Design — Total design solutions for innovative electronics products
Flextronics provides a complete range of value-added design services for OEM customers, ranging from contract design to original product design to original design manufacturing. With design engineers located worldwide, Flextronics provides:
User Interface and Industrial Design.
Flextronics designs and develops innovative, stylish, and cost-effective products that address the needs of users as well as the marketplace. Front-end creative capabilities include product exploration, market research, 2-D sketch level drawings, 3-D mock ups, proofs of concept, interaction and interface models, and detailed hard models and product packaging.
Mechanical Engineering and Tooling Design.
Flextronics offers product and enclosure design for static and dynamic solutions in both plastic and metal for low- to high-volume applications. Flextronics also provides design and development services for prototype and production tooling equipment used in manufacturing.
Electronics System Design.
Flextronics provides complete electrical design for products ranging in size from small handheld consumer devices to large high-speed, carrier-grade, telecommunications equipment. This includes embedded system and DSP design, high-speed digital interfaces, analog circuit design, power management solutions, wired and wireless communication protocols, display and storage solutions, imaging and audio/video applications, and RF system and antenna design.
PCB Design.
Flextronics offers complete PCB design services, incorporating high-layer counts, advanced materials, component miniaturization technologies, and signal integrity.
Build —Low-cost, high-volume manufacturing solutions manufacturing solutions
Printed Circuit Board Fabrication
Flextronics is an industry leader in high-density, multilayer printed circuit board manufacturing. The Company manufactures printed circuit boards on a low-volume, quick-turn basis, as well as on a high-volume, production basis. Quick-turn prototype service allows Flextronics to provide small test quantities to customers’ product development groups in as little as 24 hours. With Flextronics' broad range of services, customer demand for an accelerated transition from prototype to volume production can be satisfied. Flextronics has printed circuit board fabrication service capabilities on three continents, South America, Europe, and Asia.
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Systems Assembly and Manufacturing
Flextronics utilizes just-in-time, ship-to-stock, and ship-to-line programs, continuous flow manufacturing, demand flow processes, and statistical process controls. As OEMs seek to provide greater functionality in smaller products, they increasingly require more sophisticated manufacturing technologies and processes. By investing in advanced manufacturing equipment and innovative miniaturization, packaging, and interconnect technologies, Flextronics offers a variety of advanced manufacturing solutions.
Flextronics offers a comprehensive set of custom electronic enclosures and related products and services worldwide. These services focus on functionality, manufacturability, and testing. They are integrated with other assembly and manufacturing services to provide customers with greater responsiveness, improved logistics, and overall improved supply chain management.
Flextronics manufacturing and assembly services benefit from inventory management expertise and volume procurement capabilities, which contribute to cost reductions and reduce total cycle time. Through a manufacturing resources planning system, Flextronics enjoys real-time visibility on material availability and real-time tracking of work in process. Flextronics utilizes electronic data interchange with customers and suppliers to implement a variety of supply chain management programs. Electronic data interchange allows customers to share demand and product forecasts and deliver purchase orders while also assisting suppliers with just-in-time delivery and supplier-managed inventory.
Ship — Global logistics and supply chain solutions
Flextronics provides global logistics services and turnkey supply chain solutions. Worldwide logistics services include freight forwarding, warehousing/inventory management, and outbound / e-commerce solutions through our global supply chain network. Flextronics leverages new technologies such as XML links to factories, extranet-based management, vendor managed inventory and build-to-order programs to simultaneously connect suppliers, manufacturing operations, and OEM customers. By joining these logistics solutions with worldwide manufacturing operations and total supply chain management, Flextronics significantly reduces costs and helps create tightly integrated processes and facilities worldwide, so that Flextronics can react quickly to demand signals from customers worldwide.
After-market services
Flextronics provides a range of after-market services, including product repair, re-manufacturing and maintenance at repair depots, logistics and parts management, returns processing, warehousing, and engineering change management. Flextronics supports customer by providing software updates and design modifications that may be necessary to reduce costs or design-in alternative components due to component obsolescence or unavailability. Manufacturing support involves test engineering support and manufacturability enhancements. Flextronics also assists with failure product analysis, warranty and repair, and field service engineering activities.