Pre-Production Run Checking, Testing and Upgrading 📋

We have been working away in the background to get MetMo Multi Drive into production.

The Multi Drive Pre-production run is in! This was much anticipated as we use this run to find out early on if there are any possible issues when scaling up to full production. On the whole the parts looked great, 90% of it was perfect and exactly what we wanted. We did however pick out some parts that were not quite as good as we wanted.

After some intense scrutiny of the collets inside of Multi Drive, and testing 3 new variations in this pre-production batch, we decided to go back to the drawing board. There was a case that when used as a driver the bit holder loosened which we weren't too happy about, so we made some tweaks to remove any issues there.

With some clever production planning it won’t add any extra time to the delivery of the campaign, but it will result in a better product overall and that’s what matters at the end of the day.

On Point, Sharpening

This one has given us a lot more trouble than we were expecting! After testing the pre-production samples we found that the pencil sharpener built in to the metal case wasn't quite right. A slight error in the angle of the blade inside it resulted in a sharpener that made a point remanent of an Inca temple… not ideal really. We went through 9 variations and after a week of tinkering, with what turned out to be quite a complicated process, we modified the design by 0.01mm got it sharpening pencils like a pro!

Packaging

We have been busy designing and getting the final drafts of the printed inserts finished, along with the structural parts of the new packaging for Multi Drive.

Getting everything on order

We have been busy in the background doing a whole bunch of paperwork, approving production runs and setting the factories in motion, and while not flashy or particularly interesting, it is all vital to getting Multi Drive out on time.We have now ordered over 50,000 individual parts, including knife blades, graphite, drive bits, allen keys and a wide range of fun boxes.