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Procuring Custom-Designed Lenses: How to Reduce Risk and Improve Results

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It is crucial that all sides in a joint development and procurement program understand and document the scope of work, expectations and responsibilities of all parties.

Charles Synborski, Melles Griot Optics Group

When lens development programs go awry, the results often include blown schedules, ill-defined nonrecurring engineering programs, overpriced prototypes, rework and worse. To avoid such problems, it helps to establish a seamless line of communications with the system or lens manufacturer early on. The focus should be on shared technical, schedule and budget realities. The entire process depends primarily on open, unambiguous and quantitative (written) communications. If it isn’t possible to clearly articulate the required system specification in terms that an optical engineering and...Read full article

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