platforms, technologies, components, sensors and interfaces based on individual customer requirements. We deconstruct the entire system into subsystems and speed up processes by designing each part independently.
Our in-house & partners facilities enable us to become an one-stop solution provider of choice in product prototype designing. We provide prototyping by ensuring excellence with the highest quality throughout hardware design, software design, and quality engineering. We deliver benchmarking, value engineering, reverse engineering, and mechanical services to deliver effective solutions. Our development process; design for testing and design for manufacturing are continuous activities that follow products through development and lead to final production with optimum quality
We provide certifications and quality engineering services based on individual product needs, including various regulatory compliances such as FCC, CE, IC, RoHS, UL, EMI/EMC, Ingress Protection (IP Code) or others, certifications such as , Zigbee, Thread, Z-Wave, Bluetooth, LoRa, WiFi and other industry-specific compliances.
We collaborate with our partner production teams to ensure products for manufacturability and testability, from individual components to the entire production line including fulfilment, box-build the product with a final stage of assembly, resulting in a product that is commercially ready to sell or install.
System Architecture Design
In a product design flow, this stage is an early critical stage when we help customer to design the core fundamental of a product. We present ideas of system architecture which could be a combination of modular electronic systems and software systems or individual customized system that created according to customer needs. We carefully selected the solution for each building blocks with in-depth consideration in design optimization, product features and product line up to deliver good quality products.
Services:
- Complete consumer product design solution
- Electronics Solution Design
- Modular Solution Design in various wireless systems (BT, WiFi, LPWA & etc.), SMPS, Amplifier
Product Prototype Design
One important step in Product Design and Development activities is Product Prototype Design. In this step, we realized great ideas come from the engineers, customers, and partners are evaluated and transformed into a functional product. The main goal is to create prototypes which resemble the product structure, product function and the product values. Good quality prototypes will definitely help our customers to make a definitive decision making. Customers will be able to use the prototypes to gather the market feedback which is a valuable insight for the further product development process.
Services:
- Mock-up Mechanical
- Physical Layout design ( size and dimension )
- Electro – Mechanic design ( PCB, components )
- Assembly design
- Wire Dressing design
- Functional prototype development :
- With Electronics & Wireless function
- With Software function
Design & Development Engineering
Advanced technology solution and high material cost are current product design & development challenges. Our engineers work to innovate, design and develop products with an effective cost mindset to deliver the product function to consumers. With in-house experienced engineering teams in Electronics, Mechanical, Software, and Quality Assurance, a rapid product testing facility and a network of vendors, we build, test and recapitulate prototypes in our own workshops and have successfully design and develop a range of successful products around the world.
Services:
- Schematic and PCB Design
- Product ID Design
- Appearance Detail Design (3D)
- Construction Concept Design
- Tooling 3D CAD creation
- Materials selection (Plastic, PVC lamination, Metal, Aluminum)
- Reliability Testing
- Packaging Design
- Value Engineering and Cost Optimization
- Reverse Engineering
- Design for Manufacturing
- Process improvement for Manufacturing
