ENGINEERING SERVICES

Our consulting engineering service is a professional service that provides independent expertise in engineering.
The consulting engineering service is aimed to benefit the electronics industry.
Engagement of a consulting engineer is most advantageous when a project has a specific goal, or when expertise is needed to examine or solve a problem.
Teams of knowledgeable experts can fill many distinctive educational, technical, and mechanical roles that can help to solve or prevent any problems.
Our Engineering Consulting support can be provided throughout the whole process, from inception to completion, in order to facilitate the best solutions.

Working as a member of the product development team, our engineers can assist your product designers at any phase of the product development cycle.

ETECH uses multiple platforms for PCB layouts. All that is required is a schematic and a netlist. If you prefer we can create the netlist using our own schematic capture tools. We will work with you to ensure that all design rules are met and that a high quality, reliable layout is produced.

Organizations today are under increased pressure to improve product design as well as manufacturability while reducing costs and development schedules.
Managing components and suppliers is more critical than ever as obsolescence, counterfeit, and non-compliance risks continue to grow.

Our state of the art tools actively monitor your parts lists and keep your team up to date on electronic parts.

Independent design review is a tried and tested method of promoting good design and is a cost-effective and efficient way to improve quality. It offers independent, impartial advice on the design.

An independent design review is one of the best ways for you to lower your development costs and prevent problems. It is always best to catch a design issue before prototyping.

Design reviews include a list of issues found and suggestions to fix them.

So, if your team needs an independent technical expert to talk to and get advice from, or if you would like someone to do a design review of a product you are designing, buying or importing, then please get in touch with us.

The last few decades have brought several new challenges for manufacturing companies.
Manufacturing companies in the developing world market are able to offer products at lower prices.
In an effort to maintain business and achieve growth many manufacturers are continually developing new products to widen their customer base. They must be quick to market with a high-quality product or be left behind.
Properly planned and implemented Design for Manufacturing (DFM) and design for assembly (DFA) processes are enabling companies to develop high quality products in less time at lower production costs. Higher quality at a lower cost usually means more sales and greater customer loyalty.

The goal is to design a product that is easily and economically manufactured. The importance of designing for manufacturing is underlined by the fact that about 70% of manufacturing costs of a product (cost of materials, processing, and assembly) are determined by design decisions. Production decisions (such as process planning or machine tool selection) are responsible for only 20%, with the remaining 10% being other processes involved.

In very simple terms applying a good DFM, integration should reduce the cost and difficulty of manufacturing.

ETECH provides complete Design for Manufacturability (DFM) support, ensuring your products can be produced at the lowest cost, with the highest efficiency, and the shortest time-to-market.

ETECH’s engineering team places emphasis on defect prevention and non-value added process step elimination by analyzing the design data package for common errors relating to the BOM selection, PCB design, and manufacturing materials/processes used to assemble the customer’s product.

• Assembly Materials Selection
• Availability/Alternate Selection
• BOM Analysis
• Component Placement for SMT
• Component Review
• Fabrication Note Review
• Fiducials for Automated Assembly
• Form/Fit Requirements
• Test Point Access
• Land Pattern Review
• Manufacturing Process Parameters
• PWA Manufacturing Analysis
• PWB Depanelization Requirements
• PWB Drawing Review
• Silkscreen Identifiers
• Soldermask Clearance

It is a big challenge for many companies, that manufacture and assemble electronics, to maintain quality without compromising on the costs of quality and non-quality. These two together make the total cost towards maintaining quality of a product, and are involved throughout the project’s life cycle. The primary challenge here is to determine how to trim the overall costs of quality and non-quality.

In this fast-paced and dynamic market space, Electronics manufacturers are challenged by:

• Increasing global competition
• A need to produce the highest quality products
• A continual need to drive down costs
• Supplies sourced from across globe

As a result of these challenges, quality improvement managers in the Electronics industry need real-time visibility to proactively:

• Maximize yields
• Drive down costs
• Reduce waste and scrap
• Optimize processes through continuous improvements
• Ensure part and product traceability

The Engineers at ETECH can apply their vast knowledge to improve your most pressing Electronics quality control challenges.

Rapid prototyping is a key electronic product design service allowing us to help clients turn product innovation and product development concepts into reality.

We have the flexibility to manage a constantly changing bill of materials, evolving PCB designs, and shifting project schedules.