ETS interfaces with the customer on your initial design concept stage to help develop thermal solutions that meet your thermal performance requirements.  Once the design is established, ETS will work with one of our factories in Asia to produce samples and then launch into production.

Programs Time line:

A typical program will take 20 to 40 days from initial discussions to first production parts. Below is a typical program schedule from initial discussion to production parts.

1. Engage with customer engineering to define and understand needs and wants – 1 to 5 days depending on customer readiness.
2. Create manufacturing drawings and define Critical To Function (CTF) dimensions and tolerances – 1 to 2 days
3. Define projected production quantities.
4. Determine appropriate manufacturing processes based on #2 and #3 above – 1 to 3 days
5. Build prototypes. Ideally we will utilize the process that will be used for production, however this is NOT always cost effect and may use processes that are more suited for prototyping – 3 to 20 days.
6. Prototypes are used to determine fit and function – typically called DVT (design verification testing) – time is determined by customers urgency to test.
7. After DVT - Review prototype build and adjust the design and or tolerances as needed – 1 to 3 days
8. Depending upon readiness for production:
1. If ready for full production - Build production tooling – 10 to 25 days
2. If not ready for full preproduction, due to uncertainty of market or expediting purposes, build preproduction tooling – 3 to 10 days
9. After tooling has been build produce 30 to 100 pieces that will be used to create our First Article Inspection (FAI) Report. If the tooling is full production tooling we will also perform a CpK evaluation.
10. Send the FAI Parts and Report to customer for approval.
1. Sometimes there are dimensions that do NOT meet the specified tolerances and or CpK values. If these are NOT CTF dimensions these tolerances may be adjusted to bring them into specification. This is a very acceptable way to control the cost of the part and still provide  quality, fully functional parts.