Program
DfM and LRIP support, with DZYNE Technologies
- Status
- Work in progress
- Program type
- Customer engagement
- Program context
- Work under way on a customer program. Work performed for a named customer on their program.
Design for manufacturing and low-rate initial production on Blitz: helping a drone program move from engineering intent toward production readiness.
An Ascendant program. Team experience, including work delivered through Guinn Partners and prior companies, is on the Our Work page.
Challenge
Why customers come to us for this
Drone companies often have a prototype and no route to production. Turning that prototype into a system that can be built again and again, tested, documented and delivered is separate work, and customers are strict about ruggedness, serviceability, supply-chain awareness and reliability.
Drone EngineeringWork performed
- Production-oriented engineering
- Design review and manufacturability improvements
- Supplier and material planning
- Assembly planning
- Quality and inspection documentation
- Low-rate production readiness
- Customer-facing technical documentation
- Ascendant’s role
- Support on DZYNE's program. The aircraft, the production and the outcome are theirs.
- Evidence, attribution and permissions
- Published with DZYNE's approval. What is here is the shape of the work: the aircraft and the production are theirs, and the detail of how it is built is not ours to publish.
Outcome
What we are building toward
The aim is a repeatable engagement for any drone company ready to move from prototype to production, which along the way shows where the real product gaps are: components, fixtures, assemblies, software and test equipment.
The other programs
Modular FPV UAS
Rapidly deployable, modular, field-serviceable systems built around U.S. supply-chain priorities.
MoonTower for Drones
The software and connected-device layer under drone operations: telemetry, fleet and device management, over-the-air updates, support and reporting.
Toward an NDAA-compliant radio link and controller
Reliable video, telemetry and control links to replace systems that depend on a foreign supply chain.