Industry:
Wearables - Leading Sportswear Company
Application:
Wearable wrist band activity tracker
Opportunity:
The customer was dealing with a complex application and while working with others could not attain a successful Flex Circuit design that would perform against the requirements for the application at hand.
The Customer had been going through the design and development process with other suppliers related to designing a flex circuit for a wrist worn athletic/activity tracker. The product was to contain a complex and dynamic flex circuit. Prototypes from multiple flex suppliers had all failed to survive over molding and bending tests. The customer was becoming discouraged as attaining a successful design was proving to a difficult challenge while development costs continued to rise and the timeline continued to slip.
Solution:
FCT was called in to review the design. Several design changes were recommended and made related to the design, construction, and conductor routing. FCT supplied proto-type flex circuits using the new enhanced design and the new circuits performed perfectly while meeting the demands of the application and meeting customer expectations.
Result:
FCT was able to develop a successful solution to this challenging application where others could not. Based upon the outstanding performance of our design the customer was able to achieve one of the most successful product launches to date within the Wearables market. FCT’s superior design expertise coupled with providing a flex solution at a competitive price led to a successful program and satisfied customer. We also supported the customer with inventory/stocking program in meeting their production schedules. FCT produced over 2 million of these circuits in production and was the sole source for this large and successful program.
