Project Goals
Sunrise was asked to take design ownership of a valve actuator product line, so our client can focus on marketing and manufacturing. Sunrise Labs has been supporting Valvcon in this way for over 25 years!
Sunrise Labs Solution
- Consolidated 18 control boards into a single board
- Introduced sophisticated microprocessor technology
- Wrote a design specification for the architecture
- Developed an innovative push-button set-up procedure through collaboration with the client's marketing and management team
Results
- Innovative set-up mechanism significantly reduced the field set-up time from 60 minutes to 1 minute, making this product the "industry gold standard"
- Achieved significant cost reductions on existing products
- Improved customer satisfaction
- Microprocessor based design allows flexibility to quickly respond to future customer requirements