Project Development

Project Design Services

We are capable of developing a wide range of electronic products, with all disciplines required for Turnkey development of Electronic products available in-house:

We offer a one-stop solution for product development, including small to medium quantity in-house manufacture and large volume manufacture via strategic partnerships with sub-contractors in the far east..We use in-house PCB manufacturing and EMC test equipment to allow fast-track prototype services, we use the latest CAD/CAM software for PCB design and we have our own PIC and place machines for prototype and production of Surface mount and BGA work.

If required we can help the client define a CRS (customer requirement specification) we will offer offer advice on technologies and techniques that can enhance the product specification at little or no extra cost.

After evaluation of a project's requirements and entering into a commercial agreement with the cleint, we will, depending on the project and the customer's requirements, provide scheduled milestone dates, achievement goals and activities reports, giving the customer visibility of the project progress. On larger projects customers are actively encouraged to visit our premises to view projects as they develop.

We use circuit simulation software to evaluate new designs to reduce prototyping costs and for thorough evaluation of both hardware and firmware before commiting to prototype manufcature.

The PCBs

We design our own PCB's in-house up to 12 layers using our own prototype PCB manufacturing machine that can typically produce a multilayer PCB in a matter of hours. During the development of a product it is quite common that multiple issues of prototype PCB's are required before finalisation of the design. The manufacture of these PCB's not only causes delays in product "time to market", but also development costs soar as PCB's are manufactured in fast turnarounds. We use a a technique known as 'isolation routing' to provide circuit board designs in typically less than an hour. With this technique it is possible to design, 'cut', manufacture and evaluate a PCB in a single day. The reduction in design time aforded by this in house processing, allows new prototypes to be developed and tested very quickly whilst ensuring that they representative of the final product. We carry an array of advanced test equipment to help us evaluate product performance.and if required ensure compliance to defined EMC specifications.

We also offer Prototype PCB manufacture as a service. We can supply single or double side PCB's on a same day turnaround, or while you wait ( by proir arrnagement). We can also provide next day on multi layer boards upto 12 layers. On single or double sided boards and some four layer boards, CAM files received before 9am by email and paid for by credit card can be despatched as finished PCBs for delivery overnight to any destination on the UK mainland.

Educational Pricing

With electronics now part of the curriculum, in many Science, Physics and Engineering Syllabus, students on these courses often need to construct printed circuit boards for their projects. In these cases, one off or multiple boards can be designed and manufactured to the individual specification. Reduced pricing can be offered if the manufacturing turn around is not urgent or if the PCB is not particularly complex.