Given the fact we had been building these devices for several years, we already had some ideas to work from. We were confident we could accomplish their goals so they invested a little time in gathering the specifications and cornerstone design requirements into a scope of work. We then took the project and ran with it, using our knowledge and experience to develop a plan that would work within their constraints.

At the end of the project, we were able to deliver above and beyond our original scope of work. We were able to accomplish GE’s goal of 2 devices with the required 80% of functionality of the original custom devices, with the 2 devices each priced at $9,850 and $7,595. This beat their pricing goal by 17% and 36% respectively. The new lead-time was quoted at 8-10 weeks, which means we beat their lead-time goal by between 17% and 33%. Finally, the NRE budget. We completed the project with Non-Recurring Expenses of slightly over $35,000 including the design engineering, document creation and manufacturing tooling/fixturing expenses, beating their budget goal by 30%.