Kontron's Embedded Systems Division can customize solutions to meet your usage requirements, industry specific needs and branding. Our extensive experience in creating custom solutions ensures that the resulting devise is designed to meet required performance, reliability specifications, and agency certifications. Since Kontron’s processes are proven and streamlined, we can help you in achieving your time-to-market schedule.
Types of Projects
Since usage models and requirements vary significantly from device to device Kontron's Embedded Systems Division breaks projects into two broad categories:
- Mobile devices
- Desktop/rack mounted devices
Once the broad category is defined, efforts to understand usage and performance expectations pinpoint the needs for key system capabilities and functionality. Some of the areas considered are:
- Human Machine Interface (HMI) needs
- Internet communication needs
- Ruggedness imposed by an unusual environment or usage
- Unusual industry requirements
Careful definition of a project is the first step to successful execution.
Get Going
For each project, Kontron assigns a team to help in proof of concept planning, execution, selection of core technologies and standards. Product concept images and 3D modeling can be used to facilitate testing the concept with your customers and users. Rapid prototyping can speed field trial unit availability and go/no go decision making.
Testing
To ensure performance and reliability of your device, Kontron offers valued engineering services and a full range of testing including:
- Software/hardware verification/validation testing
- Agency testing (CE, UL, RoHS, etc.)
- Environmental testing (temperature, shock, vibration, noise)
- Thermal analysis
Supply Chain to Fulfillment
Your supply chain can be efficiently created to meet the needs of your product by tapping into Kontron‘s experience and excellent relationships with key vendors. Your Kontron team will work with you to keep product BOM in line with your expectations while making sure your product fulfillment needs are met.
The Kontron Difference
Innovation and creativity fuel Kontron's quest to provide the highest value-added services available in the market today. Our experience in creating successful custom solutions for leading OEMs using proven processes has laid a foundation for building your next project. Our team is committed to transforming your ideas into reality.
Kontron's strategic partners offer leading edge products that are the building blocks for our custom solutions. Partners like Intel® and Microsoft®, give us access to technologies that help us shape the future solutions for our customers.
Our engineers frequently collaborate with strategic partners in the creation of new standards for embedded computing platforms.
Kontron offers a full range of value engineering services to complete your custom project.
Early product development services help you "see" your product concept.
- Product concept images: Kontron engineers will simulate your concept for your review.
- 3D Modeling: Kontron uses 3D simulation techniques for industrial design planning as well as component placement planning and design.
- Rapid prototyping: Functional units are needed for tradeshows, demos, field testing and more.
Pre-production services ensure that designs will meet expectations
- Thermal analysis: Airflow is a key element of device design, particularly as device processor performance and other capabilities using expansion slots are added to the device. Power management techniques and products can be utilized to throttle back power usage impacting thermal performance.
- Agency and environmental testing: Knowing where and how you will ship your product allows us to help pinpoint agency requirements and appropriate environmental testing.
- Software / hardware verification/validation: The level of testing done on pre-production and production products must be defined and managed to achieve your quality standards. Kontron processes meet ISO 9001 standards.
Production services bring your project's life cycle management to the return on investment level.
- Supply chain creation and management: Kontron can help you set up your supply chain and cost-reduce the BOM as product volumes for a platform expand.
- Ongoing software / hardware verification/validation: Kontron provides ongoing testing services as new software versions are cut-in to production or for alternative hardware vendor solutions as needed.
Your successful customized system and platform solution projects are Kontron's goal. Let us help you take your next product idea to market.
Kontron customer projects involve the creation of numerous products. Here are a few examples of the type of projects we are currently engaged in to help our customers.
Communications Projects
Many Kontron customers are focused on communications products, specifically network platforms. As Internet usage and services expand worldwide, more people will be accessing corporate data and services from more and more devices. To meet this need, Kontron has developed IU and 2U rack mounted Network Platforms, the KNP-1000 and KNP-2000, designed for further customer desired customization. Each are powered by 64 bit Intel® processors to deliver performance needed for data intensive application. The 3 PCI-X expansion slots in the KNP-2000 are ideal for your further customization. Both Kontron Network Platform products have an LCD with 4 programmable buttons for ease of device management.
HMI and Mobile Platform Projects
Other Kontron customers developing custom systems are focusing on Human Machine Interface (HMI) solutions for mobile computing devices for industry specific usages. Establishing breakthrough usage models requires custom solutions since the system must enable the usage. Since it is not appropriate for us to discuss customer products in development, let’s look at a product outside of Kontron’s development, the often cited Apple® iPhone®. Many Linux and Microsoft® pocket PC version phones had touch screens long before the iPhone. The iPhone brought full browsing capabilities to a phone with a GUI that spurred easy usage of the data services on the device. HMI, whether on a mobile or a stationary device can be instrumental to a product's adoption by users.
Your next project is important. Consider Kontron's custom embedded system services in helping transform your ideas into reality.
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