Mechanical Systems & Services

Mechanical Systems & Services

Sanmina-SCI’s Mechanical Systems & Services Division offers a complete range of design engineering, prototyping, volume manufacturing, assembly and test services for complex electro-mechanical systems across multiple markets. Key market segments include communications, enterprise computing and storage, multimedia, industrial and semiconductor, defense and aerospace, medical and renewable energy. The division has capabilities to support large form factors, diverse materials (sheet metal, plastics, die casting), precision machining of a range of alloys, complex mechatronic assemblies, clean room fabrication – services and capabilities not generally found in most EMS companies. The division is also focused on providing you a cost-effective solution for the design and manufacture of your electro-mechanical systems with a global footprint spread across locations in China, India, Mexico, Hungary, Finland the U.S.

At Sanmina-SCI, our Mechanical Systems & Services Division is focused on:

• Offering all services and capabilities in all markets around the world
• Satisfying customers with operational excellence and business results
• Streamlining operations and more efficiently allocating resources to be more cost competitive

Sanmina-SCI’s mechanical systems and services solutions will help you drive down costs, decrease time-to-market and improve competitiveness. Partnering with Sanmina-SCI brings the benefits of sourcing both component production and assembly services with a single manufacturing partner.

Sanmina-SCI designs, manufactures and delivers electronics electro-mechanical products into virtually every major marketplace in the world. Our consistent management processes and adherence to international quality standards deliver “design anywhere, build anywhere” performance, global capabilities and solutions.

Mechanical Design

Integral to our customers’ success is the dedication and expertise of Sanmina-SCI’s design and engineering personnel distributed across our various market-focused divisions. These highly skilled teams provide an extensive range of value-added design and engineering services that complement Sanmina-SCI’s complete end-to-end manufacturing strategy.

Using a common set of powerful design automation tools such as Pro/Engineer®, SolidWorks®, Icepak® and Flowtherm®, Sanmina-SCI sets a high standard in the level of design and engineering expertise we offer to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) serving the communications, enterprise computing and storage, multimedia, industrial and semiconductor, defense and aerospace, medical, automotive and renewable energy industries.

Sanmina-SCI’s experience and leadership extends to the engineering and analysis disciplines that offer the following services:

• Complete mechanical design, engineering analysis, project management, engineering documentation and qualification services
• Thermal analysis and testing
• In-house thermal testing and regulatory approval management services
• Stress and vibration analysis
• Tolerance analysis
• EMC/EMI analysis
• Complete custom-designed power distribution systems
• Cabling design and routing analysis services
• Partnerships and collaborations

Sanmina-SCI is an extension of your product development team – enhancing your product development from concept through detailed design and prototyping, to volume production and end-of-life. Sanmina-SCI’s global infrastructure, quality and technology leadership, and reputation in the marketplace helps you compete and succeed.

Enclosures

Sanmina-SCI is a global market leader in enclosures for electronic systems. We build enclosures for a variety of end markets, partnering with you from initial concept through integration and final system assembly. Our enclosure expertise is readily accessible at any of our state-of-the-art facilities that provide metal fabrication, high-volume metal stamping, plastic injection molding, aluminum die-casting and high-capacity welding capabilities. We continue to commit significant resources to these strategically located operations around the globe to minimize enclosure manufacturing and logistics cost.

Unrivaled Expertise in Enclosure System Solutions

Sanmina-SCI’s unrivaled packaging expertise encompasses custom and standard cabinet designs for both indoor and outdoor applications. We build racks, chassis and shelf assemblies that meet exact customer specifications, and adhere to international quality standards. We design and build first-rate enclosures virtually anywhere in the world.

The design and engineering expertise of the Sanmina-SCI enclosure organization represents the best talent in the Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) industry. With our many packaging engineers, located in multiple design centers around the world, Sanmina-SCI is well positioned to be your total enclosure systems provider.

We offer a full suite of products and services that include:

• Custom and proprietary enclosure products
• Engineering services (design, DFx)
• Highly integrated and tested complex enclosure systems
• Electro-mechanical design of indoor and outdoor enclosures
• Sheet metal, plastic injection molding and die-cast designs
• Thermal management design, structural analysis, modeling and verification
• Cabling design and documentation

With Sanmina-SCI, customers get access to the entire world with eight (8) dedicated Mechanical Systems and Services Division facilities in Fremont, California; Guadalajara, Mexico; Turtle Lake, Wisconsin; Salo, Finland; Miskolc, Hungary; Suzhou, China; Shenzhen, China; and Chennai, India.

Precision Machining

As part of our mission to provide complete manufacturing to customers around the globe, Sanmina-SCI has developed a suite of world-class metal fabrication and precision machining services. Whatever the size, volume or material of the product Sanmina-SCI's precision machining solutions help drive down costs, shorten lead times and simplify the supply chain.

Sanmina-SCI has four (4) dedicated facilities supporting machining and complex integration in Fremont, California; Newark, California; Austin, Texas; and Suzhou, China.

As a leader in Design for Manufacturability (DFx), Sanmina-SCI offers a number of value-added services that streamline the production of your machined components. These services include:

• Design and engineering
• Quickturn prototyping
• “Lights-out” manufacturing
• Rapid-response production support
• Clean-room assembly
• In-house, rapid-response tooling
• Low- and medium-volume production
• Medium- to high-complexity components
• Die casting and plastic injection molding
• Medium- and large-format mill and lathe machining
• In-house welding (TIG, MIG)
• Aluminum, stainless steel, plastics, ferrous and nonferrous alloys, exotic alloys
• In-house helium and hydrostatic leak-test capabilities
• Expertise in complex mill and lathe components
• Expertise in developing vacuum chambers
• Expertise in lapping, plating, anodizing, EDM, heat-treating, cleaning, laser inspection, painting and packaging through an established supply chain.

When customers partner with Sanmina-SCI, they gain access to a suite of state-of-the-art, computer-controlled machining equipment that can satisfy the most rigorous demands for production and quality. Plus, this equipment includes fully automated “lights-out” machinery that continues production in the absence of human operators, as well as some of the largest machining formats in the United States.

Partnering with Sanmina-SCI brings the benefits of sourcing both component production and assembly services with a single manufacturing partner. This combination eliminates the need for external suppliers, reducing lead times, and cutting the overhead costs of shipping and order management.

Complex Assembly

Complex assembly can range in size from hundreds to thousands of parts. Then you throw in the demanding technical specifications, strict program requirements and adherence to procedures, and the manufacturing process becomes a major challenge.

At Sanmina-SCI, our extensive experience as a complete outsourcing solution for complex systems provides our customers with industry-leading capabilities from prototyping, precision manufacturing, supply chain management, to assembly and testing, after-market support, advanced materials, and product design and engineering. The depth and breadth of Sanmina-SCI’s services, capabilities and skills are fully integrated into our processes to deliver a wide range of products from high-end, high-volume complex assemblies to medium-to-low volume parts. We custom-tailor our solutions that offer leading-edge technology and robust manufacturing capabilities to serve our dedicated end markets.

Our complex assembly advantages include:

• State-of-the-art modern machining equipment
• Size capability from smallest to the largest projects
• Ability to support products from design through volume manufacturing
• Capability to handle both high- and low-volume programs
• Production ramp of a complex assembly in less than six months
• Strategically located throughout the U.S.

Our goal at Sanmina-SCI is to align your business objectives with the best manufacturing strategy in the EMS industry. We will work with you to meet your specific business needs whether it’s for an entire machined-part solution or a small complex build. Sanmina-SCI is your partner of choice.

For industries that require extremely clean manufacturing environments, Sanmina-SCI has clean rooms in Fremont, California; Austin, Texas; and Suzhou, China. These facilities have Class 1,000 and 10,000 clean rooms.