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Inno manufacturing is a professional contract manufacturer located in Shenzhen China, the most famous region of innovation and manufacturing, offering one-stop product development and mass production services for electro-mechanical products in application of wide industries, like automotive electronics, beauty and medical devices, AI & Iot products, industrial products, laboratory equipment, and so on.

Founded in 2001, certificated with ISO9001-2008 quality system, our manufacturing facility covers about 6000 square meters in size. At present, we have 350 well-trained staff including project managers, product designers, operators, QC, and logistic staff. we work through project from design to manufacturing. And ship the best quality products with responsibility of mind.

Why Choose Inno?

In-house Manufacturing

We make all of parts, components, and assembly in house, which enables us efficiently control product quality and lead-time.

On Schedule

We plan, schedule, and arrange our projects proactively. 97% of our projects can be delivered punctually.

Flexible & Dynamic

Our flexible and dynamic services accept design change, combination package, and dropshipping after placed an order.

Our Capabilities

Unlike brokers or other contract manufacturing organization who might re-deal your orders with other real factories for manufacturing. Worse quality and delay are inevitable. However Inno makes all of components and assembly in house. Getting product quality and lead-time well-controlled as better as required.

Custom Mold Making

With in-house mold design and manufacturing team, we make accurate and durable molds in accordance with EDM, EMP, HASCO, FUTABA mold standard. All of our molds have at least 500,000 shots of life warranty, and we provide free mold maintenance and storage services for all clients.

Plastic Injection Molding

Our injection molding shop is well-equipped with 15 sets of automation injection machines from 50T~450T, that makes high quality plastic parts with weight of 0.5g~1.5kg. The plastic resin we used includes PC, ABS, POM, PA6, PA66, PET, PMMA, PPS, PPSU, PP, PE, PVC, etc.

Metal Fabrication

We make accurate metal parts CNC machining parts and sheet stamping parts with tight tolerance as 0.01~0.03mm based on customer's requirement. Our IPQC perform SPC quality evaluation when first article qualification, and check out product dimension and appearance every 10 minutes during mass production process.

Electronics

Starting projects from engineering, prototyping, rump up, to volume manufacturing, we help clients to do SMT assembly, turnkey box build, and full electronic components assembly. Our FQC perform a full testing for all of electronic parts we made.

Product Assembly

At present, our product assembly department is facilitated with 2 assembly lines and 120 operators. It's estimated to produced 3,000~5,000 pcs of simple assembly pieces, and 1,500~ 3,000 pcs of medium complexity assemblies.

Packaging

From package design, sampling, to volume production, we customize both inner box, master carton, pallet according to customer's requirement. Making sure all of products we made would be safety-packed and delivered.

What Makes our Process Better?

Good process is the key to succeed project risk-freely and efficiently. We rather than spend lots of time to engineer and verify a design before moving them to mass production, otherwise there will leave pitfall or disaster to production. Here below is our main contract manufacturing process.

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 clients. Our profound engineering team works with clients closely to identify and verify their design intention, product function, and using condition as clear as possible. Meanwhile we will make 1~3 times of prototypes to check out design reliability, cost saving, assembly convenience, etc. Here below are some breakdown for our engineering and prototyping work we do:

Feasibility evaluation
3D structural review
Component fitting check out
Parts material evaluation
Assembly process review
Design for failure model analysis
Cost-down review

2. Mold & Parts Manufacturing

Precision and durable mold tool is the critical factor to produce high quality products. our sophisticated mold designers have over 20 years of mold tool design and manufacturing experience, which ensure our contract manufacturing project would be efficient and consistent. 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 do injection molding in-house. At present, we are equipped with 15 sets of injection machines ranging from 50T~450T. all of 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 lot of parts production. Ensuring all of parts are completely in accordance with design specification.

3. Engineering Build & Pilot Run

production As soon as all of parts are manufactured, We create 5~10 sets of engineering buildings, which is actually used to inspect all of parts, material, and process are correctly performed. If any defects or imperfection found, we can correct it quickly, instead of leaving defects to latter.

On the other hand, a 100~200 pcs of small runs should be performed to verify production system. By means of pilot run, we can identify our SOP and repeatability.

We will provide engineering builds and pilot run samples for customer review once they finished troubleshooting process. So our client will physically predicate their future production would be.

Before kicking off a mass production, our operators, technicians, QC must be well-trained with professional skills and knowledge, a SOP instruction is a basic written document laying aside of operation station, which ensures every one knows

4. Mass Production

For different manufacturing volume and complexity, we run either automation assembly and manual assembly lines, we guarantee your products are made with the highest quality, repeatability, and accuracy in manufacturing. Our automation assembly lines enable our manufacturing process high output, cost efficient, and controllable lead-time.

To cater some low volume or highly complex assembly work, we facilitated with 4 manual assembly lines and 300 experienced operators. Our sophisticated assembly team schedule, perform, and monitor the whole product assembly process from incoming material inspection, process control, to full finished products completely. We ensure your products are made at us consistently and smoothly.

For quality control, we perform dimension measurement for all of critical and control dimensions based on design drawing, 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 should be fulfilled throughout the whole process of product design and manufacturing. Our experienced QC team participate the early stage of product design and engineering process, and outline specific quality standard and quality plan for individual products.

Inno manufacturing, an ISO 9001 certificated company, we take strict quality control from raw material to finished products, We perform AQL quality standard for all of incoming material/parts, process, and assembled products. Making sure our clients will receive higher quality products from us.

IQC - will do inspect for all of incoming materials based on AQL standard.

PQC - will perform process quality control for each work station. Knowing that each critical step is done right, before you try to add value by building onto rework, will make the production flow smoothly

FQC - Finished goods Quality Control. they will inspect the finished products, and they check and monitor the product is right, if it meets the specification. meeting the expectation of the end user is our big deal.

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!