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For the final leg of our creative
journey, I've come to Silicon

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Valley to learn more about the one
thing that will ultimately

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bring a product to market: manufacturing. This is

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"Engineering Big Ideas." Presented by Mouser Electronics, Molex, Intel,

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Analog Devices and Microchip Technology.

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How do you know when a design's ready? How do you pick the
right partner?

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Let's talk to the team at pioneering electronics manufacturer VSE to see

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what advice they have for new product
innovators. So what does VSE do

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exactly, Beth? VSE works with innovators
to bring ideas to life.

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Our specialty is bringing new products
to market whether that

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be at home inventors to some multi-billion-dollar companies

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that are also innovating new products
for their designs.

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We specialize in low-volume, high-mix 
manufacturing. Rather than us

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building three or four different
products for our customers in

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very large volume, we focus on building
thousands of different

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assembly numbers for a much smaller
select group of customers.

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What are some qualities that an
innovator should be looking for

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in a manufacturing part? At this
point, they've graduated from

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the garage shop, if you will, and
they're really looking for someone who

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can actually start proving out that
it's capable and it's

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repeatable in a manufacturing environment.
There's a high rate

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of change that occurs on these pieces
of equipment as opposed

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to the very large model where machines
are set up, it's in a

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blacked-out factory, they hit go and
it goes through and builds

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a hundred thousand units. So you
can you can move a lot more

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quickly. Which is higher efficiency. More savings for your client.

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And it really is focusing on that earliest, first

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customer shipment to ensure that our customers are really getting their

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products to market much faster than
our competition. So what's

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the advantage of being local, essentially,
here in Silicon

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Valley versus, say, an offshore manufacturer?
They're welcomed

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into our factory and they can see
what their product goes

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through and they can see every iteration
of it and we can take

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them the brand new thing that's
fresh out of our quality

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control and say it's ready. Let's
plug it in together, let's

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test it in your unit and see if
it works. There's a lot of different people

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that can just solder products
to printed circuit boards, but

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what we specialize in is really that
engineering and helping

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them develop and bring their
products to market. The most

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rewarding part of what I do is really
seeing a concept become

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reality and seeing how that enhances
our lives.

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We’ve walked through the innovation process from discovery
to designing and

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refining a prototype and finally manufacturing.
The creator's journey is

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never an easy one. But as we've
seen in this series, the tools

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and resources and personnel are
out there if you know where to

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look. Now that we've shown you a
little bit of what's being

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engineered today. It's your turn
to engineer what's next. This

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has been the development phase of
Engineering Big Ideas.