NAOX: Integrated sports cap & sunglasses
NAOX needed help with design, engineering including material selection, prototyping and production.
- Key challenges: Working with a large number of suppliers covering different fields (textiles, PVC, plastic injection, silicon, packaging, logistics…), designing reliable and effective system to hold the glasses.
- Examples of design improvements we provided: The glass insertion system was developed and improved to meet comfort, cost, usability requested
- Time from design to functional prototype: 8 months
- Applicable certifications for selling in the EU & USA: FDA
- Tooling necessary for mass production: plastic injection
- Critical components: cap, sunglasses and insertion mechanism
- Minimum order quantity in each color: 200pcs
- Number of assembly workstations: 6
- Highest sources of risks in assembly: glueing process of the nose pad on the glasses.
