Shenzhen Huikon Electric Technology Co., Ltd.

Role: Co-founder & Technical Lead

Period: January 2024 – January 2025

Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

🎯 High-Pressure Solenoid Valve R&D Breakthrough

  • Situation: Core product — high-pressure solenoid proportional valve for high-power laser cutting machines — faced technical bottlenecks in pneumatic control precision. Market competitors were limited in maximum pressure, restricting the product's competitiveness in industrial automation.
  • Task: As technical lead, responsible for the full product lifecycle from design to prototype validation, breaking through the pneumatic control barrier and ensuring the product meets precision manufacturing standards.
  • Action: Responsible for solenoid valve drawing, specification definition and tolerance control; used production data to iteratively optimize tolerance ranges; conducted multiple rounds of testing and data-driven performance tuning, continuously improving valve body design.
  • Result: Successfully broke through to 2.5MPa in pneumatic control, reaching industry-leading levels. Product consistency and quality control significantly improved, expanding application potential in industrial automation.

🎯 Cross-Functional Team Coordination

  • Situation: As a startup, the team involved multiple functions (hardware design, PCB development, sales) without mature cross-department coordination mechanisms. Product development progress was limited by communication efficiency.
  • Task: Establish an efficient cross-department collaboration process to ensure product development aligns with market needs and projects are delivered on time.
  • Action: Proactively built cross-department communication mechanisms, organized regular product review meetings, quickly transmitted market feedback to R&D; coordinated hardware and PCB teams to advance in sync, eliminating information silos.
  • Result: Effectively overcame dual challenges of technical R&D and team dynamics. Product development speed and team collaboration efficiency significantly improved.

🎯 Supply Chain & Quality Management

  • Situation: As products moved from prototype to mass production, raw material quality was uneven and supply chain processes were incomplete, causing quality fluctuations during production and affecting delivery.
  • Task: Establish a comprehensive supplier management system and production quality monitoring process to ensure products meet quality standards at every stage while improving production efficiency.
  • Action: Responsible for supplier screening and communication, strictly enforcing raw material quality standards; established quality monitoring indicators through production data analysis, continuously optimizing production processes; promoted standardized procurement of high-quality components.
  • Result: Product quality stability significantly improved, delivery on-time rate ensured; supply chain efficiency increased and product market competitiveness enhanced.

🎯 Market Research & Product Positioning

  • Situation: The solenoid valve market was competitive, and as a new entrant with high market demand uncertainty, precise product direction was needed.
  • Task: Conduct in-depth research on target markets and industry needs, analyze competitive landscape, and provide data-supported decision-making for product design.
  • Action: Proactively researched target markets, analyzed technical trends and user pain points in the solenoid valve industry; collected customer feedback and performed data-driven product iterations.
  • Result: Despite uncertain market demand, successfully developed a high-pressure solenoid valve prototype that met market requirements, and product performance was optimized and recognized by target customers.

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