LX Group | units for testing and certification. Offsite manufacturing of those units presents time constraints, as the average time for a production and shipping run is eight to 12 weeks. According to Simon, this is a significant period of time in the world of rapid product development. To decrease this time – as well as decrease costs – the company developed a small-scale onshore manufacturing system that has been in operation for several years now. “We now have a rapid prototyping facility that takes lead times down from eight weeks to three days,” Simon says. “Clients appreciate that.” LX’s projects have also been recognised individually. At the 2014 Sydney Engineering Excellence Awards, for instance, the company won the Software and Embedded Systems Excellence Award for their work on Project Caramello Koala. “As a company, we’ve wanted to win that award for a long time now,” Simon explains. “I went to my first awards night about seven years ago, and I actually kept the table decoration and put it on my desk. I thought ‘I
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