Arrow Technical

Using our own quality procedures or adapting our style to fit within yours, we can lead you through Concept Development, Engineering Design, Prototype Build, Testing and Design for Volume Manufacture. Our proven procedures minimise your technical risk whilst keeping you involved at every stage.

Our methods are also available to help you manage your own projects or to train your staff how to use our project management techniques.

All our projects are run as a series of modules or stages. Each stage provides the preparatory work to the next. We ask you to pay for 50% of each stage in advance, 35% on completion and the final 15% following a satisfactory review meeting at the end of the stage.

Our usual project management style is to keep the customer informed and involved at regular intervals, To this end, as well as the formal review meetings at the end of each key stage we also hold formal progress meetings at monthly intervals to which clients are invited. In addition, there are other less formal meetings and interactions (telephone and email) as required to pass information both ways to keep up the project momentum.

Each stage has a clearly defined set of objectives and deliverables. Before commencing each stage, you, the client, is presented with a fixed price quotation for that stage. The end stage is indicated with a stage review meeting in which the outcome of the work is discussed and checks that all the objectives and deliverables for the stage have been met and a general agreement is made to proceed to the next stage. In this way, you remain in full control of progress throughout the whole project.

In projects where it is appropriate, we have developed a Concurrent Engineering style which saves a great deal of time by commencing parts of some stages before proceeding stages have been fully concluded. Whilst it can stave up to 30% of project timescales if managed carefully, there are also some technical risks associated with this technique so we will advise you where we think it is safe and appropriate to employ it.