Taking an idea and turning it into a product.
i2S offers its customers an INNOVATION PROCESS that is complete,
flexible and economical.
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Complete because our departments cover all steps in the product design
chain from product marketing to serial production.
Like the i2S business units that have been using this process for a long
time to the great satisfaction of their markets, major international customers
entrust i2S Innovation to imagine, design, develop, industrialize, manufacture
and maintain the vision products and sub-assemblies they need.
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Flexible, because our customers can enter or leave the innovation chain
at any phase. In this way, i2S Innovation can enter into a KAISEN-type
arrangement with its customers in which mutual confidence and learning
take hold thereby minimizing development risks and fostering concurrent
engineering processes.
It is also flexible because our major equipment manufacturer customers
and major account customers can use their own standards for project
management. And, last but not least, the putting in place of a GO/NOGO
contractual clause allows the partners to have constant control over their
mutual commitments.
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Economical, because the return on intangible investments is the main
benefit expected by our customers. To this end, i2S Innovation has developed 4
integrated engines into its project management that allow project development
costs to be minimized:
- Constant monitoring of the cost objective of the final product
from the initial phases up until the start of production
- A functional approach to the cost price of a product
- Transparent tracking of project costs and progress status.
- Financial engineering ranging from risk sharing by i2S, to
collaborative financing, to PCRD-type (Research Framework Program) requests
for proposals.
The phases of the INNOVATION process
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Customer Product Marketing, Idea, Concept
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Preliminary project, Architecture, Cost objective
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Conception, Design, Proof-of-concept prototypes
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Prototype, Qualification, Performance
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Pre-production, Industrialization, Standardization
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Manufacturing, Sub-contracting, Assembly
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International Logistics
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Installation Support, Maintenance under operating conditions.