Medical Electronics Company Finds the Cure for Filtration Challenges

When a maker of medical-grade equipment needed filters to protect kiosk computers, Duraflow Industries diagnosed a series of challenges and prescribed solutions that helped keep the bottom-line healthy.

• The medical electronics company, a designer of health-monitoring equipment, saved money on procurement and inventory while keeping orders from leaving the U.S. and going overseas.  
• The air filters that Duraflow supplied supported quick-turn prototyping and combined effective air filtration with reliable EMI shielding.
• Duraflow worked directly with the contract manufacturer that builds the equipment and promoted efficiency from prototyping through product delivery.

As the medical electronics company discovered, Duraflow Industries doesn't just provide high-quality products like aluminum-frame filters with wire-mesh EMI shielding. Rather, Duraflow adds value to electronics industry projects by strengthening the entire supply chain. Lean manufacturing, accelerated lead times, and a commitment to customer communications are also part of the Duraflow advantage.   

Cost-Effective Procurement and Inventory Management

The maker of medical-grade equipment could have sourced kiosk components from Asia, but there's more to cost control than just a low per-piece price. When overseas suppliers require U.S. companies to buy high volumes in order to receive discounts, the true costs of these transactions include parting with precious cash and paying to store large quantities in inventory. Often, there are concerns about quality and vendor communications, too.

Duraflow Industries offers a cost-effective alternative to offshoring. For this project, Duraflow provided the medical electronics company with a minimum order quantity (MOQ) of 2000 filters over 6 months. In addition, the project was quoted in batches so that neither the electronics company nor its contract manufacturer had to pay to store unused quantities. Instead, Duraflow produced the filters that were needed, stored finished goods in its warehouses, and released shipments on-demand.

Increased Efficiency from Prototyping to Product Delivery

From its headquarters near Cleveland, Ohio, Duraflow Industries also worked closely with the electronics company's contract manufacturer to develop a prototype. Then, once the design was finalized, Duraflow's attention to details like packaging and shipping meant that the contract manufacturer received on-time deliveries of parts that were easy-to-track and ready-to-install. 

Duraflow develops close relationships with contract manufacturers and often works with these companies across multiple projects. In fact, the way that the electronics company for this project found Duraflow was through its contract manufacturer's recommendation. For businesses that design, build, and sell medical electronics, Duraflow is the cure for filtration challenges.

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