Product design & manufacturing

Great hardware.
Built together.

From the first sketch to the factory floor. Your engineering and manufacturing team in Shenzhen, bringing mechanical design, electronics, and production together.

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MechanicalElectronicsFirmwareManufacturing

Real products. Integrated teams.Explore our engineering work

Custom PCBA & firmware

Custom electronics and in-house firmware drive the 12V fan from a rechargeable LiPo battery pack.

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Helmet cooling platform / Illustrative view View project

Precision electronics work at the Shenzhen facility

01 / EngineerDesigned to work.

Precision finishing of injection mold tooling

02 / DevelopRefined for production.

Assembly and inspection on the production line

03 / ManufactureBuilt to scale.

Two ways to build with us

Start with an idea.
Or a ready-to-build design.

Our customers are product design firms, high-growth brands, corporate engineering teams, and hardware entrepreneurs. We use Shenzhen-based design engineering, validation, and NPI to de-risk programs, then help you scale wherever it makes sense.

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Mechanical cutaway of a custom helmet cooling system

Product design

Turn your idea into hardware

Expert mechanical, electronic, integration, and firmware development leadership
Design, prototype, validation, and agency compliance services in one team
Product design projects from concept, prototyping, and manufacturing release

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Product assembly and testing on the factory floor

Manufacturing

Put your design into production

Walmart, SGS, and Apple MFi audited facility
Initial DFM feedback and 2 to 3 day quote turnaround
Production pricing, capabilities, and low-volume NPI support
Mass production options across low-cost geographies with turnkey management

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Full-service product design & validation

Prove out your architecture in Shenzhen with our design engineering team, validation labs, and supply partners. Then scale production in the geography that best fits your cost, compliance, and logistics targets.

EVT · DVT

Accelerated EVT/DVT testing

Local labs and fixtures shorten compliance and reliability testing cycles so issues surface before tooling locks in.
PVT · NPI

Pilot & NPI builds

Small-batch SMT, mechanical, and assembly runs validate your BOM, firmware, and QA plans ahead of manufacturing release or transfer.
MP

Global production transfer

Once the product is stable, we analyze low-cost country options and manage the transfer, or keep mass production in-region if that best meets the brief.

Every phase · integrated collaboration

Shared dashboards for BOMs, ECOs, QA, logistics, and finance keep global stakeholders aligned from concept through launch. Our Shenzhen facility runs on EquatorOps.

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Inside the build

Manufacturing technology

Our privately owned assembly factory in Shenzhen, China has passed audits by Walmart, SGS, and Deloitte. These are the processes on our floor and with our partners.