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title: Design for Excellence (DfX) services from ESCATEC
description: Enhance your electronics design with ESCATEC's DfX services, ensuring quality, cost-effectiveness and manufacturability for successful product development.
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# Design for Excellence (DfX) with ESCATEC

## Design your electronics products for quality, cost, and manufacturability

## Essential

High-level design check with 
quick improvement tips

### CHF 3,000

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### SCOPE

- Basic schematic review
- PCB technology review
- Mechanical manufacturability review
- Cost driver scan
- BOM risk screening
- Basic firmware architectural review

### what you get*

- 1-hour pre + 1-hour post project consultation time
- Post project findings presentation & discussion
- Summary report with key risks and top-level DfX suggestions

## Advanced

Detailed evaluation with targeted recommendations

### CHF 5,400

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### SCOPE

**  
Everything in Essential, Plus:**

- Extended schematic review
- Extended PCB design review
- Manufacturability risks and assembly process review
- Recommendation of alternative key components and processes
- Static code analysis
- Controller selection review

### WHAT YOU GET*

- 2-hour project introduction consultation
- 2-hour technical consultation post review
- Detailed summary report with key risks and DfX suggestions

## Pro

Deep dive with full design insights 
and strategic guidance

### CHF 9,600

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### SCOPE

**  
Everything in Advanced, Plus:**

- PCB library check
- BOM cost optimisation and supply chain evaluation
- Draft alternative design concepts
- Material evaluation for manufacturability and performance
- Embedded system considerations and interface review
- Code screening

### WHAT YOU GET*

- 2-hour project introduction consultation
- 2-hour mid-project alignment
- 2-hour in-depth feedback consultation post review
- Comprehensive summary report with key risks and DfX suggestions
- System design alternatives 
- Development project outlook

When developing a new electronics product, the path from prototype to production is fraught with risks that can derail even the most innovative ideas. Whether you’re a budding startup or established enterprise, ESCATEC’s Design for Excellence (DfX) services are engineered to help you eliminate those risks entirely.

**Are you about to make a costly mistake?**

Without expert DfX support, your product development could be heading straight into avoidable trouble:

- **Entering series production with a non-DfM design** can lead to costly inefficiencies, high failure rates, and painful rework.
- **Choosing the wrong components early on** may inflate your BOM, create supply chain vulnerabilities, and lock you into long-term compromises.
- **Overlooking the importance of robust testing** exposes your product to quality issues that damage customer trust and brand reputation.
- **Settling for a second-rate design** means falling behind competitors who are optimising for performance, cost, and scalability.
- **Skipping an expert review in the early stages** can drastically extend your time to market — while others move faster and smarter.
- **Building a device that’s more expensive than it needs to be** drains margin, limits competitiveness, and reduces your chances of success.

Our DfX offering combines expert industry insight with in-depth technical reviews across electrical, mechanical, firmware, and supply chain domains. Choose from three tailored service packages—**Essential, Advanced, **or **Pro—**to suit your project's complexity and goals.

**Dependant on the quality of customer-supplied data, product complexity, and maturity*

## Why DfX with ESCATEC?

### With over four decades of manufacturing experience and a focus on precision, compliance, and performance, ESCATEC helps you bring better products to market faster.

From early design validation to full-scale design optimisation, ESCATEC’s DfX services help your team:

- Catch costly design flaws before prototyping
- Reduce risk across the product lifecycle
- Improve manufacturability and time-to-market
- Optimise costs through smarter design and materials sourcing
- Strengthen product quality and compliance for global markets

 Schedule a no-obligation call with a dfx consultant

To discover how ESCATEC’s DfX services can accelerate your next project!

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