1. OVERVIEW	12 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2019
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]
OVERVIEW	NOTE 1 OVERVIEW Forward Industries, Inc. (“Forward” or the “Company”) is a fully integrated design, development and manufacturing solution provider for top tier medical and technology customers worldwide. Through its acquisition of Intelligent Product Solutions, Inc. (“IPS”), the Company has expanded its ability to design and develop solutions for our existing multinational client base and expanded beyond the diabetic product line operations into a variety of industries with a full spectrum of hardware and software product design and engineering services. In addition to our existing design and distribution of carry and protective solutions, primarily for handheld electronic devices, the Company is now a one-stop shop for design, development and manufacturing solutions serving a wide range of clients in the industrial, commercial and consumer industries. The Company’s previous principal customer market has been original equipment manufacturers, or “OEMs” (or the contract manufacturing firms of these OEM customers), that either package our products as accessories “in box” together with their branded product offerings or sell them through their retail distribution channels. The Company’s OEM products include carrying cases and other accessories for medical monitoring and diagnostic kits and a variety of other portable electronic and non-electronic products (such as sporting and recreational products, bar code scanners, smartphones, GPS location devices, tablets, firearms). The Company’s OEM customers are located in: (i) the Asia-Pacific Region, which we refer to as the “APAC Region”; (ii) Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, which we refer to as the “EMEA Region”; and (iii) the Americas. The Company does not manufacture any of its OEM products and sources substantially all of its OEM products from independent suppliers in China, through Forward China. As a result of the expansion of the design development capabilities through its wholly-owned subsidiary, IPS (acquired in January 2018), the Company now plans to introduce proprietary products to the market from concepts brought to it from a number of different sources, both inside and outside the Company. The Company provides clients, both big and small, a true, authentic “one-stop-shop” for product design, development and manufacturing solutions.

1. OVERVIEW

12 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2019

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]

NOTE 1 OVERVIEW

Forward Industries, Inc. (“Forward” or the “Company”) is a fully integrated design, development and manufacturing solution provider for top tier medical and technology customers worldwide. Through its acquisition of Intelligent Product Solutions, Inc. (“IPS”), the Company has expanded its ability to design and develop solutions for our existing multinational client base and expanded beyond the diabetic product line operations into a variety of industries with a full spectrum of hardware and software product design and engineering services. In addition to our existing design and distribution of carry and protective solutions, primarily for handheld electronic devices, the Company is now a one-stop shop for design, development and manufacturing solutions serving a wide range of clients in the industrial, commercial and consumer industries. The Company’s previous principal customer market has been original equipment manufacturers, or “OEMs” (or the contract manufacturing firms of these OEM customers), that either package our products as accessories “in box” together with their branded product offerings or sell them through their retail distribution channels. The Company’s OEM products include carrying cases and other accessories for medical monitoring and diagnostic kits and a variety of other portable electronic and non-electronic products (such as sporting and recreational products, bar code scanners, smartphones, GPS location devices, tablets, firearms). The Company’s OEM customers are located in: (i) the Asia-Pacific Region, which we refer to as the “APAC Region”; (ii) Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, which we refer to as the “EMEA Region”; and (iii) the Americas. The Company does not manufacture any of its OEM products and sources substantially all of its OEM products from independent suppliers in China, through Forward China.

As a result of the expansion of the design development capabilities through its wholly-owned subsidiary, IPS (acquired in January 2018), the Company now plans to introduce proprietary products to the market from concepts brought to it from a number of different sources, both inside and outside the Company. The Company provides clients, both big and small, a true, authentic “one-stop-shop” for product design, development and manufacturing solutions.