This webinar is for hardware companies that already have a working product and are getting ready to scale up production. Experienced practitioners from Nokia, Treon and DP Patterning share hands-on insights on how to move from prototype to mass production without scaling up breaking your business.
Topics
hardware design for mass production
production testing and quality
sourcing, supply chain and second sources
financing mass production
a production system that catches and fixes problems
common pitfalls and a practical checklist
Speakers
The webinar is held in English.
The webinar is organized by Sparkup Tartu Science Park (Estonia), Norrköping Science Park (Sweden) and Business Tampere (Finland) as part of the IAS Business Academy. The Academy is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund through the Interreg Central Baltic Programme. Applications for the next IAS Business Academy batch are open until November 19.
Jari Toivanen, Co-founder and Chief Engineer at Treon Oy (Tampere). Jari has more than 30 years of experience in wireless device engineering. He started in Nokia’s smartphone business in 1993 and later continued at Microsoft. At Treon, he leads concept development and research for new IoT products, from early system concepts and cost models to customer proposals.
Cecilia Svennberg, Independent Consultant at Aim for Better. Cecilia has worked in industrial strategy and production in both the steel and flexible electronics industries. As Director of Production at DP Patterning, she increased output 2.5× on the same machine while moving the operation to a new factory. She shares hands-on experience of scaling production and of building a way of working that catches and fixes problems when things inevitably go wrong.
Moderator: Dag Forsén, Innovation Lead at Norrköping Science Park.
