Design services cut time to market

Jaltek's offering speeds the whole "to market" process, thanks to design, analysis and simulation capabilities that expose products to a virtual manufacturing line as they are being designed.

Jaltek however has made acquisitions to ensure that it can deliver an integrated design and manufacture service (IDMS) solution that seamlessly brings together all elements of the process under one roof.

The company aims to cut time to market, reduce costs and improve quality.

This is not an easy task, especially where sophisticated high-speed, high-reliability products are concerned.

Such products are rarely designed right the first time.

Their development typically involves several design-prototype-test iterations whose purpose is to identify and eliminate design faults.

These iterations are a real bottleneck in the front-end design process, as design, machine and test time must be co-ordinated and scheduled and results discussed and processes agreed between professionals who may be on different continents in different time zones and speak different languages.

It becomes clear that each iteration requires considerable time and money and can be a frustrating process.

It also becomes clear that speeding the individual functions is less effective than integrating and optimising the entire design-to-NPI cycle.

Jaltek offers Europe's electronics, OEM and EMS companies a flexible service.

New Business Manager David Sproule said: "We see ourselves as an enabler, so our offering is uniquely open-ended, allowing clients total freedom to continue to do what they do well, enhancing this with the services they need from us, at the level they need it, be it design, prototyping, NPI, software design or volume manufacturing".

Front-end services include the design of FPGA and DSP, high-frequency RF and complex assemblies such as double-sided PCAs with uBGAs and 01005 components.

It also provides a wide range of inspection and test techniques.

"Smaller niche electronics companies come to us as they may not have the in-house capabilities or capacities necessary to design new products, while Tier-1 and Tier-2 EMS providers, knowing that we do not compete with them for their core manufacturing business, rely on us to get them to volume manufacture more quickly, more efficiently and with less scrap than they are used to", Sproule said.

Jaltek's offering speeds the whole "to market" process, thanks to design, analysis and simulation capabilities that expose new products to a virtual manufacturing line even as they are going through Jaltek's design process.

Jaltek's designs, once completed, are typically 100% ready for manufacturing, cutting time, costs and frustration from the design process.

Its open-ended production management software simplifies transfer of the production-ready design to the client's selected manufacturing facility, wherever this might be in the world.

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