Harber Offers Value-Added Services That Improve Your Competitiveness

Harber provides innovative product design, engineering, and manufacturing services to industries such as the Power Utility Sector, Hydraulic Industry, Automotive and various other Industrial sectors. Customer requirements can be as straightforward as reverse engineering a part to complete product design and delivery of volume-produced parts & assemblies from our secure and reliable manufacturing partners in China.

The cornerstone of Harber’s operation is cost, quality, and delivering the best possible solution to customers to meet their needs over the longer term. But Harber has many other benefits which customers can draw on.

Harber Industrial main Advantages

Metal Part Design

It can be difficult to design good parts and products, a diverse range of skills is required to get the best possible results and strike a perfect balance between numerous parameters outside of the form fit and function. But quite often the part design is not really the issue, with 3D software, anything can be created but understanding the manufacturing processes and manufacturing efficiency used to make parts can be a challenge.

One of the common drivers in developing new parts is reducing cost, simplifying the product, reducing part numbers, and improving performance. In order to do this most effectively a very broad range of skills is required.

Harber has developed and honed many of these skills over the years and can help customers achieve their design goals both from an engineering and commercial point of view.

Process Engineering

A key function within the manufacturing of constantly good quality products is the process that needs to be engineered to a high level. Harber has vast experience in this area working with a diverse range of suppliers and manufacturing processes. We actively share this knowledge base with customers when it comes to developing a process that will yield sustainable quality parts over time.

Manufacturing Strategy

Having a manufacturing strategy for parts and products is key to the success of most projects and many customers struggle in this area. Harber is very lucky to be able to take an impartial view on the manufacturing solution required which can greatly benefit customers. Quite often customers are indirectly forced into a design solution based on existing or traditional manufacturing processes or based on existing supplier relationships or even internal capabilities but this can be an inefficient solution for the customer or market sector.

For example, if your product tends to have a lot of CNC Machined parts then this manufacturing process can dominate the overall product solution and quite often there are better options. Harber can review the design solution and offer more efficient and appropriate manufacturing options that best suit the customer and the market sector.

Clear Communication

The lack of effective communication or poor communication is one of the main reasons for failure when dealing with the Far East. That’s just when considering day-to-day business transactions not to mention any communications of a technical nature. Time differences are also an issue when dealing with the Far East. Harber removes all of these nightmares for its clients, dealing in English at normal working hours here in Ireland.

IP Protection

A significant worry for OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers) is the protection of its IP (intellectual property), and these concerns are well-founded when looking to outsource to the Far East.

However many if not all of these OEMs need the cost reductions to maintain margins and more importantly increase market share and Harber is very much aware of this when outsourcing on behalf of its customers.

Harber takes the time to understand the exact requirements from the customer and communicates these requirements without disclosing the end-user, market sector, or final function of the part or assembly and in this way offers the first level of protection in customers IP. In many cases, a more complex sourcing strategy is required and implemented by Harber.

RETURN ON INVESTMENT (ROI)

Fundamentally ROI is the overarching parameter for most projects and Harber has always had a keen eye on overall cost at all times. Having the freedom and capability to evaluate all aspects of a project whether its tooling costs, part cost, and material costs, Harber can use all of its experience to offer the best strategy for any part or product.