Who Are We?
Electronic Assembly Management
Over the last few years a major change of strategy has taken place within the electronics industry. In the past larger companies used to manufacture entirely in house, having their own metalwork shops and assembly departments, however, companies are now concentrating on core business and are increasingly making use of the sub contract industry to carry out non-core functions. Traditionally use has been made of several sub contractors, each with differing expertise, to achieve the required result. This method can increase both direct and indirect costs to the company with the extra overhead required to select sub contractors and to manage them as well as increasing the risk element by unwittingly using financially volatile sub contractors.
CPS have introduced a new approach to the sub contract market by taking the whole sub contract responsibility in house and managing the project on behalf of the company. Years of experience in electronics design, component procurement and manufacturing enable CPS to effectively manage a project from any stage in its development through to final delivery of completed product to the customer.
Value Engineering
By involving CPS at an early stage in product development we are often able to make suggestion with regard to PCB design, component selection and manufacturing techniques that may result in cost savings during production. CPS also has an in house prototype build facility that enables us to assemble and debug PCB’s, parts lists and assembly drawings prior to volume manufacture. All in house prototype assembly is completed by hand thus saving needless tooling costs.
Printed Circuit Design
CPS’s employees have years of experience in the design of Printed Circuit Boards and have close ties with many CAD design companies. We are ideally placed to select the most suitable for your project, and we bear in mind your in house CAD system when making selections so that the completed design can be supported on your own system.
Metalwork Design
CPS work closely with several AutoCad designers and are able to select a suitable designer for your project. AutoCad files are fed directly to our metalworker’s computer controlled machines thus reducing programming errors and speeding up the project.
Printed Circuit Manufacture
We are able to select the most suitable PCB manufacturer for your PCBs. The ultimate selection depends on the type of board, i.e. the number of layers, the size of the finished board, whether the components are conventional or surface mount, the finish required, the quantity and of course the cost.
Component Kitting
CPS has many years experience in sourcing components and providing production ready kits, we have close ties with a number of procurement offices both in the UK and overseas and are able to trace obsolete or difficult components.
Electronic Assembly
In order to select the most cost effective and technically suitable assembly house for your requirements we are exceedingly careful in our selection of sub contractor. Among the many criteria we use are, the type of assembly machines to be used, the capacity of the machines, the type of PCBs to be assembled, the quality requirements of the project and last but not least the financial stability of the company.