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Product Design
Creative
The Uchee Group design team has specialized for over 10 years in designing and developing products for the orthopedic brace , we feel confident in our ability to come up with products in your market to fuel your continued growth. Guided by our innovative approach, we've built up an impressive resume of clients who look to us to not only manufacture their products but to also come up with designs and comments. Working with our customers, we collaborate with them to develop exactly what they want, based on market trends, style, materials, colors and target price points. Once initial concepts and designs are completed, we will submit them for our customer's comments, approval and make changes accordingly. Once this process is complete and our customers have approved the final designs, we move into the development phase. At that point we will proceed in making the first sample.
Orthopedic brace product design
Product Development
Management
Once your product has been finalized and confirmed in the "design" stage it then moves into the development phase, also known as " the sampling process". This is where Uchee executes all aspects of creating the first sample. Uchee will order the appropriate materials and accessories that will be needed to make the initial samples. Once finished the sample(s) will be sent to our customer for design, fit, and testing approval. Should there be any changes or modifications required to the first sample based on our customers comments, we will remake the sample based on their comments, in some cases this may be repeated a few times until the samples are perfect. By working as a "team" and by having good communication with our clients, Uchee ensures the development of your products in a timely fashion with outstanding quality, with all of the requirements met. Once the sample is confirmed by our customers and an order is placed, we then will start production.
Our Development team
Materials
Uchee offers a wide variety of innovative fabrics, webbings, velcro buckles in many different colors and textures to meet the needs of all of their customers. We keep our sample room stocked with many main fabrics and accessories so we can develop samples for you within days with our available materials. All of our materials used are tested in-house as well as being sent out for testing by other independent agencies such as SGS.
Uchee is constantly seeking out new and innovative materials and accessories to fuel the ongoing development of the products they create. For production we are able to use our in-house material or purchase any material our customer's request.
Production
Quality Control
Our workers are trained prior to each production run by work group managers to ensure that each component is made precisely according to approved pre-production samples. Throughout this process a rigorous Quality Control system is in place to ensure the final product quality meets the high standards our customers expect. We implement Japanese Kaizen principles ensuring continued improvement for all aspects of production and final Quality Control. AQL standards are set and every section has both in-line and final QC inspection. At Uchee, we also welcome your outside QC team to visit at any stage of the production process. Photos can also be sent to our customers throughout the production process per their request.
Cutting of materials
Upon receiving fabrics, metal or plastic from our material suppliers, our factory inspectors will inspect them for any possible defects before production. When the order is scheduled for production the mataries will be placed on the cutting table in layers. Markers made for each panel of the product will be placed on top of ,material pile and we will begin the cutting process with our specialized tools.
Embroidery and Printing
Embroidery or printing will take place before the products reach our sewing lines. It is necessary for the fabric panels to lie flat on the embroidery machine or the printing table, which cannot be achieved if the on an already finished product. For embroidery we use the highly respected Japanese Tajima embroidery machines and use imported inks for printing.
Sewing
At Uchee we use a range of quality computerized sewing machines. The printed or embroidered panels will be passed to the sewing lines where they are being stitched together with other fabric panels, zippers, handles, badges and strips of Velcro into a fully constructed product.
Seam Taping & Waterproofing
For sports and orthopedic brace that need to be waterproof we use seam taping machines to tape the exposed seams.
Assembling & Finishing
When products leave our material processing sewing lines they will go to the assembling section where the remaining accessories will be put on. If brace require a plate bottom it will be mounted here together with studs, if any. Other accessories such as hooks and snaps will be put on the brace here before they are passed to the quality control section.
Packaging
We normally pack according to our buyers' requirement and as such use no standard cartons. Most products are packed in individual clear polybags and then packed into strong 7-ply export cartons guaranteeing a safe transport to destination. We can also print custom polybags and cartons at our customer’s request. We do not recommend using shipping cartons that are too heavy - normal carton gross weights should be 10-20 kilos.
