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Big ideas come with big unknowns. That’s why you need an experienced technology partner to help you bring your idea from prototyping to production — safely and quickly. We partner with you to vet, conceptualize, and test your product design and development.
Our advanced engineering solutions allow you to design tomorrow’s products using our expertise in advanced manufacturing technologies, so that you can build things better, faster, and with less risk. We’re leading the revolution to transform the way things are made, and we’re always looking for ways to make our manufacturing and process technologies even faster and more efficient.
Designing new products for manufacturing requires a mix of resources and know-how across hardware and software. Partner with us for design for manufacturing (DfM) resources, design validation, and the ability to lean on our wealth of engineering experts to solve that last issue.
Team up with Flex and take advantage of our complete package of design services and product lifecycle offerings to design, source, build, deliver, and manage your products efficiently at scale.
Flex provides user-centered design and engineering expertise, enabling customers to specify, conceptualize, develop, test, and sustain today’s products and tomorrow’s breakthroughs.
We work side-by-side with your team to review product design preparedness across a broad range of factors including performance, reliability, durability, and scalability.
Flex provides user-centered design and engineering expertise, enabling customers to specify, conceptualize, develop, test, and sustain today’s products and tomorrow’s breakthroughs. We offer a comprehensive range of design, engineering, and systems integration services, such as validated reference designs, rapid prototyping, and advanced engineering and testing, tailored to specific industries and markets, the needs of customers, and covering a broad range of technical competencies:
We collaborate with our customers to take their product from concept to volume production and go-to-market in a rapid, cost effective, and low-risk manner.
Why start from scratch? Customize any of our high-quality reference designs to jumpstart developing your product design.
You’ll cut major costs and scale your manufacturing faster.
An idea can feel light years from a launch. But a high-quality prototype shortens the distance.
Prototyping brings your idea into its first functional, tangible form. Make it faster and more cost-effective with 3D printing and additive manufacturing. We help you stay on track to meet your milestones and deadlines. And we’ll do it where it makes sense for you. You can prototype out of a site local to your operations, before ramping up to full volume in a region that meets your needs.
Bring your product to market safely, thanks to our full suite of testing: electrical, mechanical, thermal, and chemical.
We test at both the component and completed product levels. You can have confidence that you’re within regulatory standards, avoiding costly setbacks and delays.
Through all possible scenarios and conditions, you need to know your product works as intended. We perform reliability testing at both the component and final product levels to reduce setbacks and delays.
We test your product in environmental chambers that simulate temperature, humidity, salt spray, ultraviolet rays, lighting, and drop and abrasion testing. We use contemporary techniques such as CT scan, X-Ray, Shadow Moiré, and SEM.
We miniaturize the microelectronics within your product and prepare it to scale. Our technical capabilities include high-density SMT and fine-pitch flip chip, precision die attach and wire bonding, and robust encapsulation techniques with an emphasis on thermal management, miniaturization, size reduction, and performance enhancement.
Our experience with system in package (SiP) gives you miniaturized design, better functionality, and faster time-to-market.
Our simulation and modeling checks for product viability and potential pitfalls, saving you the time and money of testing it in the real world. So, you’ll know about any high-risk components or parts before the product even exists. No crystal ball necessary.
Where excellence meets your end goals. Get there faster and with less risk through our full suite of Design for Excellence (DfX) services. We work side-by-side with your team to review product design preparedness across a broad range of factors including performance, reliability, durability, and scalability. Through technology exchange meetings and gap analysis, we develop a comprehensive, consultative strategy that applies our manufacturing expertise to your product development.
We partner with you to deliver key design recommendations for the future and ensure that continuous improvements result in design innovation, no matter the development stage.
There are numerous design factors considerations to make your product intuitive and easy to use. We’re here to help make sure it’s easy to make, too.
Manufacturability, cost, reliability, testing, and more — we offer design guidance to make sure your product can be built cost-effectively and at scale. And we’ll help perform product validation, test development, and value analysis/value engineering.
Product design plays a key role in long-term success. We’ll show you ways to reduce costs and eliminate solderability, placement, and assembly issues by addressing design for manufacturing early in the product development process. Our methodologies include design for manufacturing, testing, assembly, reliability, cost, and more.
A holistic approach to DfX helps reduce the surprise factor as you move from design to manufacturing. Eliminate quality issues with tooling and molds early on with the help of our tooling verification capabilities. We’ll prioritize your cost targets with Design for Cost (DfC) and ensure you have workable design files using Computer Aid Design File Conversion (CAD).
We’ve made the smart factory a reality by introducing strategic standards and implementing automation using internally developed systems like Digital Design for Automation Line, Digital Use Case Catalogs, Internal Quotation Tool (IQT), and many others.
You have your product design — now let’s make sure you can scale it. We help you identify opportunities and unexpected challenges in the manufacturing process. Our design for manufacturing (DfM) guidance ensures that your products work better, become more customizable, and have fewer parts, all while cutting down non-recurring costs.
Our approach to DfM helps you maximize your investments, reduce time-to-market, and eliminate the risk of discovering design issues in full-scale production.
Let us position your product design to deliver the highest yield at the fastest time-to-market well before it reaches the manufacturing stage.
Using our DfM solutions, we help you make key design adjustments that eliminate scrap and bottlenecks while maximizing product performance.
We make sure your design is poised to incorporate the most cost-effective and efficient processes while deploying materials management, quality control, and more.
In fact, we take our analysis down to the individual parts level with Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFMA). That way, you can reduce the number of individual parts and assembly steps for more consistent build quality.
Find out before you scale through Finite Element Analysis (FEA).
Protect your future hardware from defects using DfT.
New technologies, materials, and advanced circuitries make the task more challenging — but Design for Reliability (DfR) can help prolong a high level of performance throughout the lifecycle.
We make your transition to automated manufacturing faster with digitized simulation tools that save time and improve accuracy.
Whether you are ramping in a new region or require an automated approach to achieve quality or production targets, we help you accelerate your time-to-market with our integrated digital solutions for automation. With our capabilities, your design teams can optimize product designs and validate manufacturing lines to ensure automated production success.
Our digital, centralized tools enable innovative, automated manufacturing. Significantly reduce product design concept validation time with our Digital Design for Automation capabilities and conceptualize and validate automated manufacturing assembly lines with our Digital Design for Automation Line capabilities.
