OT: Designer friend in India seeking design contracts

[Terry Pinnell]

My friend Paresh Pai lives in Goa, India. Last Autumn he left his job
as an electronics instructor at a polytechnic for health reasons. He
then set up a 3-man business, Ourem Microsystems, to develop an
annunciator product for a US company. That went from paper to
prototype in a few months and entered the manufacturing stage last
week. But they have no committed future projects.

I'd like to help Paresh. But my only contacts in the electronics
design arena are here in these newsgroups. Although I hesitated before
advertising Ourem like this, I'm hoping I might receive some
constructive suggestions I can pass on. (So far, Paresh is unaware of
my initiative. I'll probably tell him after I've hit Send. Or maybe
after the first positive response <g>.)

Apart from their formative web site at http://www.ourem.com/index.htm
what practical, short-term methods of promotion would the
professionals suggest please? Of course, this is an intensively
competitive field, but I'm optimistic that there might be room in the
USA/European market for Ourem.

--
Terry Pinnell
Hobbyist, West Sussex, UK

 

[John Larkin]

On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 08:57:00 +0100, Terry Pinnell
<terrypinDELETE@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote:

My friend Paresh Pai lives in Goa, India. Last Autumn he left his job
as an electronics instructor at a polytechnic for health reasons. He
then set up a 3-man business, Ourem Microsystems, to develop an
annunciator product for a US company. That went from paper to
prototype in a few months and entered the manufacturing stage last
week. But they have no committed future projects.

I'd like to help Paresh. But my only contacts in the electronics
design arena are here in these newsgroups. Although I hesitated before
advertising Ourem like this, I'm hoping I might receive some
constructive suggestions I can pass on. (So far, Paresh is unaware of
my initiative. I'll probably tell him after I've hit Send. Or maybe
after the first positive response <g>.)

Apart from their formative web site at http://www.ourem.com/index.htm
what practical, short-term methods of promotion would the
professionals suggest please? Of course, this is an intensively
competitive field, but I'm optimistic that there might be room in the
USA/European market for Ourem.

I can't address this marketing problem directly, but I know from sad
experience that fire/security products are dirt cheap and have tiny
profit margins, so that's a bad thing to emphasize. Industrial control
is better, scientific instruments and aerospace are better still.

John

 

[Terry Pinnell]

John Larkin <jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:

I can't address this marketing problem directly, but I know from sad
experience that fire/security products are dirt cheap and have tiny
profit margins, so that's a bad thing to emphasize. Industrial control
is better, scientific instruments and aerospace are better still.

Thanks, John.

--
Terry, West Sussex, UK

 

[John Woodgate]

I read in sci.electronics.design that Terry Pinnell
<terrypinDELETE@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote (in
<3fsu51l86cb70ms46lgj5g2mb0m61e9u11@4ax.com&gt about 'OT: Designer friend
in India seeking design contracts', on Fri, 15 Apr 2005:

Although I hesitated before advertising Ourem like this, I'm hoping I
might receive some constructive suggestions I can pass on.

I've passed your message to a colleague who has stuff designed and made
in Asia and sells it in Europe and USA.
--
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only.
There are two sides to every question, except
'What is a Moebius strip?'
http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Also see http://www.isce.org.uk

 

[Terry Pinnell]

John Woodgate <jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> wrote:

I read in sci.electronics.design that Terry Pinnell
terrypinDELETE@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote (in
3fsu51l86cb70ms46lgj5g2mb0m61e9u11@4ax.com&gt about 'OT: Designer friend
in India seeking design contracts', on Fri, 15 Apr 2005:
Although I hesitated before advertising Ourem like this, I'm hoping I
might receive some constructive suggestions I can pass on.

I've passed your message to a colleague who has stuff designed and made
in Asia and sells it in Europe and USA.

Thanks, John.

--
Terry Pinnell
Hobbyist, West Sussex, UK