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