Cooperative foundries offer SMEs small-batch production

How can SMEs get products out of the lab and into the market, when they only need small lot-size manufacturing? One project found a solution by creating a collaborative small quantities test bed.

In pursuit of product commercialisation, European small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are faced with a conundrum. While they need manufacturing facilities to provide electronic components and systems, their markets are usually quite niche and so production tends to be of small lot-sizes. Over the last few years Smart Systems Integration (SSI) has helped get a diverse range of innovations out of the lab and to market. Now it also addresses the challenge of small lot-size production at reasonable cost.

Further details: Cooperative foundries offer SMEs small-batch production