Industrial

Industrial solutions — designed to your
exacting standards

Get the flexibility and expertise you need to meet the variable manufacturing needs for your complex industrial products, including clean energy, robotics, capital equipment, industrial devices, and power solutions. 

We’re delivering on advanced manufacturing initiatives with over 30 operations sites worldwide to a fully automated, self-monitoring, next-generation global production and supply network, while also serving as a leading industry advisor for customers on Industry 4.0 adoption.

Join more than 100 leading customers at operations sites that include locations in the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific, with access to more than 4,000 supply chain partners. Accelerate your design vision with direct engineering and design support for fast-growing technologies such as robotics, EV charging stations, and energy storage systems.

Whether you need flexible business models, advanced product design, world-class manufacturing, supply chain management, or circular economy sustainability programs, Flex is here to help.

Capital equipment and robotics

We manufacture complex capital equipment, including robotics, semiconductor, printing equipment, self-service kiosks, gaming equipment, and production and packaging machines.

Learn about our capital equipment and robotics solutions

Industrial devices

We help customers deliver advanced products for automation, instrumentation and control, safety and security, test and measurement, metering, navigation, and tracking.

Learn about our industrial device solutions

Clean energy

We lead in serving fast-growing industrial power solutions markets for EV charging stations, energy storage systems, and renewables.

Learn about our clean energy solutions

Power solutions

Our industrial power supply products, including chargers and adapters, battery systems, and advanced power modules, power everything from laptops to data centers.

Learn about our power solutions

Accelerate your capital equipment and robotics product development cycle

Build your industrial equipment better — and scale your products to market faster — with our regionalization capabilities, resilient supply chain, and our manufacturing design and engineering services.

We manufacture complex capital equipment, including robotics, semiconductor manufacturing equipment, and additive and commercial printers. We also build self-service kiosks, gaming equipment, and production and packaging machines.

Develop your robotics solutions cost-effectively and at scale. With dedicated resources in value engineering, systems platforms, manufacturing, and mass production, we support you from manufacturing design to value-added fulfillment, including forward and reverse logistics.

Our partnership with Brain Corp, a leading AI software developer, allows us to deliver an integrated robotics solution so that customers can quickly respond to market demands. Together, we’re helping customers deliver advanced manufacturing transformative solutions for tomorrow’s workplace.

Capital equipment

Semiconductor manufacturing equipment

The semiconductor manufacturing equipment market demands high-mix, extremely low-volume builds. Along with our knowledge and expertise, we have the physical infrastructure and storage space required to build this large equipment.

We can also configure-to-order with clean room facilities and metal fabrication.

Additive and commercial printers

Leverage our track record of delivering excellence and consistency across multiple printer applications, ranging from large format, labeling, and textile to 3D printing.

Our expertise spans from design, customization, and manufacturing to parts fulfillment and product end-of-life.

Interactive vending and self‑service kiosks

Use our range of technology building blocks to deliver the best end-user experience for self-serve, retail, and entertainment vending machines and kiosks. We help you incorporate Internet-of-Things (IoT) capabilities, intuitive human-machine interface (HMI), appealing material finishes, accurate sensors, optics, robotics, and much more.

Production and packaging equipment

We offer high-complexity, electro-mechanical manufacturing solutions for product and food packaging equipment, cryogenic chambers, and other large-footprint industrial production machinery.

Robotics

Autonomous Mobile Robots and Automated Guided Vehicles

Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) and Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) are vital for industrial and commercial applications. These robots perform pre-determined tasks to help increase production, reduce costs, and minimize errors — while maintaining safe operations to minimize liability and risk-related issues.

Our comprehensive approach to building robots includes design and engineering support, the latest sensing technology, operating software, and advanced manufacturing facilities.

Flex has the capabilities to create your first generation of AMRs or AGVs or upgrade your next generation.

Optimized manufacturing for industrial device delivery

Industrial devices keep the world working. We make the manufacturing process easier for you — with added value every step of the way.

Our experts provide the cross-industry expertise, vertical integration capabilities, and design for excellence services you need to deliver the innovative, high-quality products your customers demand.

Ramp and scale your production quickly with our optimized manufacturing. Lower the risk of interruption or delays with our resilient supply chain and logistics management. And take advantage of our flexible, global manufacturing operations to launch products in multiple markets simultaneously.

Flex offers a complete portfolio of industrial device solutions

Instrumentation and control

Advanced sensors, drivers, and controllers monitor equipment and production throughout commercial and industrial operations to provide more meaningful metrics for improved performance and reduced costs. 

Safety and security

The demand for smart, connected, and high-precision safety and security solutions is growing. From commercial use to maritime and aerospace applications, we provide end-to-end industrial manufacturing capabilities to optimize costs and deliver the technology that keeps your customers safe.

Test and measurement

From calibration to semiconductor test equipment, as well as communication test equipment for wireless tests, transceivers, synthesizers, and oscilloscopes, we have the in-depth knowledge required for test and measurement devices.

Metering

We provide advanced metering solutions for oil and gas, water, and utility companies. Whether you need basic or smart metering solutions, we can help you build highly reliable equipment.

Navigation and tracking

From guided steering systems like GPS, antennas, and adapters — to applications in smart agriculture like irrigation controllers and precision farming, we excel in navigation and tracking products.

Our cross-industry expertise brings high-quality standards, as well as a specialization in fixtures and test development. We help you reduce downtime with over-the-air software and firmware implementation.

Enabling electrification infrastructures for residential, commercial, and industrial applications

Lead the way in innovative electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, energy storage systems (ESS), and solar solutions, all of which contribute to a greener planet. Together, we can deliver smart energy solutions to make our environment safer, cleaner, and a better place to live, work, and play.

Our manufacturing facilities and supply chain services allow our clean energy customers to take advantage of government subsidies and incentives while optimizing operations. Our broad cross-industry electrification expertise spans from process technology to mechanicals to connectivity, and enables system integration and scalability that help customers deliver clean energy products.

EV charging stations

EVs are transforming mobility and the means of powering it. We design, engineer, manufacture, and distribute charging station solutions, fueling the move from carbon to renewable energy and lithium-ion battery-based transportation.

Power systems

To manage increased power demands worldwide, these power systems are enabling the efficient transition to electrification through smart, efficient power management and controlling the flow of power through various electrified systems including EV charging or energy storage systems.

Energy storage systems

As a versatile resource for clean energy, energy storage systems can range in size and power, and be used at a residence or business. They can be connected to the power grid or rely on renewable energy to keep them powered. These systems also can be part of the EV charging station network as an auxiliary or backup power supply.

Inverters and optimizers

These devices are essential for the shift to electrification and convert energy collected from solar panels into power for residential EV charging stations, energy storage systems, and water heaters. Data collection and connectivity are essential to the enablement of these technologies.

Designing distributed power architecture for new and scalable power solutions

Power solutions fuel today’s leading technological advancements, from hyperscale distributed computing networks and data centers, to hyperscale compute for artificial intelligence applications. We design, build, and sell electrification solutions for power supply, advanced battery systems, power modules, and personal device chargers and adapters to serve the industrial market and a variety of vertical markets including cloud, communications, and consumer.

Today’s communications and networking devices need power supplies with digital control, low standby power, and a high level of component integration. Our design expertise can help you beat out the competition when it comes to power availability, efficiency, density, cost, and performance.

Expand your data center capacity with scalable power supply solutions. Our systems have high efficiency, digital control, black box recorder capabilities, and proprietary firmware. Our experience designing for the data center means we have the latest processes and technologies when you need them. Tap into our intellectual property in power supply technology for cloud server power supply units that boost efficiency.

Get the most out of your current distributed power architecture (DPA), or partner with our design teams to develop a scalable, custom solution. We’ll help you meet your efficiency, density, and environmental requirements.

And if you’re launching an industry-disrupting product that needs a high-efficiency and cost-effective power supply solution, we’ve got experience you can rely on. We’ve shipped over one billion chargers to date!

Advanced DC/DC power modules

Tap into a wide range of specialized power module solutions, including isolated and non-isolated Intermediate Bus Converters, non-isolated Point of Load (PoL) converters, and advanced design tools such as the Flex Power Designer software.

Our power modules are available for various industries and markets including AI, cloud, hyperscale computing, communications, industrial, and transportation.

Maximizing power density in DC/DC for datacom and telecom

Power density requirements are going in one direction: upwards. Learn how technology advancements such as HRR electrical advancements and better thermal and mechanical designs enable Flex’s BMR491 series of DC/DC converters to ensure design engineers can respond to the industries increasing and complex power demands.

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