Keesjan Engelen

Entrepreneur. In 1994 I came to Taiwan, and I have been working in electronic product development in Taiwan & China ever since. What I have discovered is that to get to market FAST, you need to take time to prevent delays. The most important way to do that is early supplier involvement. In the early years of Titoma I worked with Chinese ODM factories to do the majority of the electronic development, but as hard as we worked, that approach had a lot of problems, No. 1 being that it took ages. When I finally realized that new product development will never be a priority for a factory, we started doing all design of mechanical parts, electronic hardware and firmware in-house. You can read more about my China manufacturing lessons learned here: https://www.titoma.com/china-odm-factory-designs-7-pitfalls-to-avoid/ The name Titoma stands for: Time To Market. Our "Magic Sauce" is to avoid delays by involving key Chinese (component) suppliers the design very early on. We engineer and manufacture embedded electronic products, often around STM32, Bluetooth from Nordic and WiFi from ESP. Many are wirelessly connected, Internet Of Things (IoT) and we also make industrial equipment. Most of our clients know they need to manufacture in China, because of its supplier ecosystem and cost. They have tried dealing with the manufacturers in China themselves, but eventually got tired of the persistent disconnect between their design team in the US and the factory in China. With us doing both Design AND Manufacturing, we save them time, aggravation and a quite a bit of money. We do our design in our Taiwan and Colombia offices, most manufacturing in China, and some high value & complex production in Taiwan. If you're an established B2B company needing a Reliable Custom Device, on Time and on Target, we should talk! Please connect with me at case@titoma.com