We work with a variety of customers, including engineers, design firms, manufacturers and more.
We’ve designed our six-step approach to ensure ultimate client satisfaction, exceptional product performance and flawless production execution.
We'll work together to identify the problem or challenge, define the project scope, assess constraints and outline goals to ensure a thorough understanding of your needs. Then, we'll provide you with initial design concepts and cost and time estimates, ensuring a high-quality output within your desired timeframe and budget.
Lumitex will test solution ideas, develop functional specifications, create concepts and identify potential suppliers — and we'll work through your feedback to ensure the chosen concept is exactly to your specifications.
We will create a traceability matrix for inputs and outputs, conduct DFMEA and use/misuse analysis, and complete MRP work. Additionally, we'll develop a quality plan, create the product design, CAD models and drawings, and then finalize the design.
We plan and execute verification testing, develop prototypes and fixtures, and generate verification reports and summaries. We also document process risks and prepare quality documentation to ensure production readiness.
This phase focuses on validating processes, software, and usage. We’ll work with you on use validation plans and, if needed, clinical evaluations to ensure the product meets all necessary requirements.
Our team will complete the risk management report, design transfer activities, configure the production line and manage the first run, testing and refinement and the first lot. Lumitex also handles the regulatory and compliance approvals — so all you have to do is let us know where to ship the goods.
Before we can help with your project, we need to understand your goals and challenges
We want to help you meet all the goals of your project, and to do that we need to understand what they are. In the discovery phase of our process, the first step is for you to have a discussion with our team to talk through your goals, challenges, and any requirements you have when it comes to your lighting system and your project as a whole. We want to understand the specifications for your system as well as any design requirements.
Looking to use light to add innovation to your project, but not sure where to start? We also offer as part of our discovery phase a brainstorming session with our passionate and energetic engineering team. This add-on service brings our team and your team together to talk through all of the possibilities for your project’s lighting system solution. The sky is the limit!
During the discovery phase you can expect to receive:
In this phase, we want to make sure we can add value to your overall project to ensure your success
We want to develop and build partnerships where we can help streamline lighting system development. This can’t happen if we can’t truly add value to the process for our customers.
In the feasibility stage of our process, we already understand your requirements for your project and are now trying to determine all of the possibilities to solve your unique challenge. We will start to explore technologies and potential ways to come up with a solution, and in the end determine if, where, and how we can add value to your lighting system development.
During the feasibility phase you can expect to receive:
During the prototyping step, we will develop a functional prototype of the approved lighting system design so you can see how the right light can help you accomplish your goals
We understand that often seeing is believing and this is how we show you that having the right lighting matters. During the prototyping step, we will develop a functional prototype of the approved lighting system design so you can see how the right light can help you accomplish your goals.
Because we have an on-site prototyping lab with dedicated prototyping equipment, we are able to turn around prototypes quickly which can help speed up the overall product development process.
Or maybe it’s actually testing makes perfect… We can develop optical and electrical testing plans, run the test, and analyze the test results all in-house. This can help you assure that your prototype is perfect for your project.
We make sure the prototype is production ready. If you like it, it can be produced just the way it is saving you the time, money, and resources it requires to source suppliers for the component parts. This is especially helpful in the highly regulated industries of automotive and medical devices. All of our prototypes are developed with production intent with quality and regulatory requirements in mind so you don’t need to worry about approving a prototype and then having to redesign it to get it into production.
But maybe you need adjustments made to the design, output or manufacturability? No worries! We want your lighting system design to be exactly what you need and will work through those changes with you.
During the prototyping phase you can expect to receive:
Whether you, a contract manufacturer, or Lumitex is producing the lighting system or component we can help you transition your concept/prototype to production. We have the capabilities in-house to produce a lighting system and also do component and final assembly
We will work with you to develop manufacturing processes and test run these processes at volume and eventually run the first lot.
We have many capabilities within our production:
We also have production expertise in the medical device and automotive industries and have knowledge of the regulatory and compliance factors that are involved.
We can do production at either of our facilities in the US or Asia. Depending on where you or your customers are located or your project needs this could help save on the overall cost of the system.
In the design and prototyping phases, we can design the system for production, but the production does not have to be done with us. Sometimes it may not make sense to have us do the production, but if we are able to design and also produce the lighting system for you, it can help speed up the process and also save on overall costs.
We apply our 5-step LUMivate approach to ensure customer satisfaction, product performance, and production execution. Learn more here about our process to streamline your lighting system development.
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