Outsourcing legacy products provides catalyst for innovation

The Requirement

Outsourcing the production of ‘difficult’ legacy products can ease the burden of bringing new products to manufacture. In an effort to focus fully on introducing innovative processes - to support its new range - this customer subcontracted responsibility for its legacy equipment to SMS.

The Challenge

The introduction of a new high-demand medical product had resulted in this customer’s production team being continually distracted by production issues. Given the need for certification - from an accredited Notified Body - outsourcing appeared problematic.

The Achievement

As SMS works to UK, European and US quality standards, we were ideally suited to manufacture this company’s legacy products whilst managing all necessary regulatory issues – freeing up the production team to concentrate fully on their new product range.