Case Brief:
Liquid Silicone Rubber (LSR) manufacturing has a special place in GEMS’ history. As an early entrant to rubber mold making in the industry, we helped clients develop many molds and tools for silicone products that the industry still uses today. For a consumer product project, the famous brand customer needed to introduce a soft touch travel bottle to their sales channels worldwide before the coming summer holiday, as they forecasted a huge market opportunity if we could hit the market tendency earlier than other competitors. This required on a compressed time schedule maximum 4 months from tooling kick-off to massive production, while the client didn’t finalize the product specification by then.
How the Story Goes:
The Problem
Liquid Silicone Rubber (LSR) manufacturing has a special place in GEMS’ history. As an early entrant to rubber mold making in the industry, we helped clients develop many molds and tools for silicone products that the industry still uses today. For a consumer product project, the famous brand customer needed to introduce a soft touch travel bottle to their sales channels worldwide before the coming summer holiday, as they forecasted a huge market opportunity if we could hit the market tendency earlier than other competitors. This required on a compressed time schedule maximum 4 months from tooling kick-off to massive production, while the client didn’t finalize the product specification by then.
Our Process
After reviewing the customer expectations, GEMS understands it requires an entirely new project management team being developed that could meet the disparate requirements of each component and performance. Material, cleanliness, flexibility, appearance and cost were all critical aspects to be considered. More importantly, NO compromise allowed for the quality and the timeline. GEMS assigned the rubber talent resources, integrated the process technology, and configured each component for its material and process. To assure the project timeline, weekly conference call meetings were held to review the latest project progress at least once a week.
The Result
The client was happy with GEMS’s proposal to move forwards with liquid silicone rubber as the key material and applied a simple but eco packaging method to honor the environment friendliness, which later turned out to be welcomed by most consumers. With close communication with the clients and manufacturing partners, all parties are always refreshed on the same page and the project milestones were successfully hit or even pulled in. GEMS gained client’s production approval when submitting the 2nd batches of engineering samples, helping enable the timely market launch and high volume manufacturing supply within 4 months timeframe.
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