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Seeking a Reliable Contract Manufacturer?

Inno manufacturing is a highly professional and deeply experienced Contract Manufacturer located in Shenzhen China. This is the main centre of innovation in the country for manufacturing, offering one-stop product development and mass production services for electronic and electro-mechanical products across the full spectrum of industries. We work in automotive electronics, beauty and medical devices, AI products, industrial products, laboratory equipment, and much more.

Founded in 2001, fully accredited with ISO9001-2008 quality system certification, our manufacturing facility covers 6000 square meters. Our 300 plus highly skilled staff includes project and product managers, product designers, QC engineers and logistic staff. We serve in whatever capacity your project requires, from design to manufacturing and warranty/service. We make your product the best that it can be, offering peace of mind through exceptional service and support.

Why Choose Inno?

In-house Manufacturing

We manufacture all tooling, components and assemblies in house, enabling us to tightly and cost effectively control product quality and lead-time within our own domain, reducing variances to a minimum.

On Schedule for All Clients

We plan, schedule, and arrange our projects proactively. For the past 20 years, over 95% of the projects we commit to the clients are delivered on time and on budget - and variances are flagged early.

Flexible Agile

Our responsive and dynamic services stand ready to accommodate design changes, and we can handle modifications to drop shipments after order placement, by negotiation.

Our Capabilities

Unlike brokers or most competitor Contract Manufacturing organizations, who use a deceptive front and then re-deal your orders to other factories for manufacturing, with us you get what you see. Brokers inevitably offer lower quality and less reliable schedules. Inno makes all of your components and assemblies in house, delivering product quality and lead-time that are well-controlled, as you require.

Custom Mold Making

With our highly skilled in-house mold design and manufacturing team, we make accurate and durable mold tools - using our own EDM, EMP, HASCO, FUTABA equipped facilities. All of our molds are warranted to minimum 500k shot life, and we provide free mold maintenance and storage services for all clients.

Plastic Injection Molding

Our injection molding shop is well-equipped with 25 sets of automated injection machines from 50T~450T. We provide high quality plastic components with weights between 0.5g~1.5kg. By applying with high grade raw material and optimisation of machine settings, We offer you peace of mind and exceptional quality of parts, every time.

Metal Fabrication

We make impeccable metal components by CNC machining and sheet metal stamping, maintaining tight tolerances to suit each component’s precise specifications and requirements. Our IPQC performs SPC quality evaluation at first article qualification, and evaluates critical dimension and appearance at agreed sample rates, during mass production processing.

Electronics

Handling PCBA production from schematic level upwards, we provide full spectrum engineering, prototyping, ramp up and volume manufacturing. We help our clients through SMT assembly, turnkey box build, and full electronic components assembly. Our FQC performs full work in progress testing and final functional testing for all PCBa production.

Product Assembly

Our product assembly department has 2 full scale assembly lines and 120 dedicated and capable operators, with flexibility to increase this as required. Peak throughput for typical simple products is 3,000~5,000 pcs, and 1,500~ 3,000 pcs of higher complexity assemblies.

Packaging

Our services range from simple to complex package design, sample production and testing, to volume production. We are able to customize both inner box, master carton and pallet according to customer requirements. We can offer green and normal material options, including molded card and expanded foam inner carton shock structures. Our experience and capabilities deliver safely packed and market attractive product.

What Makes our Process Better?

Good process is the key to success in delivering any project risk-freely and efficiently. We see the value in spending the time to engineer and verify a design before moving on to mass production, otherwise there will be pitfalls or disasters affecting production, when delays are much more costly. Below we detail our main contract manufacturing processes.

1: Engineering & Prototyping 2. Mold & Parts Manufacturing 3. Engineering Build & Pilot Run 4. Mass Production 5. Quality Control

1: Engineering & Prototyping

When we take over a contract manufacturing project from a client, our skilled engineering team works closely with them to identify and verify their design intention, product function, and use conditions as clearly as possible. Generally we will make 1~3 prototypes, to check out design reliability, cost saving, assembly convenience, etc. Below are some stages in our engineering and prototyping work broken down:

Feasibility evaluation
3D structural review
Components fit / interference checks
Parts material evaluation
Assembly process review
Design for reliability, model analysis
Cost-down review

2. Mold & Parts Manufacturing

Precision and durable mold tooling is a critical factor in producing high quality products. Our experienced mold designers have over 20 years of mold tool design and manufacturing experience, which ensures a sophisticated and methodical approach is consistently used in all contract manufacturing projects. Here below are some of our mold making specs:

Mold Manufacturing Standard: DME,HASCO,MEUSBURGER,JIS, ANSI, DIN,

Mold Steel: S136, S136H, NAK80, LKM2344, DIN1.2083, ect

Mold Base Supplier: DME,EMP, Hasco,Futaba, LKM(China)

Mould Use-life: 500,000-1,500,000 shots

Mold Parts Tolerance: +/-0.005mm

We perform injection molding in-house, giving us the most precise control over quality and repeatability of parts. We are equipped with 15 sets of injection machines ranging from 50T~450T. All parts must be qualified by both FA inspection and incoming material inspection. At Inno, we routinely check out parts dimension, appearance, as well as parts fitting for each batch of parts production, ensuring all parts are completely in accordance with design specification.

3. Engineering Build & Pilot Run

As soon as all of the parts are manufactured, we create 5~10 products as an engineering build, which is used to confirm all of the parts, materials, and processes have been correctly performed. If any defects or imperfections are found, we can correct it quickly, instead of discovering them as production starts, interrupting the schedule.

Next a 100~200 pcs manufacturing run will be performed, to verify the production system. By means of this pilot run, we can verify our SOPs and process repeatability.

We will provide engineering builds and pilot run samples for customer review, once we have completed our troubleshooting process, so our client will have early confidence their future production is well founded on a validation process.

Before kicking off a mass production, our operators, technicians, QC must be well versed in the product and process requirements and ready to apply their professional skills and knowledge. The SOP instructions are a basic written document placed at each of the production line operation stations, which ensures the line staff are fully informed.

4. Mass Production

For various manufacturing volumes and complexities, we run either automated assembly or manual assembly lines, or a mix of the two. We guarantee your products are made to the highest quality, repeatability, and accuracy in manufacturing. Our automated assembly lines enable our manufacturing process to achieve higher output, while remaining cost efficient and with reliable lead-times.

To cater some low volume or highly complex assembly work, we can establish 4 manual assembly lines with 300 experienced operators. Our sophisticated assembly team schedules, performs, and monitors the whole product assembly process from incoming material inspection, process control, to full finished products. We ensure your products are made consistently and production runs smoothly.

For quality control, we perform dimension measurement for all critical and control dimensions, based on design drawings, QA inspection for functional and life test and package reliability test for shipment, etc. We are committed to providing our customers reliable contract manufacturing services.

5. Quality Control

Quality control informs the whole process of product design and manufacturing. Our experienced QC team participate in the early stage of product design and engineering process, and outline specific quality standards and quality plans for individual products and critical components.

Inno Manufacturing, an ISO 9001 certificated company. We undertake strict quality control from raw material to finished products. We perform AQL quality standards for all incoming material/parts, process, and assembled products, making sure our clients will receive the highest quality products from us.

IQC - perform inspection for all incoming materials, based on AQL standard.

PQC - will perform process quality control for each workstation. Knowing that each critical step is done right, before we try to add value prevents us from building onto rework, making the production flow smoothly.

FQC - Finished goods Quality Control. Technicians will inspect the finished products, and they check and monitor that the product meets required standards, according to the specification. Meeting the expectation of the end user is our most critical task.

Facility Tour

As a professional contract manufacturer, we facilitated with our own mold tool shop, injection molding shop, CNC machining center, sheet stamping shop, etc. Which enables us to provide high quality, punctual, and flexible services.

Office

Mold Tool Design

Mold Making Shop

Metal Stamping

Ultronsonic Welding Line

CMM Inspection Room

CNC Machining Center

PCBA Shop

Testing Room

Injection Molding Shop

Product Assembly Lines

Warehouse

Basic knowledge that you should know about contract manufacturing

Contract manufacturing is a popular outsourcing manufacturing model that a hiring company source a certain parts, components, or full assembled products from a manufacturer under an agreed contract, which particularly used by startups and medium-small sized companies to focus on their core energy in the marketing and branding, instead of obtaining the large amount of capital and energy to run a manufacturing facility.

Q1: What’s contract manufacturing?

Q2: Why use contract manufacturing services?

Using contract manufacturing business services can help the hiring company to focus on energy, time, and capital on the marketing, sales, and brand building, instead of building a manufacturing facility, managing a production team, or being quite busy for production.

For example, Apple is a famous brand for Iphone, laptop, and other consumer electronics. Apple never build their own factory for manufacturing, but hiring Foxconn as their contract manufacturing partner. In this way, Apple can spend more energy on marketing, product design, or customer services. This is why more and more companies are using contract manufacturing services.

Q3: What are different types of contract manufacturing services?

Different Manufacturing Model

Parts Contract Manufacturing
Contract Assembly
Full Product Contract Manufacturing

Different Process:

Plastic Contract Manufacturing
Metal Contract Manufacturing
Electronic Contract Manufacturing
Package Contract Manufacturing

Different Industries:

Q4: The advantage and risk of contract manufacturing

Advantages:

Cost

Cost is most likely the single most important factor to consider when deciding whether or not to pursue a contract manufacturer. Since the contractor will most likely have the machinery capable of making the component desired, the business will not need to purchase the expensive equipment needed to make the product.

It’s also important to understand the opportunity cost of investing in expensive machinery to produce a single component of a larger assembly. The money not invested into equipment can be channeled into other ventures or even research and development of your business to bring new and exciting features or products to the market.

However, it’s important to note that over time, the cost of hiring a manufacturer on contract has diminishing returns on a long enough timeline. Simply put, at some point, it would be cheaper to just make the component yourself!

Specialization

The next, and second most important factor to consider when deciding whether or not to hire a contract manufacturer is in reference to their specialization. A company producing rubber gaskets for a hundred years would certainly have more experience than a company who is making them for the first time. This means that all of the little problems and bumps in the road that would normally plague a manufacturer making rubber gaskets for the very first time would be ironed out and essentially nonexistent.

Experience is an invaluable factor when it comes to manufacturing. A contract manufacturer specializing in a component will be able to make any shape, size, material, finish, etc. of a desired product with little problems. Much like the opportunity cost of a financial investment, the opportunity cost of a time sink provides limitless potential for company improvements. The time invested into fixing tiny issues and solving minute problems could be spent into providing more value to the customer or researching new ways to stand out.

Speed

With expertise comes speed. The next advantage to hiring out a manufacturer on contract is the rapidity in which they can produce the goods. If a business chooses to produce a part themselves, consider the time stack required before the component starts coming off the assembly line. The business must research the machinery needed, compare models, decide on which to pick, speak with a sales representative, order the part, wait for it to be produced and ship (lead time), set it up, learn how to run and operate it, etc. All of this time could be spent elsewhere. A company with plenty of experience producing a part can most likely be up and running by the time you choose which machine to buy!

Ease

Lastly, it’s important to note the overall ease with which handing over the production of a component creates. The benefits of avoiding the stress of learning an entirely new design and manufacturing process is hard to overstate. It allows the primary manufacturer to divert his or her attention to more pressing matters while trusting that the production of an essential component is in the hands of an experienced professional.

Disadvantages:

Communication

Initializing a business relationship with another company opens the doors to many benefits, but one of the primary challenges is beginning a chain of command, line of communication and overall trust and rapport. At this stage, one would have to rely on methods of communication such as email and phone calls. Ideally, a supervisor or manager would be able to talk to his or her employees in person by simply walking over to their respective desks or workspaces.

For example, if a product was received fresh off the assembly line with an obvious defect, a quality engineer would ideally be able to walk over to a manufacturing manager with the defective part and discuss the problems in person, visibly showing the manager the errors on the component. In the case of a contract manufacturer, if that same quality engineer were to receive a defective part, due to lead times, it could have potentially been received weeks after it was finished. Then, once the defect was noticed, the engineer would have to call the manager at the contract manufacturer’s place of business and send pictures of the defect. Most likely, the part would have to be shipped back, further lengthening the quality inspection process. Finally, in the time during the shipment of the part, the contractor was most likely continuing to produce defective parts.

If communication is a valued and important factor when it comes to your mode of business practice, it is highly recommended to weigh the risks carefully.

Quality

Continuing off the example above, one can easily understand how quality is an equally important factor to consider when deciding whether or not to begin business with a contract manufacturer. Depending on the reputation of the contract manufacturing business, the quality of the part may fluctuate greatly. They may also not hold themselves to the standards that your business is seeking.

Supply Chain

The benefits of choosing to subcontract a manufacturer may be outweighed by the challenge of adding an entirely new locale to your supply chain. In essence, the further your component travels over the course of its assembly, the more complicated the entire process is. Complexity leads to potential problems which, in turn, leads to a loss of time and money. If a company decides to manufacture all of its components in-house, the part is made and assembled all in one place. If that same company decides to outsource its manufacturing to a different locale, even if it’s just across town, it is opening itself up to a whole host of potential issues and obstacles.

For example, something as simple as inclement weather or as random as a freak accident on the highway can potentially increase lead times by days, if not weeks. In this increasing global world, shipping logistics have been improved greatly, but it is not without its concerns. Shipping on large freighters or barges overseas can open a company up to potential environmental hazards. Often, consumers look to a company’s environmental reputation when deciding whether or not to engage in business transactions with them. It’s an unfortunate reality that shipping product halfway across the world can sometimes be cheaper than having it manufactured across town.

Layoffs

Another potential challenge with contract manufacturing is the fact that if a company chooses to outsource manufacturing, it may mean potential layoffs among workers for various reasons. This sometimes does not sit well with the public and could possibly disrupt future business relationships. However, this is an option that many contemporary businesses have decided to choose and it has not affected their bottom line, at least not as of yet. Look to large domestic corporations who have chosen to outsource their manufacturing to other countries while simultaneously putting a number of their employees on furlough. Compare your business strategies, industry type and company ethics, principles and goals with examples in the past to determine whether or not choosing to outsource and contract manufacture is the right option for you.

Control

Lastly, a single word to sum up the above disadvantages, is the word “control”. Passing the buck and washing your hands of the responsibilities of manufacture can be very tempting to many, but one must understand the scale of control will therefore tip into the balance of the manufacturer. Once the keys of the proverbial kingdom are handed over to the contractor, he or she may feel more qualified to make business decisions without the consent or knowledge of the primary business.

For example, if a part’s mechanical drawing calls out a certain tolerance that the contract manufacturer believes to be too tight or otherwise unnecessary, he or she may make the executive decision to change it. This can potentially open up the possibility of quality engineering issues down the road. If control is an important part of your business model, I would recommend seeking other avenues of manufacturing.

Q5: Who and when to use contract manufacturing service?

Contract manufacturing services is widely used across variety of companies and industries. but all of the contract manufacturing service users have the same target, which is to avoid invest extra capital to build manufacturing facility, and concentrate their resources and energy to focus on their main competition on marketing and branding.

Startups or small companies

Most of startups and small companies have less manufacturing resource and experience, this is why many startups and small companies choose working with contract manufacturer to produce their products. In this why, they can focus on their marketing and product development. Instead of spending money and labor to run manufacturing facility.

Large companies

Many large companies in the world also are using contract manufacturing to create products in bulk and improve their manufacturing efficiency. such as Apple works with Foxconn, Microsoft works with BenQ, IBM works with Flextronics, and so on.

Product development companies

As we know, many product development companies design, engineer, and manufacture the final products for their clients, however, they don’t have their own manufacturing facility and labor. In this case, working with contract manufacturer to produce a certain products an essential way.

Marketing-oriented companies

Importers, retailers, Ecommerce are direct sales-oriented companies or individuals that don’t run any manufacturing facility. They just earn profit by selling products for other brands. However, when their marketing shares reach a big rate. They would think about developing their own brand or own products. Then it’s a good choice to working with contract manufacturer.

Q6: How to find a contract manufacturer?

Hopefully you have made your decision as to whether or not to pursue a contract manufacturer for your business’ needs. And hopefully this article has helped you. If you decided that working with a contract manufacturer is the best option for your business, continue reading this section below to learn how to contract one and begin a business relationship with them.

Online search

The vast majority of information these days is found by an online search. We recommend you begin your search by a simple internet query in a web-based search engine of your choice. In this scenario, the very first page of results will most likely not contain your ideal business partner. There are many factors to consider when looking for a proper contract manufacturer. Keep looking until you find the one that’s best for you and your business needs.

For example, a coworker of mine wanted to manufacture a product overseas but had some special requirements for this product. He began his search online, inspecting dozens of websites for products similar in nature to his. Eventually, deep into the pages of an internet search, he found a small company that had prior experience making a very similar part to his. Months later, he received the first batch of items and was very pleased with the result. Keep looking and don’t give up!

Networking

Secondly, the next most useful method of locating a proper business partner is by word of mouth. Knowing somebody is always the best way to get a “foot in the door”, so to speak. It is always a safer bet to start a business relationship with somebody that a trusted friend, colleague, family member or peer has a relationship with, too. This is because the contract manufacturer has proven itself to a person you trust. There is very little risk when listening to a glowing reference of an honest peer.

However, this does not mean that there won’t be any obstacles or potential challenges that one may face when working with a contract manufacturer. Always be prepared for the worst, but hope for the best. Any failure on behalf of the manufacturer should not reflect on the person who referred you to them.

Local search

The last, but not least, method of finding a contract manufacturer as a business partner is by using traditional methods of discovery. That includes local bulletin boards, phone books, local advertising (billboards, TV commercials, radio advertisements, newspapers, magazines, etc.), pamphlets, flyers, brochures, etc. Many contract manufacturers may be right across the street, all you have to do is start looking!