Connect with Verhaert to accelerate your innovation journey

Want to drive your innovation forward? Bringing a new product or digital solution to market comes with many challenges. The key to successful innovation lies in an agile, multidisciplinary approach. By combining user-centric design, deep scientific and engineering expertise, a broad technology portfolio, and strong business insights, Verhaert helps you navigate complexity and turn bold ideas into market-ready solutions.

At our booth, you’ll have the opportunity to explore how this approach can strengthen your product development process.

• AI & smart manufacturing – Learn how artificial intelligence is shaping the future of industrial automation.
• Digital transformation – Explore strategies for creating connected, intelligent and scalable solutions.
• From tech to impact – Explore how early-stage technology integration and testing can accelerate the path to viable, high-impact solutions.
• Fast-track product development – Discover agile prototyping and market validation strategies that help you refine and de-risk your innovation.
• Scaling for success – Learn how to efficiently transition from prototype to full-scale production, ensuring a smooth market introduction.

Claim your free ticket – Strengthen your innovation

Hannover Messe is the world’s leading industrial technology trade fair, bringing together over 4,000 exhibitors and 130,000+ visitors. This year’s theme, “Industrial Transformation – Energizing a Sustainable Industry,” perfectly aligns with our mission to create impact-driven innovations. This is your chance to explore the latest advancements and tailored solutions for your innovation challenges. Get your free ticket today and schedule a meeting with Verhaert at the Flemish Pavilion!

Hannover Messe, March 31 – April 4, 2025
Flemish Pavilion, Hall 8 (Smart Manufacturing)
Register with the ticket code cqEPw to secure your free entry!

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Visit Verhaert Product Innovation and book a personal meeting at your convenience.

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The interest in more local and European manufacturing is not new for several reasons. Besides obvious political and ideological drivers, manufacturers have seen big swings in transportation costs and supply chain disruptions during the past years. Meanwhile, China’s labor cost has risen, along with Western awareness of sustainability and social responsibility. As a result, some appliance manufacturers are considering relocating their manufacturing back to Europe, where they’ll benefit from higher standards, closer proximity to customers, and more stable political and legal systems.

As you navigate this transition, ensuring that your product’s journey from idea to industrialization is seamless and efficient is crucial. To safeguard a consistent quality and effective operation during the industrialization phase, you’ll need a trusted partner to guide you through every production step:

• Supplier management: selecting a manufacturer with the right expertise and facilities to deliver consistent, long-term production quality.
• Manufacturer audit: through rigorous audits, potential manufacturing partners are reviewed to meet the key criteria for your project’s success.
• Testing and precertification: setting up and implementing comprehensive testing throughout the entire product development cycle, from conception to qualification, so your product meets all necessary standards before it hits the market.
• Quality and technical file: specific product specifications, work instructions, maturity grids, and validation documents will guarantee quality at every production stage. 
• Artificial intelligence and machine learning: cutting-edge technology to optimize sustainable production processes, and reduce waste and energy consumption, all while maximizing uptimes.

More and more, product and device manufacturers are showing a growing preference for EU-made components and goods. Why? It’s about avoiding the challenges often associated with ‘Made in China’ products, such as quality concerns, long shipping distances, rising travel costs, and limited control over production processes. The tips in this perspective are based on the hands-on experience of our consultants during recent projects, offering valuable insights to help manufacturers adapt to this growing trend.

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Where product innovation meets manufacturing

Applying design-for-manufacturing (DFM) principles in your product development process will significantly enhance the efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and overall quality of your products. Here’s the million-dollar question: how do you design a product for manufacturing? How do you design a product that ensures a seamless transition from final prototype to mass production?

For maximum efficiency in manufacturing and minimal production costs, it’s crucial to have a clear understanding of how design choices influence these aspects. The product’s shape, for example, has a significant impact on the cost of the injection molding and thus on the total manufacturing cost. DFM includes: simplifying product designs, minimizing the number of parts, standardizing components, and selecting materials that are easy to work with.

Securing success: collaborative design synergy with manufacturers

DFM aims to bring all relevant key players together as early as possible in the design phase. The further along you are in the manufacturing process, the more expensive it becomes to make changes to your design. So early collaboration with designers, engineers, manufacturing partners and others is crucial to integrating manufacturability considerations into the product design. It will enable you to mitigate risks like supply chain disruptions, inflation, and material and labor shortages, while it also facilitates the creation of easily manufacturable designs. Whether your manufacturer operates locally or internationally, regular cross-functional meetings play a pivotal role in identifying potential challenges and aligning design decisions with manufacturing capabilities.

The impact of manufacturing on design and the transformative potential of innovation © Verhaert

Geographical manufacturing: rethinking the location game

Over the past few decades, many appliance manufacturers moved production to Asian hotspots, especially China. Why? The promise of lower labor costs, fewer environmental rules, and a massive market playground. Of course, it hasn’t been all smooth sailing. They’ve hit a few bumps, like rising shipping costs, dips in product quality, intellectual property headaches, tricky trade relationships, and increasing geopolitical tensions.

Given these hurdles, some manufacturers are rethinking their location game. By bringing production back to Europe, they’re looking to tap into top-notch standards, be closer to customers, and enjoy more political and legal stability. Plus, let’s not forget, that choosing the right manufacturing spot before and during the design for manufacturability process is a game-changer. It’s not just about cutting costs, it’s about nailing that perfect product-market fit. Including geographical factors in your DFM strategy can be the secret sauce to your product’s financial and market success.

Curious about the great manufacturing relocation shuffle? Stay tuned for our upcoming perspective in which we’ll explore the tug-of-war between Europe and China!

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