Mr. Spence,

I wanted to share our appreciation for the enthusiastic participation shown by everyone at ASH Industries in supporting our Product lines. As an early-stage growth company, PureWine must prioritize our internal resources while we rely on experts for tasks outside our core competencies. It has been wildly beneficial to have a talented engineering staff co-located in the same facility that produces our tools and provides our injection molded parts. That allows our PureWine staff to focus on the conceptual product design to reinforce our branding message, and define the function performance parameters necessary to meet our product claims. We highly value the direct interaction you provide to your engineering staff, by phone, email and text for proactive resolution of tradeoff opportunities to create best-yielding tools while producing the least costly parts possible.

When we announced our second product line a few months ago, our Stakeholders naturally required us to get competitive quotes from multiple vendors. After successfully working with ASH to improve our first product over the last three years, we were very pleased to see ASH emerge as the winning bidder in a best overall value competition combining design engineering, tooling costs, and per piece parts cost. As you know, that effort on multiple new tools is now well under way to Pilot-Production by end of Q1. Remembering the capability ASH has available to make rapid in-house tooling changes after first sample shots gives us confidence in announcing our product launch schedule.
And finally, we have been astonished by your staff’s ability to make no less than six (6) requested changes to our initial tooling without having to replace the entire tool, which is still producing parts monthly on the machines in your production facility….

We thank you for the hospitality shown during our visit this past Fall. PureWine looks forward to jointly continuing to optimize our JIT inventory management, maximize the production yield, improve robustness, and further minimize COGS through your suggested process improvements.
Best wishes for continued success.

Marshall Wenrich, Project Manager
PureWine Inc.