Services span from R&D, through prototyping and qualification, to production ramping and technology transfer to a low-cost, volume manufacturing site.
Palomar is a leading supplier of automated ultra flexible high-precision assembly systems. Processes include high accuracy component assembly with eutectic solder or epoxy, precision ball bonding and ball bumping, and wedge bonding for fine pitch devices. Optocap develops packaging solutions. Palomar has had an extensive Process Development and Prototyping Laboratory at its headquarters in Carlsbad, California since 2002. By utilizing its precision equipment and process expertise, and combining it with the NPI facilities and packaging experience of Optocap, companies now have a center of packaging excellence available to them in Europe.
This new Process Development and Manufacturing Service meets the needs of companies looking to develop or validate new products, but who require the design, engineering, prototyping, assembly, and automation expertise, and/or metrology resources to bridge the gap between product concept and automation production. It enables new products to be brought to market with minimum risk and capital speed, while also reducing time-to-market.
“Having Palomar and Optocap integrate the automated assembly line and create the prototype allows a company to anticipate manufacturing requirements and discover any problems before production begins. Plus, it provides a rapid route to initial production with minimum capital cost and risk,”explained Josef Schmidt, Managing Director, Palomar.
“Start-up or established companies can benefit from our Process Development and Prototyping Services collaboration”, said Optocap CEO David Raxton. “Start-up companies can use this service when they lack the initial resources to go from concept to product, while established companies can use the engineering services if they’ve been downsized, have a new product and don’t want to take resources from an existing product, or need help to build a device that’s not their core technology.”
