The companies signed a framework agreement in 2022 for final assembly and cooperation for long-term production.

“The strategic production partnership and securing long-term volume production is of utmost importance for ReQuTech Partners at this moment. We value our cooperation with Scanfil. Our engineering and production cooperations with our different teams working together over the past years have been a great success”, says ReQuTech CEO Omid Sotoudeh. “The goal is to initiate in 2024 and gradually reach a production of a few hundred RESA M Ku and Ka Multi-Orbit terminals per month by the first quarter of 2025”.

About ReQuTech – develops state-of-the-art fully integrated systems for satellite communications. ReQuTech Electronically Steered Antenna series RESA is developed for Ku and Ka band and is at the moment under trials with major operators. We aim to deliver reliable and robust systems and work with our customers to find the most suitable solutions for each application. www.requtech.se

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Case Toyota: Finding an alternative component within 6 weeks
“At the beginning of September 2022, I got a call from our Chief Procurement Officer, Markku Kosunen. He told me that one of our suppliers had rescheduled their deliveries for a component that we need in our Toyota production, and that the delivery date was postponed until Mid-October,” Reijo starts and continues “He asked me to check if we could find a replacement for the component”. Even if the assignment seemed like a mission impossible, Reijo promised to investigate it.

Reijo immediately reached out to our component engineers and Lars who is the original designer of the product. According to Reijo, the tricky part was the grounded shield in the crystal, which is not common in these components. “Anyway, the team quickly aligned on the technical requirements of the component and started to contact alternative manufacturers. Lars, the original designer of the product, also contacted the customer to agree on the verification activities needed to qualify the new component,” tells Reijo.

Already next day, our component engineer came back with a replacement candidate. “We checked the datasheet, and were excited to see that it seemed to work for us!”, rejoices Reijo.

Immediately, Łukasz from the Global Sourcing Team proceeded to checking the sample availability and lead-time for the first batches with our distributor. He informed that samples for testing were on the way from Hong Kong, and Toyota also gave us a green light for a “risk buy” of the first batch needed in production. The supplier promised to deliver the first batch before our production stop in early October, so the project had gone from impossible to possible within a week from the start.

“By late September, our team in Sieradz had built samples for both Scanfil Åtvidaberg and Toyota to run the needed verification tests, and they both proceeded quickly with the tests. By October 7, we completed the verification tests and had the new crystal in stock. On top of solving the immediate shortage that faced us, the supply chain for Toyota will be much less risky also in the future, since we now have an alternative source for this component,” tells Reijo.

This case is just one example of how we can help to identify and change existing products to help with challenges in the supply chain. We have done similar projects to also other customers, and we have clear processes for running these projects.

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“Scanfil has perfected the ability to integrate its manufacturing knowledge and its way of producing products with the specialized and demanding highly-regulated and defined requirements for medical products and technology,” says Mats Lindblad, director for global quality for Scanfil. “One auditor highlighted Scanfil’s way of utilizing highly modern production methods while complying with high regulatory demands without compromising either.”

One of Scanfil’s medical customers is Jolife. Scanfil’s journey with Jolife, a part of Stryker, started more than 20 years ago. Back then, Jolife AB was a small start-up company located in Lund, Sweden. The company developed and launched the LUCAS chest compression system, which redefined emergency care and helped save lives. It is also a good example of a long and successful manufacturing partnership.

The LUCAS system is now in its third generation. Sara Lindroth, managing director of Jolife AB, a part of Stryker, says, “During our partnership over the last two decades, we have successfully passed many audits by regulatory authorities and have seen steady growth of sold units on a global market.”

For the past 25 years, Scanfil has served companies developing products for medtech, life science, and environmental measurement and analysis. Scanfil has around 3,200 employees with nine factories worldwide in Europe, North America and Asia. These factories offer engineering, development, manufacturing of PCBAs and various mechanics, box build and complex systems integration, distribution, and reverse logistics services.

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