Simclar, Inc. is a contract manufacturer of electronic and electro-mechanical products primarily in the United States. The company provides electronics manufacturing services (EMS) to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in the data processing, telecommunications, instrumentation, and food preparation equipment industries.
The company's products are manufactured to customer specifications and designed for OEMs in the data processing, telecommunications, instrumentation and food preparation e...
Simclar, Inc. is a contract manufacturer of electronic and electro-mechanical products primarily in the United States. The company provides electronics manufacturing services (EMS) to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in the data processing, telecommunications, instrumentation, and food preparation equipment industries.
The company's products are manufactured to customer specifications and designed for OEMs in the data processing, telecommunications, instrumentation and food preparation equipment industries. Its custom-designed products include complex printed circuit boards (PCBs), conventional and molded cables, wire harnesses, backplanes, and electro-mechanical assemblies. The company provides OEMs with value-added, contract manufacturing services and total systems assembly and integration. It also delivers manufacturing and test engineering services and materials management, with service-oriented manufacturing and assembly services for its customers’ high-tech changing products.
Products and Services
The company manufactures approximately 1,000 products, including finished products, sub-assemblies, molded and non-molded cable assemblies, wire harnesses, printed circuit boards (PCBs), injection molded and electronic assembly products, for approximately 100 OEM customers.
Printed Circuit Boards (PCB)
PCB assemblies are electronic assemblies consisting of a basic printed circuit laminate with electronic components including diodes, resistors, capacitors and transistors, inserted and wave soldered. The PCBs produced by the company includes pin-through-hole assemblies, low and medium volume surface mount technology assemblies, and mixed technology PCBs, which include multilayer PCBs.
Simclar (Mexico), Inc. operates a manufacturing facility in Matamoros, Mexico, through a wholly-owned subsidiary, Simclar de México, S.A. de C.V. This Matamoros facility provides PCB manufacturing capacity similar to the company’s Ohio facility. Simclar (Mexico) is an international value added provider of comprehensive electronic manufacturing services to OEM’s serving the, industrial controls, medical, power equipment and automotive industries.
Cable and Harness Assemblies
The company offers various custom manufactured cable and harness assemblies for molded and mechanical applications. Its assemblies include multiconductor, ribbon, co-axial cable, and discrete wire harness assemblies. It uses in-line inspection and computerized automated test equipment. The company maintains various standard tooling for D-Subminiature, DIN connectors and phono connectors. D-Subminiatures are connectors which are over-molded with the imprint of the customer’s name and part number. DIN connectors are circular connectors consisting of two to four pairs of wires used for computer keyboards.
Flat ribbon cable or ribbon cable assemblies are cables with wires (conductors) on the same plane with connectors at each end. Flat ribbon cables are used in computer assemblies and instrumentation.
Discrete cable assemblies are wires with contacts and connectors. Harnesses are prefabricated wiring with insulation and terminals ready to be attached to connectors.
Contract Manufacturing
Contract manufacturing involves the manufacture of finished assemblies with all sheet metal, power supplies, fans, PCBs as well as sub-assemblies for integration into an OEM’s finished products, such as speaker and lock-key assemblies and diode assemblies that consist of wire, connectors and diodes that are over-molded, packaged and bar coded for distribution. Its products can be designed and manufactured by the company through its computer-aided design system, engineering and supply procurement. The company develops manufacturing processes and tooling, and test sequences for new products of its customers. The company provides design and engineering services in the early stages of product development.
The company opened a second manufacturing facility in Matamoros, Mexico, providing additional capability to process soft-tooled sheet metal fabrication and finishing. Further expansion phases would include hard-tooled sheet metal fabrication, along with plastic injection molding, and overmolding for cable and harness manufacturing.
The company expanded its product offerings by acquiring SNAI. SNAI is a fabricator of sheet metal components and higher level assemblies.
Reworking and Refurbishing
Customers provide the company with materials and sub-assemblies acquired from other sources, which the customer has determined require modified design or engineering changes. The company redesigns, reworks, refurbishes, and repairs its materials and sub-assemblies. The company’s affiliation with Simclar Group gives the company access to a customer base and the ability to handle customers both in the USA and Europe.
Backplane Interconnect Systems
In February 2006, the company acquired certain backplane assembly assets of Litton. Litton supplies backplane interconnect solutions to blue-chip customers in markets as diverse as network, wireline and wireless infrastructure, defense and electronic data processing. Backplane interconnect systems form the electronic systems and provides the means for power distribution and data communications between electronic sub-system building blocks. Adding the ability to provide backplane interconnect solutions with its metal fabrication, cable and harness, printed circuit board, and high level assembly capabilities enables the company to offer an appealing single source solution to the electronics OEM market.
Sales and Marketing
The company sells and markets its products primarily in the Northeast, Southeast, West and Southwest regions of the United States, as well as parts of Mexico.
Customers
The company serves a range of businesses, from emerging growth companies to multinational OEMs, involved in a variety of markets including computer networking systems, computer workstations, telecommunications, mass data storage systems, instrumentation and food preparation equipment industries.
Competition
The company’s main PCB competitors in the Midwest region include SMC, Diversified Systems, Epic Technologies, and CDR Manufacturing. The primary competitors for Mexico PCB operations include Kimball Electronics, Method Electronics, and Jabil. Its competitors in the cable and harness assembly market include Tyco, Advanced Interconnect, Amphenol, Sapphire, Volex Interconnect Systems, and Foxconn.
History
Simclar, Inc. was founded in 1976. The company was formerly known as Techdyne, Inc. and changed its name to Simclar, Inc. in 2003.
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