New Product Design

CUNO Inc. is the world leader in the development of innovative water purification solutions for the OEM market. Our team has developed systems for a broad range of industry applications including:

OEM Appliance/Refrigeration Market: CUNO is the OEM manufacturer for most of the leading appliance companies world-wide. Our customers rely on us for innovation, quality, speed and expertise.

OEM Small Appliance Market: CUNO has extensive experience successfully creating and manufacturing POU countertop appliances for a variety of global customers.

OEM Outdoor Market: CUNO systems are used world-wide to purify water from questionable sources.

New Product Engineering Specialists
The expertise of our new product design team is unmatched in the industry. Design engineers, product designers, manufacturing engineers and water purification experts concurrently engineer products. Working closely with our OEM customers, the CUNO team can develop a custom solution to any water purification application in record time.

RD & E Resources:

• All engineering disciplines, chemistry, polymer science, microbiology, molecular biology
• Industrial Design
• Relationships with leading Universities including University of Connecticut, University of Arizona, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology

CAD Solid Modeling Technologies: 3D Mechanical design and dynamic model animation technologies help our engineers produce high quality solutions that are efficient to manufacture.

Laboratory Resources:

• Analytical
• Microbiology
• General Filtration/ Engineering
• Pilot Plants

ISO Product Development - 6 Sigma Standards*: Design and development procedures and standards include:

• Design and development plan
• Verifications to confirm design assumptions
• Validation to prove assumptions
• Design reviews
• Company-wide quality planning
• Six sigma manufacturing quality standards*
• Automation and cost-reduction objectives
• Continuous process improvements

* Minnesota manufacturing facility