Wire Wrangling:

the ablated wire case

The Challenge: A global device customer required a long and precise insulated wire component. The component has very tight tolerance sections where insulation is removed through laser ablation, causing its own challenges in achieving a high state of control and normalized processes. Ultimately, this precision component needed to be transferred to the customer’s offshore manufacturing facility once qualified. Most importantly, the new product was a Top Five corporate initiative with a six-month lead time until launch.

The Avicenna Solution: We re-engineered our existing wire handling and laser ablation system to achieve a high degree of process control for the tight tolerance ablation section. Avicenna purchased and qualified advanced measuring equipment to meet the customer requirements. We did all this through a cross-functional project team that worked daily with the customer to validate the process, and qualify and transfer the product offshore.

The Customer Gain: Our customer secured sustainable supply of a worrisome precision component that once jeopardized a top-level corporate initiative. Through process validation and component qualification, the customer met their new product launch date and then successfully transferred the component offshore, all within three months.