at the right cost
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Electronics manufacturing services
Optimise your purchasing efficiency: minimise risks while improving your price performance and accelerating the time to market. On-time delivery guaranteed.
Our team of experts has extensive experience with electronics manufacturing, prototyping, product verification, volume production and logistics. We’ll help you renew product features, improve price performance and accelerate the time to market without ever compromising on high-quality production standards.
With our proven in-house laboratories and Quality Control System, based on 25 years of development and refinement of the best practices, processes and tools in electronics design and manufacturing, you’ll get technically superior electronics at the best price-performance ratio.
We’ve mastered the supply chain management to the level where we can guarantee on-time delivery. All processes are managed by an advanced IT system that provides for effective material and resource planning, trackability and accountability.
At all stages, you have a unique overview of the electronics manufacturing process. Peace of mind guaranteed.
“Our partners value us for our constant improvements. Our ability to listen to their needs together with our flexibility and responsiveness are our way of exceeding their expectations, minimising the risks and setting up the basis for long-term relationships.”
PCB Assembly and Production Process
The processes are organised according to the ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 standards and are managed with ERP-type information systems which allow effective material and capacity resource planning, material and process traceability and accountability.
An overview of the PCB assembly process involved in building a surface mount technology (SMT) board using pick and place techniques.
There are several individual stages in the electronics assembly/production or manufacturing process of a printed circuit board. However, they must all work together to form an integrated overall process. Each stage of the assembly and production must be compatible with the next, and there must be feedback from the output to the input to ensure that the highest quality is maintained. In this way, any problems are quickly detected and the process can be adjusted accordingly.
PCB assembly process overview
The various stages in the PCB assembly process include adding solder paste to the board, the pick and place of the components, soldering, inspecting and testing. These processes are all required and monitoring is undertaken to make sure a product of the highest possible quality is created.
Solder paste: Before components are added to a board, the board must be coated with solder paste in those areas in need of solder. These areas are generally the component pads.
Pick and place: In this part of the assembly, the board with the solder paste moves into the pick and place process where a machine containing reels of components picks the components and places them in the correct position on the board. The components are held in place on the board by the solder paste. This is sufficient to hold them in position so long as the board is not disturbed.
To programme the pick and place machine, the required position and component information is derived from the PCB design information. This substantially simplifies the pick and place programming.
Automatic optical inspection (AOI): Machines that can inspect boards and detect poor joints, misplaced components and, in some cases, the wrong component are available.
THT – through-hole technology process: the components are inserted manually (placed by hand) into holes drilled in PCBs and soldered onto pads on the reverse side.
Test: We can test electronic products before they leave the factory: In-circuit test (ICT), Functional Test, Thermal stress test
SMT line:
“Our partners value us for our constant improvements. Our ability to listen to their needs together with our flexibility and responsiveness are our way of exceeding their expectations, minimising the risks and setting up the basis for long-term relationships.”
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Life Cycle Management
Engineering
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Distribution
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PRODUCT TIME
TO MARKET
OPTIMIZATION
Supply chain management
Material management
- Supplier selection and benchmarking
- Purchase of components and subassemblies
- Incoming inspection
- Material handling and inventory management
Logistic services
- Planning and control via an MRP II type information system
- EAN coding
- Warehouse and process traceability conform to automotive industry demands
Industrialisation
- from prototypes to series production
- introduction of new products
- optimising the results of development in terms of manufacturability and applying them to series production
- we can ensure reliable assemblies manufactured at optimal costs and that all quality assurance processes are applied
Prototyping
- from concept to prototypes (samples)
Development & Design
- Digital electronics applications
- Analogue electronics design
- PCB design
- DFM (Design for Manufacturing)
- Design support during a product life cycle
Pre-serial production
- Confirmation of samples before serial production
Serial production
- LEAD-FREE ready
- SMT automatic assembly, reflow in an inert gas atmosphere
- THT manual assembly, wave soldering in an inert gas atmosphere
- Product assembly
- AOI – Automated optical inspection
- Box-build, packaging and worldwide delivery
- ICT & functional testing
- Development and building of custom testing devices
Product support
- Repairs
- Refurbishment and modification
- Technical assistance
Quality assurance
- Quality management system certification: ISO 9001
- Environmental management system certification: ISO 14001
- Development process certified according to: ISO 13485 (medical)
- AOI: Automated optical inspection
- ICT & functional testing
- Development and building of custom testing devices
