Automotive Manufacturing
As our customers seek to develop products that provide greater functionality and are smaller in size, enhanced manufacturing technologies and processes are increasingly required. Our investments in advanced manufacturing equipment, as well as our experience and expertise in innovative miniaturization, packaging and interconnect technologies allows us to offer a variety of advanced manufacturing solutions. With manufacturing sites in 30 countries, our global footprint enables our customers to deliver their products to market faster.
Within these operations, we employ just-in-time, ship-to-stock and ship-to-line programs, continuous flow manufacturing, demand flow processes and statistical process controls. We also support a wide range of product demand profiles; from low-volume, high-complexity programs to high-volume production. For many of our projects, we assemble electronics products with our proprietary printed circuit boards and custom electronic enclosures on either a build-to-order or configure-to-order basis. Continuous focus on lean manufacturing allows us to increase our efficiency and flexibility to meet our customers’ dynamic requirements.
Service Highlights
Flextronics’ Automotive segment offers over 15 years of experience in vertically integrated manufacturing services for our diverse customer base. Our team of highly dedicated and experienced professionals operates under fully compliant quality and regulatory processes around the globe. Our manufacturing locations support the latest technology requirements for electronics, mechanicals and component technology.
Our manufacturing services include printed circuit boards, flex circuits, SMT and backend assembly, cameras and displays, teams, mechanicals – metals and plastics, test and validation and unique processes. Manufacturing support includes vertical integration, Lean Six Sigma teams, dedicated customer focus, supply chain management test and engineering support and regulatory support.
Enclosures
We offer a comprehensive set of custom electronics enclosures and related products and services to our customers around the globe. Our services include the design, manufacture and integration of electronics packaging systems; including custom enclosure systems, power and thermal subsystems, interconnect subsystems, cabling and cases. In addition to standard sheet metal and plastic fabrication services, we assist in the design of electronics packaging systems that protect sensitive electronics and enhance functionality. Our enclosure design services focus on functionality, manufacturability and testing. These services are integrated with our other assembly and manufacturing services to provide customers with overall improved supply chain management.
Testing Services
Our computer-aided testing services for assembled printed circuit boards, systems and subsystems significantly improve our ability to deliver high-quality products on a consistent basis. Our test services include management defect analysis, in-circuit and functional testing and environmental stress tests of board and system assemblies. Additionally, we offer design for test, design for manufacturing and design for environment services to jointly improve customer product design and manufacturing.
Materials Procurement and Inventory Management
Our manufacturing and assembly operations capitalize on our materials inventory management expertise and volume procurement capabilities. As a result, we are able to achieve highly competitive cost reductions and total manufacturing cycle time for our customers. Our materials procurement and management services include planning, purchasing, expediting and warehousing of components and materials used in the manufacturing process. In addition, our Industrial Park strategy optimizes efficiency by co-locating third-party suppliers of custom components with our manufacturing facilities to reduce material and transportation costs, simplify logistics and facilitate inventory management.