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Partnership
In today's fast changing markets, companies need a competitive edge more than ever in order to thrive. The key to prosperity lies in bringing well designed, highly reliable products to the market more quickly than the competition.
To achieve this, companies must work closely with their suppliers, drawing on their expertise to achieve the most cost-effective, easily manufactured designs. They must make use of the most up-to-date technology. They must take advice on the most suitable materials, on maximising component functions to get the best cost/performance ratio, and on building in quality to achieve reliable, low cost manufacture. They must have support to prototype and test designs and get finished parts into production as quickly as possible.
At Harboro, our main aim is to support you in such ventures. Our success lies in your success - we have no products of our own to rely on.
But this is only the start of partnership. Throughout a product's life there must be regular reviews to reduce costs and to improve future designs. Small modifications can often produce further savings in both the manufacture of the component and on customers' assembly lines. Reviews should look closely at manufacturing data to seek areas where costs can be reduced, production simplified and quality and reliability increased.
Internally, Harboro makes great use of multi-disciplined teams and welcomes contact with others. This can generate new and valuable ideas.
Partnership is two sided. Both partners need to understand each other's needs and aspirations. Relationships must be built which instill confidence and trust in both sides and both must see their future in the relationship. Harboro operates an open book policy with these partners.
It is our aim to seek and develop such partners.
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