Value Chain Support
Whether your product life cycle is two years or two decades, Bicron has more than 40 years of knowledge and experience enhancing our customers' Value Chains.  As a Lean Sigma, ISO 9001:2000 certified company, Bicron’s longevity and success is a direct reflection of our ability to provide value-add to our customers through all elements of their PLM (Product Lifecycle Management).

Product Development
A collaborative design approach to product development can compress your time to market and increase your ROEA (Return on Engineering Assets). Byproducts include the reduction or elimination of trial and error or “what if” design iterations. Our engineers work (electronically) alongside yours, enabling you to focus on your value chain while we do likewise. Our state of the art EDA environment (including EE CAD, ME CAD, ANSOFT and SPICE), plus decades of experience in design for manufacturability ensures the quality and affordability one expects from a Lean Sigma ISO company.

Prototyping
Compress your time to revenue as our U.S. based prototyping capabilities keep pace with your development team. Applications engineers will assist you in every phase of the product development process. Design engineers will model and simulate prototypes in your circuit and provide feedback to your engineers, further compressing time to revenue. From design feasibility, to design prototype, to engineering prototype, on to beta test and production, Bicron has the human and capital resources to ensure you have what you need when you need it.

Production
On shore and off shore production is available to support your supply chain structure and objectives. US based manufacturing, along with sub assembly and final assembly manufacturing in China and Central America enables us to achieve the best balance between cost and proximity. All manufacturing locations adhere to our Bicron Production System and supports our goal of “no surprises”.  Some elements include:
    • Time-based Management
    • Work Teams with Visual Controls
    • Preventative-Predictive Maintenance
    • Flexible Cellular Manufacturing
    • Single Piece Work Flow
    • Kanban Material Management
The Bicron Production System is the foundation for partnership programs with our customers which enables us to respond to your needs quickly and in innovative ways. It lets us work together to reduce not only product costs, but also many indirect costs such as inventory, engineering and quality administration, resulting in:
    • Lower total product cost
    • Higher Quality
    • Responsive delivery scheduling
    • On-time delivery

Quality
ISO9001 and the AIAG “Five Pillars of Quality” are the foundation of our ongoing quality improvement programs. Whether your requirement is for 100 or 100,000, domestic or off shore produced, our quality processes include:
    •QS and ISO 9001 Quality Standards
    •Statistical Process Control (SPC)
    •Production Parts Approval Process (PPAP)
    •Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
    •Measurement Systems Analysis (MSA)
    •Advanced Product Quality Planning and Control Plan (APQP/CP)

Supply Chain Management (SCM)
Whether on shore or offshore, our experience in SCM was developed through over 10 years of experience as a supplier to Fortune 500 companies. EDI, logistics, QA audits, safety stock, VMI and Kan Ban are a few of the elements in SCM we currently provide our customers, both foreign and domestic. >>>Back to top of page.