Printed Circuit Board Design for Manufacturing
PCBA Design for Manufacturing Mastery
When you bring your design to CO-AX, our design and manufacturing engineers get to work on making sure your product is optimized for manufacturing at any volume.
We are experts at Design for Manufacturing (DFM), giving you peace of mind that your product will function as specified and meet your requirements for cost, time, yield, and scalability. Whether adding PCBA manufacturing capacity, transferring or onshoring your contact manufacturing or introducing a new product to market, you can be sure your PCB designs are meticulously reviewed and tested to ensure success.
Proven Design for Manufacturing Processes
We use industry-leading electronics software packages, including Solidworks, Altium, and SiliconExpert, to assess and evaluate your document package and mitigate risk. Our skilled design engineers first complete a thorough design evaluation before sending it to our supply chain team for a Bill of Materials (BOM) check.
Your product is then sent to our dedicated prototyping line to verify its assembly and manufacturability. Because this line is strictly used for new product onboarding and introductions, a prototype can be completed in as little as two weeks from receipt of materials.
The prototypes are then tested using customer-provided test fixtures – or we can build test fixtures for you. Once this process is complete, we conduct a comprehensive design and PCB manufacturing review with you before sending your final design to production.
Integrated Design for Manufacturing Engineering Services
Our in-house design engineers also partner with you to enhance and finalize designs. We will help you convert a design, add features such as wireless communication, complete a prototype printed circuit board design, and develop test fixtures. In this era of supply chain challenges, our team can also help you Design for Availability.
Our expertise in DFM, combined with our product development experience in industrial, medical, consumer, aerospace, and smart devices, means we can help you reduce your time from concept to production while maximizing your profits. Our in-house electronic, mechanical, hardware, and software/firmware engineers include many with master’s and Ph.D. degrees from prestigious universities.
We go above and beyond every day to ensure our customers’ complete satisfaction. We have an unwavering commitment to quality, transparency, integrity, and accountability in all we do. Perhaps that’s why our customers consistently rate our design for manufacturing services as exceptional.
Our advantages include:
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PCBA, Cable and Harness, and Box Build Design Proficiencies
- Circuit Board Schematic and Layout Design
- Circuit Redesign and Enhancements
- Wire Harness and Cable Designs
- Complete Box Build Designs
- Turnkey Custom Projects
- Electronic System Integration
- Software Engineering
- Hardware and Complete System Design
- Embedded Systems and Software Design
- PLC Controllers
- RF Design
- Signal Conditioning – Analog and Digital
- THT to SMT Conversion
- DFM and Design for Test
- RoHS Compliance Design and Development
- US and International Compliance Testing
Customer Success Stories
This medical electronics customer needed a device to monitor brain signals for clinical research. The product had to be low noise while providing exacting measurements.
The design engineering team at CO-AX completed the electrical and mechanical designs and delivered a turnkey FDA-cleared product including the enclosure. Advanced I/O ports for were also included for future generation devices.
This industrial customer asked CO-AX to design a PCB with two MCUs to monitor and detect arcs, and shut down the system within milliseconds to limit any damage.
CO-AX created a cost-effective, one-time use PCB including firmware and self-testing capabilities.
What is Design for Manufacturing?
Design for manufacturing (DFM) is a set of guidelines and best practices used to optimize the workflow for a more efficient and cost-effective manufacturing process. In the context of a printed circuit board assembly (PCBA), DFM incorporates key considerations to simplify and streamline its assembly.
Key considerations can include component selection, placement, the PCB layout and even the assembly process. This translates into a quicker build, to move products from concept to the marketplace more efficiently.
Additionally, design for manufacturing enhances traceability and brings accountability to each company and staff member involved in the process, from procurement through assembly. DFM optimizes project lifecycle management with the added goals of reducing labor, increasing yield and improving performance.
