Already having a successful product, but wanting to reduce costs, Bigbelly asked us to look at every component in their trash compactor to see how we could reduce the manufacturing costs. As our engineers have all experience with a wide range of manufacturing processes, we could evaluate the overall functionality, as well as individual components, to find every possible saving.
Already having an excellent product, we knew that when Bigbelly asked us to help reduce the cost to manufacture their compacting trash cans we would have a challenge.
We started by visiting their factory to see how the units are assembled, and then bringing one of their units back to the office, completely dismantling it, and then reassembling it, so we knew firsthand how each task impacted the cost of manufacture.
They also provided us with SolidWorks CAD data for everything, and we modified their Bill of Materials to see where we could save them the most money.
With this we re-engineered their machine internally and externally, and made them a full sized working prototype to see the changes we had made.
We continued to work with them on documentation for their manufacturing partners.
