Micro-Mirror Array Technology Introduction

A venture-funded startup company had developed a novel scheme for making a micro-mirror array on a silicon chip with performance similar to the digital light processors (DLP) produced by Texas Instruments. The technology was quite complex and the company was having a great deal of difficulty introducing the product into volume manufacturing. This expert consultant was hired to assess the technology and make recommendations as to how they should scale up to volume production. The technology was found to be quite sound although the manufacturing flow was partitioned in a way that made production difficult to manage. However, the company had seriously under-estimated the cost and time required to establish and qualify vendors, equip the manufacturing facility, and establish themselves in the market. When this expert consultant provided them with an aggressive and realistic plan for partitioning the manufacturing and scaling up production, the costs were determined to be unacceptable to investors and the company was closed, thereby saving the investors considerable money that they might have invested before finding it was insufficient to lead to company profitability.

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