| Governed by LinkupCommercial intake, engineering review, route planning, quality expectations, progress follow-up, and release coordination stay under Linkup governance. | CAD intake and DFM review | A human review connects drawings, CTQs, materials, finishes, quantities, and timeline to a manufacturable route before quote lock. | STEP/PDF review, datum and tolerance risk notes, magnet or motion-interface assumptions | DFM notes, CTQ table, clarification log, and quote-stage route assumptions. |
| Governed by LinkupCommercial intake, engineering review, route planning, quality expectations, progress follow-up, and release coordination stay under Linkup governance. | RFQ route planning and supplier coordination | Linkup selects and coordinates the execution route based on process fit, lead time, inspection access, and program sensitivity. | CNC route selection, prototype-to-pilot handoff plan, NDA-controlled file routing | Route notes, RFQ checklist, revision references, and commercial handoff records. |
| Governed by LinkupCommercial intake, engineering review, route planning, quality expectations, progress follow-up, and release coordination stay under Linkup governance. | Inspection and document-pack expectations | The expected evidence is scoped before sample release so the buyer knows which checks support acceptance. | CMM or gauge report scope, runout or balance checkpoints, material, finish, CoC, or shipment records | Inspection summary, document-pack list, acceptance gate, and release notes. |
| Partner-routedQualified manufacturing partners execute approved machining, finishing, assembly, inspection, balancing, packaging, or shipment tasks by program scope. | Precision machining and finishing | Approved partners execute CNC machining, finishing, and process-specific work under the route assumptions Linkup communicates. | 3/4/5-axis CNC parts, housings, carriers, shafts, flanges, anodizing, plating, passivation, or surface finish routes | Process route, in-process notes where scoped, dimensional records, and finish documentation. |
| Partner-routedQualified manufacturing partners execute approved machining, finishing, assembly, inspection, balancing, packaging, or shipment tasks by program scope. | Magnetic or assembly-adjacent steps | Selected magnetic assembly, bonding, alignment, balancing, packaging, or shipment tasks can be routed through qualified partners when the RFQ defines the acceptance method. | magnet carrier bonding assumptions, orientation or retention checks, balance and packaging requirements | Bonding assumptions, orientation notes, balance records, and shipment document pack. |
| Partner-routedQualified manufacturing partners execute approved machining, finishing, assembly, inspection, balancing, packaging, or shipment tasks by program scope. | PM/MIM/SMC screening or execution paths | Advanced process routes are treated as feasibility and execution paths for selected part classes, not as a blanket promise for every geometry. | powder-metallurgy transition screening, micro-MIM feature review, SMC-oriented motor-core feasibility | Feature-screening notes, fallback CNC route, pilot gate criteria, and partner-route qualification notes. |
| Customer-ownedFinal product architecture, system-level validation, proprietary design intent, acceptance thresholds, and certification decisions remain customer-owned. | Final product and system architecture | The buyer owns the final motor, robot joint, magnetic circuit, mechanism, firmware, and product architecture decisions. | motor torque architecture, robot joint module design, controller and system tuning | Customer drawings, system requirements, acceptance criteria, and revision approval. |
| Customer-ownedFinal product architecture, system-level validation, proprietary design intent, acceptance thresholds, and certification decisions remain customer-owned. | Performance validation and certification | Linkup can help align manufacturing evidence, but final performance validation and certification decisions depend on the buyer-defined system test. | system torque or thermal validation, regulatory certification, production acceptance thresholds | Buyer test plan, acceptance thresholds, certification path, and sample approval record. |
| Out of scopeThe magnetic-to-motion thread is a manufacturing-scope map, not a claim of self-owned raw-material-to-robot production. | Self-owned raw-material-to-robot claims | Linkup does not present itself as an owned raw magnet producer, owned motor factory, complete robot joint module factory, or raw-material-to-finished-robot producer. | owned magnet factory claims, owned motor production claims, complete robot module factory claims | Public copy stays tied to component manufacturing support, route governance, inspection evidence, and customer-owned architecture. |
| Out of scopeThe magnetic-to-motion thread is a manufacturing-scope map, not a claim of self-owned raw-material-to-robot production. | Unbounded commodity or no-drawing work | The RFQ path is built for robotics, automation, magnetic/electromechanical assemblies, advanced hardware, complex interfaces, and inspection-critical parts. | lowest-price commodity machining, no-drawing quote requests, unrelated general industrial catalog demand | Qualified RFQs include CAD, drawings, CTQs, material, quantity, timeline, and acceptance context. |