Production Engineering
Getting your product into production takes more than good design. You need the right processes, the right tools, and an experienced team that can bridge the gap between prototype and volume manufacture. That’s exactly what Intercole’s production engineering service gives you.
With 60 years of experience in contract electronics manufacturing, we help you move from concept to finished product efficiently, with fewer risks and less time lost to avoidable problems.
As a contract electronic manufacturer, we ensure that the issues often encountered in the production of complex electronic-based products are effectively handled. Each customer order is managed by a dedicated Production Engineer.
All Production Engineers are multi-disciplined with immediate access to other specialist engineers, all of whom are on hand to provide advice during the development of new products or to optimise the design of existing products for all levels of production capacity, including support for sourcing electronics to meet your requirements efficiently.
This approach ensures you have a design suitable for production that can be manufactured in the most efficient way possible, helping to maintain your cost advantage without sacrificing quality in today’s competitive and demanding marketplace.
Specialist Production Engineering
Soldering Services
You get consistent, high-quality soldering that meets the demands of even the most complex PCB assemblies. Whether your design calls for fine-pitch surface mount components, through-hole parts, or a mix of both, our team has the skills and equipment to handle it.
We work to IPC standards and use proven processes to ensure every joint is reliable and repeatable. For assemblies that require hand soldering or rework, our experienced technicians bring a level of care that automated lines simply cannot replicate. You can trust that every board leaving our facility has been built to last.
IC Programming
We take on the programming of integrated circuits as part of your production build, so you receive finished, ready-to-use assemblies rather than blank devices that need further work downstream.
Programming in-house means tighter control, faster turnaround, and one less handoff in your supply chain. You provide the firmware or code, and we ensure every device is programmed, verified, and ready to go before it leaves our facility. Every programmed assembly also goes through our board and final product test process, so you can be confident it performs exactly as intended.
Design for Manufacturability
One of the most common reasons a product costs more than it should, or takes longer to produce than planned, is that it was not designed with manufacturing in mind. Our production engineers review your design early and identify anything that could cause problems at volume.
You benefit from practical feedback that makes your product easier and more cost-effective to build, without compromising its performance. This works hand in hand with our PCB design service, where we can apply design for manufacturability thinking from the very start. Small adjustments at the design stage can save significant time and cost once production is underway.
FPGA Programming
Field-programmable gate arrays bring flexibility and processing power to electronics designs, but programming them correctly is a specialist task. Our team has experience configuring FPGAs as part of SMT assembly and board-level builds, giving you a seamless route from design through to a fully programmed, tested assembly.
Whether you are using FPGAs for signal processing, control systems, or custom logic, we work with your design files to ensure every device is correctly loaded and validated before your boards are shipped.
Microcontroller Programming
Microcontrollers sit at the heart of most modern electronic products, and getting the firmware right is just as important as getting the hardware right. We programme microcontrollers to your specification as part of the production process, removing the need for you to handle this separately.
You receive boards that are fully programmed and verified, ready for the next stage of PCB assembly or direct to end-user delivery. It is a simple step that makes a real difference to your production timeline.
Talk to Us About Your Production Engineering Requirements
If you are moving a product from prototype into production, or looking to improve the efficiency of an existing manufacturing process, we would be happy to discuss how Intercole can help.