Design and Engineering

What factors influence the success of your product in the marketplace? How do you get to market faster, at a lower cost and with higher quality standards? Being able to answer these questions helps set technology companies apart and gives them a significant competitive advantage.

With more than 80 percent of a product’s price and supply chain performance determined in the design and engineering phase, accessing the right EMS partner who can deliver on all fronts is imperative. Sanmina-SCI’s global infrastructure, quality and technology leadership, and reputation in the marketplace help you compete and succeed.

An extension of your product development team . . .

Quality. At Sanmina-SCI we believe that quality is the ability to consistently provide service and value that exceeds our customers’ expectations. Sanmina-SCI is committed to this challenge and continuously works to improve our day-to-day operations in all facilities worldwide.

We drive customer success through:

• Relentless focus on customer requirements
• Globally focused quality management system
• Data-driven management
• Specialized resources and focused training
• Certification to industry standards
• Measurable management-ready reporting systems
• Six Sigma programs
• Operational audit programs
• ISO 9000 and industry-specific registrations, as applicable to our specific end markets
• Commitment to customer satisfaction

Design. Integral to our customers’ success is the dedication and expertise of Sanmina-SCI’s more than 600 design and engineering personnel distributed across our various market-focused divisions. Our Global Technology Solutions (GTS) group is available to support your technology needs across all major geographic regions. 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.

Engineering support services for our customers include:

• Electrical design
• Mechanical design
• Thermal and structural modeling and analysis
• Systems packaging
• PCB layout
• Signal integrity analysis
• High-performance backplane and interconnect engineering
• DFx services and component engineering
• Software/firmware development
• Functional test development
• Process technology development
• Product integrity testing
• Reliability testing
• In-house regulatory approvals
• Value engineering

Compliance Design and Testing. Sanmina-SCI’s experienced design and test personnel, world-class compliance laboratories and commitment to quality, technology and service ensure a worry-free design and engineering experience. We offer a full suite of design, redesign and testing services to meet your critical project requirements. And with approvals and certifications worldwide, we make sure all products manufactured are in compliance with local and international regulatory requirements.

Product Lifecycle. Our services begin with trade-off studies and specification development at the concept phase, and then move to detailed engineering and design execution, prototype builds and design validation, followed by product launch and transfer to volume production, with final repair and warranty-support engineering when required.

At Sanmina-SCI we understand there are two important areas in the lifecycle management process:

One – Redesign for cost improvement
Two – Sustaining engineering services for product upgrades, technology changes and obsolescence management

RoHS/WEEE. Sanmina-SCI is ready to provide complete turnkey support for your product transition requirements to meet the RoHS/WEEE deadlines. End-to-end RoHS/WEEE support includes:

• RoHS/WEEE planning
• Design assessments
• End-of-life planning
• Design and engineering, documentation and BOM conversions
• Product validation and requalification
• Process qualification, dual process transition and inventory management

For more information on Sanmina-SCI End-to-End solutions, Inquire Here!