Pilot Manufacturing

Recognizing that time to market is central to your success, we operate prototype centers at various manufacturing facilities. These centres feature dedicated facilities and equipment to deliver prototype quantities of your product components & sub-assemblies on time and to your specification.

When you make contact with our prototype centre through your local representative, an experienced engineering team is assigned to your request. This team supports each stage of your project to completion, offering design advice and access to alternative technical solutions to optimize your overall medical device and minimize cost.

Decisions made during the product design phase determine 70-80% of a product’s cost while decisions made during production account for about 20% of product cost. After design freeze, changes to the product design are difficult and expensive.

That is why appropriate investment and consideration of Design for Manufacturing (DFM) early in the product development cycle provides a range of benefits such as lower unit costs, higher quality product, reliable manufacturing processes, better adherence to regulatory requirements and accelerated time to market. DFM principles are integrated into all stages of the TE Connectivity product design, development and pilot manufacturing processes.

Your design and development projects can be managed from one or more global centers of excellence, depending on the capabilities you required. Many locations offer dedicated R&D fabrication and testing labs, prototyping facilities, unique processing expertise and systems, and manufacturing capacity to support your project through all phases of the product development cycle.

Learn more about our manufacturing capabilities.