When you buy an electronic product, most of the time its production process has been handled by an electronics manufacturing company.
The brand that puts its name on the product owns the rights to the software and other parts of the product, but they let the other company handle product design for them. Here is what you need to know about EMS (Electronics Manufacturing Services companies).
What are the Main Tasks that an Electronics Manufacturing Company handles?
When original equipment manufacturers call upon the services of a company like Vector Blue Hub, they benefit from a large variety of services. It starts with product design and testing, followed by manufacturing and distributing.
Below, we will now describe some of these services in more detail.
Product Design
When the electronics manufacturing company handles product design, it means that it may get involved in three different tasks, which are: Mechanics design, hardware design, and embedded software.
The first part needs to take into account the functionality and aesthetic of the product. To do that, it will have to work with different metals and plastic materials, that they will choose in collaboration with the client.
When it comes to hardware design, the main objective is to come up with an object that will be fully compliant in the end, to the customer’s needs but also to the certification request that will apply to the product, when brought to market.
The final part of product design deals with integrating hardware and user interfaces with the management software. This task is of utmost importance to the whole process, and it is one in which Vector Blue Hub specializes.
Creating Prototypes of the Final Product
In regards to electronic products, until you don’t have a working sample in your hands, you cannot know if it will function as it is supposed to, and if it will be easy to handle for the customers. Therefore, you need to build a prototype to acquire this information.
As is often the case, the first one that comes out from the electronics manufacturing company will only be used to understand what can be done to make the product even better.
This is why you need a manufacturer that has sufficient people and all the capacity to create these prototypes rapidly and just as they would look if they went to a production at the stage that they are at.
Testing and Certification of the Product
These are two crucial phases before launching a product into full manufacturing production. If a vast array is not fully done, in order to make sure that everything works perfectly as it should, you may find yourself with a defective product that you will have to call back, once out on the market.
That is enough to destroy even a strong company.
This is why the electronics manufacturing company needs to be able to guarantee that all is in full order. It will also be necessary for it to go through the certification process, which proves that the design of the product is compliant will all standards requested on a regional or international level.