From the first technical conversation to a part you can mount in your prototype vehicle, we target an 8-week cycle. That target survives because we've broken it down into weeks that each have a single, falsifiable deliverable.

The cycle

• Week 1–2: design freeze + thermal/structural simulation
• Week 3: tooling kickoff for housing and brackets
• Week 4: first article stator + rotor winding
• Week 5: assembly + bench test for first prototype
• Week 6: design review with customer based on bench data
• Week 7: revision + repeat bench test if review found issues
• Week 8: deliver 2–3 final-pre-production units

Eight weeks isn't a marketing number. It's the number we hit because we refuse to start manufacturing tooling before the simulation matches the design intent.

Project Manager — OEM Programs

The cycle slips when customers change requirements after Week 2. We try to surface that risk early in the kickoff meeting — better to have one painful week than three slipped ones.