[labnetwork] Foundry Service Considerations

[julia.aebersold at louisville.edu]

Jacob, can you more thoroughly define foundry work?  We do lots of service work for internal and external clients where we charge established process rates + labor.  We have the capacity to do service work, training and maintenance of the facility.  We quote processes for projects, but always say up front that if additional processing or development is needed then the final invoiced price can change.  However, we have guidelines that delineates processing and development of IP.

Cheers!

Julia Aebersold
Manager, Micro/Nano Technology Center
University of Louisville
Shumaker Research Building, Room 233
2210 South Brook Street
Louisville, KY  40292
(502) 852-1572

http://louisville.edu/micronano/

From: labnetwork-bounces at mtl.mit.edu [mailto:labnetwork-bounces at mtl.mit.edu] On Behalf Of Jacob Trevino
Sent: Wednesday, May 3, 2017 12:25 PM
To: labnetwork at mtl.mit.edu
Subject: [labnetwork] Foundry Service Considerations

Hello All,

For those facilities that take on foundry service projects, I am curious if you have a model that you recommend. For example, is it simply the standard hourly rate plus some hourly engineering charge? What other factors do you consider when developing a cost structure for the potential new client? How do you quote if there is some small development work involved? How do you balance the income that can be generated from these activities verses pulling critical staff time away from training and maintaining the facility?

Any and all thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Best regards,
Jacob


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