The product has been designed, the assembly process laid out and the appropriate technologies selected. Now all you have to do is pitch the project to the person who signs the checks.

Writing equipment specifications is a critical but often overlooked facet of every assembly project. Equipment specifications are a prelude to issuing RFQs and, with appropriate revisions, become part of the actual purchase order for the equipment.

Basic questions about the product have to be addressed before requests for quotations (RFQs) are issued for an assembly project.

To maintain market leadership, Becton Dickinson had to reconfigure its operations to assemble new, more complicated medical devices--and do it quickly.