This start-up semiconductor company was about to kick-off a major development program that relied heavily on combination of teams designing the IC, embedded firmware, host software and hardware but didn’t have the expertise to know how to pull this together to deliver on target.

Watermeade analysed the different aspects of the program, assessed the risks, determined the team skill gaps and then established a set of processes and procedures to enable its delivery.

Following on from this the company requested that Watermeade manage the program from concept through to delivery. This involved developing and agreeing a budget, putting a plan in place with regular/measurable milestones and establishing project teams to deliver on each aspect of the program. This culminated in right-first-time delivery of the project to customers on time.

This software company developed a SaaS product enabling enterprises to get the most out of their intellectual property assets but needed greater management bandwidth in order to grow their business.

Watermeade added instant capacity to the team enabling them to concentrate on some of the key sales and product development activities whilst we applied our expertise to carrying out business development and channel analysis as well as looking at how best to structure Engineering to support scaling.

During this project Watermeade developed customer-facing collateral enabling the company to increase its customer base and made recommendations to expand its business model into new areas. Additionally, it made recommendations for engineering best practices and structure to support the growth. The company has now successfully grown to include major hi-tech, bio-tech and medical device companies as its customers.

This company was transitioning their business from design services to the delivery of turnkey ASICs and therefore needed someone to set up the NPI (New Product Introduction) processes and put a full supply chain in place through third party partners.

Watermeade established relationships with silicon foundries as well as OSAT (outsourced assembly and test) partners for the supply of prototype and production devices. They also set up NPI service partnerships to design & simulate device packages, develop ATE test solutions (test programs, final test load boards, wafer probe cards) and provide reliability qualification services (including hardware development and stress testing).

In addition, Watermeade developed customer-facing contracts for NPI and product supply and created procedures, templates and forms covering the services to support the company's ISO 9001 certification.

These partnerships, processes and services enabled the company to broaden out their services to their customers thus generating recurring multi-year revenues rather than the previous situation of one-off contracts for design services.