Product development · Supply chain · Toronto
From working prototype to production line.
Envest is a hardware product development firm. We run design for manufacturing, supplier sourcing and audits, quality systems and logistics for companies making the jump to volume — the stretch where most hardware stalls.
Dream. Prototype. Envest.
2,000+
Vendors identified and screened
200+
Carried through to direct audited status
5–10%
Accuracy of our predicted target costs against supplier quotes
2016
Founded in Toronto, Ontario
Hardware we have helped bring to volume
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IoT sensors for commercial building operations. Toronto.
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Robotic walking aids for children with mobility impairments. Mississauga.
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A major lighting OEM
Named under NDA.
What we do
Everything between the drawing and the dock
Whether you have a napkin sketch, one missing piece before a launch, or a supply chain nobody has audited in five years.
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Design for Manufacturing
We redesign parts around the process that will actually make them, so tooling, tolerances and material choices survive contact with a factory.
DFM · Tolerance stack · Tooling
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Prototyping
Working parts built in production-representative materials and processes — not something that only looks right on a desk.
3D printing · Machining · Soft tooling
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Supplier Sourcing & Audits
We find, qualify and audit manufacturers in person, then run them through an approval process most of them do not survive.
SAP · In-person audit · RFQ
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Quality Systems
Inspection plans, first article reports and acceptance testing, so the ten thousandth part matches the one you approved.
PPAP · FAI · CMM · FAT
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Engineering Analysis
Cost breakdowns, failure analysis and design review — including predicting what a part should cost before anyone quotes it.
Cost model · DFMEA · Teardown
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Logistics
Moving finished goods by air, land and sea, with the packaging and customs work that goes with it.
Freight · Customs · Packaging
Case study
The lowest quote will not always make you the most money
A vendor at a conference offered a 50% cost reduction on a metal welded assembly we had been manufacturing for years. The audits scraped by. We went to sampling anyway rather than miss the saving.
A year later we wrote off every hour and dollar invested. The supplier had borrowed the equipment, the staff and the factory floor we were shown. Bringing them up to standard would have more than doubled the part cost.
Outlier quotes are usually just that — outliers.
Approach
We would rather make your team better than bill you forever
Traditional design consulting runs on band-aid solutions and short-sighted returns. We work the other way: find the critical issues, fix them, and leave your in-house capability stronger than we found it.
That is what crossing the Valley of Death actually takes — mentorship and sustained guidance, not a deliverable that lands on a shelf.
Read our mission
Contact
Tell us what you are making
- Office
- 344 Westmoreland Ave N
Toronto, ON, Canada - Phone
- (647) 205-0038
- contact@envest.ca