Support for industrialization and partner selection
Unifirst planed to develop a new line of paper/air/soap dispenser by their own design instead of branding other’s product. Recognized the importance of partnering with the right suppliers, they entrust kickmaker to navigate the EMS sourcing activities.
▪️The challenge
- Unifist wanted to lunch new products that required a large manufacturing capacity from the manufacturing partner, while keeping a really high product quality.
▪️ Solution
- Kickmaker sourced different EMS, relized their pre-audit to verify their capability.
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After selection, we analyzed product engineering and provided insights on design, manufacturing, cost, maintenance, UX, reliability, and sustainability.
▪️ Benefits
- Unifirst could launch its production with serenity and be assured of the quality of the new products.
- Unifirst could quickly ramp-up its production, and each new market shares thanks to the time to market reductions and quality inspection led by Kickmaker.
Technical development
As a technical partner, Kickmaker played a key role in the industrialization and sourcing for Unifirst’s new dispenser product line.
- Sourcing of Electronic Manufacturing Services (EMS) according to Unifirst’s specifications.
- Conducting RFI and RFQ processes to select the most suitable manufacturing partners.
- Pre-audits of suppliers to verify their production capabilities.
- Organizing factory tours and providing comparative supplier assessments and scorecards.
- Engineering analysis across selected factories to ensure manufacturing feasibility.
Kickmaker's expertise
We leveraged our expertise to support Unifirst in:
- Selecting the right EMS partners to match Unifirst’s production capacity and quality requirements.
- Providing insights on supplier selection, design, manufacturing, cost, maintenance, user experience, reliability, and eco-friendly impact.
- Ensuring a smooth production launch with quality assurance and accelerated time-to-market.
- Enabling Unifirst to scale production efficiently while maintaining high product standards.
Discover Kickmaker’s expertise
Innovation.
01. Innovation
design and industrialization.
Define the possibilities inherent in the development of your products and the associated industrial processes.
Anticipation.
03. Management
product lifecycle management.
Production monitoring activities, quality control, and series life follow-up for your product.
