Dr. Fuld

Dr. Fuld Ing.-GmbH
Frankfurter Landstr. 112

D-61352 Bad Homburg

Phone:+49 6172 928928
Fax:   + 49 6172 928927

gf@fuld.de

Advantage of external Development with own Manufacturing compared with Component Purchase

Advantages of the external development compared to sourcing of OEM-devices
  • We concentrate on product design
  • No dependence on possibly untrustworthy suppliers regarding
  • Delivery time
  • Delivery reliability
  • Delivery flexibility
  • Manufacturing quality
  • Price stability
  • Bankruptcy risk
  • Easier controlling of the development targets; no renegotiation at changes necessary
  • Fulfilment of special requirements, which cannot be fulfilled by standard power supplies
  • Escape a test stage (100% - purchases check is actually indispensable with sensitive parts)
  • Better overview of field behavior of the products
  • No payment of overhead costs (in particular costs of distribution) and profit of an external supplier
  • Use more economically (own or external) manufacturing lines
  • The most inexpensive power supply solution: Integration of the power supply function on your PCB/we deliver also CAD-data

In the result in the long-time higher profits can be obtained. You can verify cost advantages by analysis ("As our manufacturing costs would be?") of purchased devices!

Note: Manufacturing costs of a SMPS (P>5W) amount depending of complexity from approx. 0.15 €/W (power supplies with higher power and few outputs) to 1.00 €/W (power supplies with low power and several outputs).

Generally you should ask, why an offer of an external supplier is more favorable than the own manufacturing; it may be dumping.

If power supply offerers request development expenditures for customized designs, they are often not cost-covering; profits are also obtained by the selling of devices.

Advantages compared to self-development or the engagement of temporary employees
  • No holding of rarely necessary specialized development capacity
  • Cover of peak demand for development capacity
  • Usually short term availability
  • Use highly qualified expert knowledge; thus
  • Faster development, also due to the use of the commonly working environment of the specialists
  • Improved quality, also concerning fulfilment of standards
  • Possibly substantial cost savings in the manufacturing by worth-oriented organization
  • Use of newest research results and approaches
  • Suggestions for own advancements
  • Contrary to temporary employees:
  • . No payment of possible no-load
  • . Guaranteed specialized qualification
 Usually small secrecy need of internal know-how
  • In particular power supplies are subsystems for many kinds of application
  • Usually no differentiation in relation to the competition takes place by means of the power supply or the power section of inverters
  • Frequently well-known circuits are used
  • The confidential treatment of internal information is assured