Design Transfer Project for Control Pad Product Refresh is a First for Historically Self-Reliant VELUX
How Process Optimization, Supply Chain Localization, and Operational Resilience Established a Lasting Partnership Built on Trust
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Company
VELUX
Industry
Skylights & Roof Windows
Country
Hørsholm, Denmark
Employees
11,700
Website
velux.comChallenges
- The company required electronics manufacturing expertise to innovate and streamline their product offerings. Outsourcing product design was an entirely new venture for them.
- Customer specifications for an electronic ink display interface in a portable unit required engineering solutions that would ensure more efficient and sustainable power consumption performance.
- Manufacturing lines within Ukraine were exposed to potential disruptions and instability resulting from Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, placing enormous pressure on employees, their families, and supply chains.
Solutions
- Existing manufacturing lines were optimized through automation, process improvements, and by localizing the supply chain. This approach reduced costs without compromising quality and reliability.
- Guided the company through design cycles, fostering confidence in industry-leading design transfer and manufacturing capabilities, ensuring a smooth transition of the product from concept to market.
- Met delivery deadlines and manufacturing development timetable with resilience and dedication despite geopolitical instability, earning respect, admiration, and trust for future partnership.
Benefits
- Jabil’s exceptional performance validates for VELUX — as well as other firms traditionally reliant on internal resources — the benefits of a comprehensive manufacturing partnership.
- Jabil’s successful installation and scaling of high-volume, automated manufacturing lines frees VELUX for other priorities.
- The successful collaboration establishes Jabil as a preferred partner for future projects as VELUX explores new technology opportunities
For over 80 years, VELUX has built an exceptionally loyal customer base, mostly working without external partnerships. However, as evolving technologies pushed the pace in their industry, VELUX arrived at a crossroads. How could they bring their newly conceived control pad solution to market quickly?
VELUX needed to outsource their electronics manufacturing expertise to innovate and streamline their product offerings. This led them to Jabil, a fully integrated company with expertise in design for manufacturing, global supply chain, and industrialization.
This is the story of how two industry leaders came together to unlock new possibilities and achieve remarkable results.
"It was quite a demanding project for both Jabil and VELUX, not only were there a lot of technical requirements, but it was also one of the first times that VELUX was collaborating with an external company on the full development of a product that would be manufactured with our logo on the back.”
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