Product optimization
Improve your products’ performance, quality, and profitability through a rigorous DFx approach. Our experts turn your constraints into measurable efficiency drivers.
OUR EXPERTISE
Rethink your products to perform better
Rethink your products to perform better
We improve the quality, reliability, cost, and manufacturability of your products through a structured DFx approach (DFMA, DTC, DFT, etc.). We target gains at every level—design, assembly, methods, ergonomics, and life-cycle costs. Digital simulation and generative design tools are used as needed to validate technical assumptions. We structure the redesign with clear deliverables and ensure a smooth transfer to production. The result: more competitive products that are easier to assemble and better aligned with your market requirements.
- Analyze technical, quality, and manufacturing performance
- Apply DFx principles to your designs
- Redesign products to reduce costs and defects and improve assembly
- Validate changes through testing and field feedback
- Update technical documentation to reflect the new version
- Prepare the industrial implementation of improvements
- Use simulation as a decision-support tool
- Optimize your products with sustainability in mind
Tools
DFx methods: DFMA, DTC, DFS, DFT, DFR, etc.
Field data: quality feedback, Voice of Customer, after-sales indicators
3D CAD software and configuration management (PLM)
Value analysis tools (Value Engineering)
Digital support simulation
Product and process FMEA
What if optimization became simple? With our integrated solution, entrust diagnosis, redesign, and industrialization to a trusted partner. We define objectives, prioritize value, performance, and cost gains, then secure the transition to production.
Product diagnosis for informed decisions
We analyze usage, after-sales feedback, technical performance, and assembly costs to clearly identify your product optimization levers.
Our experts identify your optimization levers
Our experts leverage the different DFx approaches to improve manufacturability, reduce costs, and enhance the reliability of your products.
Validation and industrialization with confidence
We test, validate, and support ramp-up to mass production through comparative testing and simulations that ensure compliance, performance, and industrial control.
PROJECTS
Accelerating the Production Launch of a Oneka Desalination Buoy
Marine
Oneka Technologies is a startup dedicated to transforming the oceans into a sustainable and affordable source of fresh water. Oneka sought to integrate several supply chain and product development experts into its team to help plan manufacturing through its supplier network and bring the buoy into production.
Engineering and design of a new armored truck in collaboration with the Cambli team
Defense and Security
The team at Cambli, the largest armored truck manufacturer in North America, wanted to diversify their product line to remain competitive and achieve their goals. They called on Merkur’s experts to accelerate the design of a multi-functional window vehicle adapted to extreme conditions in less than 6 months.
ARTICLES
Generative Design: Merging Human Intuition and Artificial Intelligence
In product development, some innovations take time to catch on—until they become simple enough to transform everyday practices. That’s exactly what’s happening with generative design, an AI-powered approach that helps design faster, lighter, and smarter by focusing solely on what matters.
Simultaneous Engineering and DFMA Integration: Crucial Elements in the Product Development Process
In the complex world of product design, certain approaches stand out, such as DFMA (Design for Manufacturing and Assembly), which enables products to be designed in such a way as to make them easier and less costly to produce and assemble. When integrated with simultaneous engineering, DFMA brings many advantages, which we will explore in this article.
Knowing your Market and your Customers: The Key to Successful Product Development!
Do you see opportunities for innovation and improvement that could benefit your company? Do you have a project in mind that you’d like to present? Make the most of the summer to get ready!
