Help 'onshoring' the m/facture of a product from China to UK
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I'm involved in a business that currently manufactures and imports a niche product in China. It's basically a box with some motors and a circuit board - nothing hugely complicated.
It strikes me that this could be manufactured in the UK - thereby giving me greater control over the manufacturing process - but I need help, primarily with getting something called a "design pack" of the circuitry required, but also with the whole tooling and manufacturing. I have to be honest and say my background is in finance and I kind of fell into the business I now have but I really have no training or background and only minimal experience in the engineering side of things so I'm out of my depth here.
Two questions then:
1) Can anyone recommend someone to help me create the "design pack" of the electronics?
2) What support, if any, is out there for businesses who want to 'onshore'? I don't just mean Government support but also the private sector. I just need help here.
Thanks in advance.
It strikes me that this could be manufactured in the UK - thereby giving me greater control over the manufacturing process - but I need help, primarily with getting something called a "design pack" of the circuitry required, but also with the whole tooling and manufacturing. I have to be honest and say my background is in finance and I kind of fell into the business I now have but I really have no training or background and only minimal experience in the engineering side of things so I'm out of my depth here.
Two questions then:
1) Can anyone recommend someone to help me create the "design pack" of the electronics?
2) What support, if any, is out there for businesses who want to 'onshore'? I don't just mean Government support but also the private sector. I just need help here.
Thanks in advance.
Ean218 said:
If your business is already manufacturing it you must already have the drawings, circuit diagrams, bills of materials.
However if you are simply buying an item designed and manufactured by a third party you need to start at the beginning and either reverse engineer it or design a new one.
Without knowing what the thing is, ie what it does and how big it is, it is rather hard to recommend your next step.
It's the latter. I have no design drawings and so this need to be reverse engineered. If this is your bag then please drop me a PM with your contact details and I'll let you low and see if it's one for you.However if you are simply buying an item designed and manufactured by a third party you need to start at the beginning and either reverse engineer it or design a new one.
Without knowing what the thing is, ie what it does and how big it is, it is rather hard to recommend your next step.
I would have thought that the UK Government - doing what it can to promote British manufacturing - would have some sort of agency to help guys like me do exactly this. Does anyone know of such an entity that has a specific remit here? I can't be the only one trying to do this and the benefits to the domestic economy are obvious.
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