Capabilities

Project Management

Our program management teams are led by dedicated Program Managers who work closely with personnel from all departments. We create dedicated cross-functional teams that are made up from all aspects of the business - engineering, manufacturing, quality, materials management, distribution, marketing, and sales. This group will stay with a project from concept design to distribution, becoming an extension of our customer's own staff.

The Thinkmate philosophy of project management is to get to know our customers well. We want to understand your objectives, priorities, and delivery needs. Together, we can apply the full resources of the company to meet or exceed customer goals. Our dedicated group of Program Managers can lead a project from product concept through end of life, providing customers with support, problem solving and leadership at every phase of a project.

Procurement

Since 1986, Thinkmate has been committed to providing OEMs, VARs, ISVs and Solution Providers with best-in-class components at competitive pricing. The same procurement managers that search the globe for components for Thinkmate customers also work to find components and other materials used in the contract manufacturing process.

The result, is that based on the extraordinary order volumes and existing vendor relationships built by Thinkmate, the Contract Manufacturing Center is able to procure components, stabilize pricing, reduce transaction costs and quoting time, and obtain improved pricing for all contract manufacturing customers.

Assembly

Thinkmate's Contract Manufacturing Center provides complete box-build and full system assembly for high-end computing hardware, our dedicated and experienced staff is able to manage complex assemblies with precision and a focus on quality.

Thinkmate looks at the assembly process as a partnership and is eager to work with the customer to establish program management and manufacturing thresholds that result in a consistent box-build process flow. In addition, the Contract Manufacturing Center has established procedures to incorporate engineering and design changes into the assembly procedure. The goal is to provide a flexible manufacturing strategy that can support customers' pre-production and production requirements.

Quality

The Thinkmate management team pays careful attention to continuous process improvement to deliver the highest achievable quality at the lowest possible delivered cost.

Thinkmate's management team is involved from the beginning of the project. This assures consistency in manufacturing. Our in-house process is reviewed on a weekly basis in order to find ways to improve our manufacturing processes. All processed data, in addition to any customized reports, is tracked and communicated to our customer to ensure our quality standards.

• Proprietary Software Burn-in
• Custom Software Configuration
• Functional and System Testing

Distribution / Logistics

Thinkmate offers full distribution and logistic services to support customers in meeting timely deliveries, assessing risk management for time-sensitive commitments, cost effectiveness and inventory controls.

Service offerings include:

• In-house logistics expertise
• Flexible logistic solutions
• One-stop service solutions
• Vendor Managed Inventories
• Direct Ships
• Drop Ships
• Replacements
• Replenishment