Pacer USA has announced that its North American customers can now benefit from a new optoelectronics design centre, offering full design and production services for LED, laser and sensor products
The Pacer design centre offers companies an informed and affordable external option to bring products to market when their own design / production resources are at full stretch.
Pacer's in-house electronic, optical and mechanical design capability has many years experience of taking a product concept through design, prototyping, test and verification into full volume production.
Head of the design centre James Woodhead commented: "Customers appreciate local support for design, prototyping and test, but they demand the cost savings of global production facilities.
"Pacer offers both".
From an initial customer specification, Pacer's design team works to select and implement optimised optics, emitters and sensors, along with subsequent signal conditioning such as multiplexing, amplification and interfacing.
Microcontroller programming and the mechanical design of mouldings, housings and connector and cable assemblies are also offered as part of the design and production service.
Pacer ensures strict conformance to any necessary quality requirements such as military standards, medical ISO13485, ISO9001, QS9000 and ISO14001 QA, while also meeting cost and production engineering targets.
Pacer USA general manager David House stated: "Outsourcing a complete project from the design stage is often surprisingly cost-effective, and can alleviate resource bottlenecks.
"Our design team has extensive experience of designing optoelectronic assemblies for industrial and consumer applications - they know what works and how to avoid problems, leading to considerable time and cost savings".
Pacer USA is the US subsidiary of Pacer International.
Pacer offers customised opto and display solutions, and full design and manufacturing services for its customers.
Established in 1988, Pacer has US headquarters in Pennsylvania with the international headquarters in Newbury, Berkshire, UK.
