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We provide solution-based Electronic Manufacturing Services that are progressively scalable to large-volume, high-mix, complex PCB assembly and complete Higher-Level Assembly integration.

SMT Engineering

Engineering Solutions Designed for Agility.  Built for Execution.

Outsourcing electronic design requires more than ideas, it demands trust, experience, and execution.  At SMT, we bridge the gap between concept and production with engineering services tailored to accelerate development while reducing risk.

Whether you're looking for full turnkey support or need targeted design resources to augment your team, SMT delivers flexible, scalable, reliable solutions built to launch products.

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Why OEMs Choose SMT for Engineering

  • Designed for Reality: Our engineers don't just design great boards, they design assemblies that can be built reliably, tested efficiently, and quoted accurately.  That's the difference between a design firm and a manufacturing partner.
  • Speed to Prototype: Fast-turn builds with IPC-compliant processes and real-time DFM feedback.
  • Seamless Integration: Designs flow directly into our production lines, reducing transfer risk and delay.
  • IP Integrity: You retain full ownership of all design files, firmware, and documentation.  No exceptions. 

 

Our Engineering Capabilities

  • Hardware Design: Custom analog, digital, and mixed-signal systems built for performance and manufacturability.
  • Firmware Development: Embedded systems coding in C/C++ and Python, optimized for reliability, seamless connectivity, and low power.
  • Software Engineering: Applications and interfaces that bring hardware to life - ready for user control, testing, or data capture.
  • PCB Layout Design: High-density, multi-layer PCB design and layout with industry proven performance and manufacturability.
  • Product Verification: Full-stack validation across mechanical, electrical, and firmware domains to ensure compliance and functionality.
  • Production Test Solutions: Functional test design, fixture development, and automated test coverage to ensure what we ship works every time.
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Built in DFM / DFT Expertise

Designing a product that works is one thing.  Designing it to built, test, and scale successfully is another.

At SMT, we embed Design for Manufacturability (DFM) and Design for Test (DFT) thinking into every engineering engagement, from schematic review through layout, test point planning, and fixture design.  That means fewer revisions, faster ramp, and more confidence when your build hits the floor.

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Our DFM approach includes:

  • Real-time DFM feedback during layout and prototyping
  • Test strategy planning during early design, not post-build
  • Automated checks for PCB spacing, routing, and component risk
  • Integration with in-house test fixture design and validation
  • Collaborative review with SMT production, quality, and test teams

Whether you're starting from scratch or handing off an in-process design, we help make sure what you send to build is built to succeed.

Let's Turn Your Concept Into Reality

SMT's Engineering team is ready to accelerate your project with technical competence, product development experience, flexibility, and execution discipline.

Partner with SMT to bring your product to life - ready for launch, built to last!

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IoT Wireless

SMT offers end-to-end wireless solutions for diverse industries and applications, from marketing demos to full turnkey development.

As the wireless landscape evolves, SMT stays ahead by analyzing market trends, competitive technologies, and designing efficient, cutting-edge solutions. Whether embedding wireless capabilities into existing product controls or creating fully certified standalone modules, SMT delivers results that keep you ahead.

Our expertise includes:

  • Wi-Fi
  • Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)
  • LoRa
  • Zigbee
  • Cellular
  • RFID
  • Ethernet, CAN bus, and PoE protocols

Partner with SMT for wireless innovations that power your products!

Appliance Controls

SMT is a leader in electronics and controls for appliances, including commercial cooking, refrigeration, and residential systems. From basic temperature controls to sophisticated graphical interfaces, SMT excels in complex system integration.

Specializations:

  • Cost-effective designs using 8-32 bit processors running Linux or real-time operating systems.
  • IoT capabilities, touchless controls, and industrial graphics.
  • Custom solutions across diverse industries.

Collaborate with SMT to develop a technology roadmap that keeps you ahead.

LED Lighting

From energy savings to enhances performance, SMT delivers custom LED lighting solutions. Our expertise spans to motion/photo sensors, DMX512 controls, and cloud-based wireless connectivity, ensuring intelligent lighting systems that exceed expectations.

Capabilities include:

  • Dim-to-warm designs
  • Custom color and intensity solutions
  • Full IP ownership for all designs
  • Durability in extreme environments
  • Advanced LED optics and turnkey fixture designs

Bring your lighting innovations to life with SMT!

Graphical User Interface

Enhance usability with SMT’s expert Graphical User Interface (GUI) development. Our solutions include custom hardware panels, multimedia controls, and integrated LCD screens, delivering intuitive interfaces that elevate user experiences.

Benefits of a GUI

  • Improved accessibility
  • Reduced training requirements
  • Direct and intuitive control
  • Simplified maintenance
  • Increased productivity

Trust SMT to create GUIs that empower users and maximize efficiency. 

Sensor Technology

Leverage SMT’s advanced capabilities in sensor technology to develop innovative and reliable solutions across a wide range of applications.

Specializations

  • Chemical & Gas Sensors
  • Flow Sensors
  • Optical Sensors
  • Pressure, Temperature, & Humidity Sensors
  • Instrumentation & Calibration
  • Wireless Sensor Integration

Tailor your sensor solutions with SMT’s expertise.

Battery Management

SMT designs advanced Battery Management Systems (BMS) to meet the growing demand for rechargeable batteries in versatile applications.  Our solutions ensure safe operation within voltage, current, and temperature ranges while optimizing battery performance and lifespan.

Benefits of BMS Solutions

  • Enhanced battery lifespan and performance
  • Advanced performance metrics and data collection
  • Increased portability and versatility
  • Reduced maintenance requirements

Power your products with SMT’s innovative BMS designs.

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Rapid Prototyping

Accelerate Your Product Development.

At SMT, we understand that speed and precision are critical in bringing your electronic products to market. Our Rapid Prototyping Solutions are designed to transform your concepts into functional prototypes swiftly, ensuring a smooth transition from design to full-scale production.

What We Offer:

  • Quick-Turn PCB Assembly: Dedicated SMT lines and a fast-track process enable us to deliver production-quality prototypes on accelerated timelines, often within days.
  • Integrated DFM & DFT Reviews: Our engineering team reviews every build for manufacturability and test coverage, helping you avoid costly surprises in later stages.
  • Seamless Production Handoff: Built to flow directly into production, which enables a seamless handoff that minimizes delays, reduces risk, and keeps momentum moving forward.

Why Choose SMT for Rapid Prototyping?

  • Speed & Execution: We move fast without skipping steps so you can iterate with confidence and launch without delays.
  • Engineering Partnership: Our team brings decades of experience across design, layout, and test, offering feedback that improves outcomes and avoids redesign loops.
  • Scalable Flexibility: From one board to one hundred or beyond, we adapt to your volume and build requirements without forcing you into a one-size-fits-all model.
  • Quality-Driven, Every Time: Even in prototype stage, every SMT build is backed by the same IPC-compliant workmanship and inspection standards used in production.
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Supply Chain Solutions

Built for Volatility. Structured for Resilience.

In today’s electronics landscape, parts go on allocation, tariffs reshape cost models, and launch windows shift overnight. SMT brings the systems, insight, and flexibility to help OEMs stay in control, because your supply chain isn’t just a function, it’s a competitive edge.

How We Help You Stay in Control

  • Regional Sourcing & Reshoring Support: We help OEMs transition away from offshore risk with U.S.-based production, vetted regional suppliers, and reduced exposure to geopolitical volatility.
  • Tariff Mitigation & BOM Engineering: Our team works upstream with your engineers to identify HTS classifications, explore alternate sourcing, and apply tariff-conscious design principles that preserve margins without sacrificing performance.
  • Proactive Material Planning: Our systems forecast demand and identify risk early, so allocation issues don’t delay your launch. We align sourcing, lead times, and engineering to eliminate surprises.
  • Live Supply Chain Dashboards: Material availability, shortages, substitutes, and inbound POs are monitored in real-time. You get the same visibility we use to execute daily.
  • Flow-Driven Execution, Not Firefighting: SMT doesn’t just buy parts, we plan material flow around your build. Our purchasing, inventory, and planning teams work daily with production to prevent shortages before they occur.

 

Why SMT for Supply Chain?

  • Execution starts before the first PO: We engage during quoting, design, and sourcing so supply chain isn’t an afterthought.
  • Agile, transparent, and Hands-On: We escalate, communicate, and resolve fast, because silence isn’t a strategy. Our team tells you what’s happening and what we’re doing about it.
  • Our sourcing model emphasizes redundancy: multiple qualified sources, regional options, and supplier performance tracking to ensure continuity over the long haul.
  • SMT helps customers navigate evolving tariff and trade rules through dynamic BOM sourcing and HTS code strategies that defend margins and speed up customs clearance
  • A U.S. Partner for a Global Risk Environment: When international volatility hits, SMT gives you a steady, domestic EMS anchor, reliable, transparent, and responsive.
  • We shrink lead times from months to weeks, not through expediting, but by designing supply chains that use data to create options.

 

Need to De-Risk Your Supply Chain?

Let’s walk through your sourcing challenges, tariff exposure, and long-lead risks before they cost you time, money, or credibility. SMT’s supply chain strategy is proactive, not reactive.

New Product Introduction

From Concept to Market with Confidence.

Bringing a new product to market takes more than vision, it takes discipline. At SMT, our NPI framework is engineered to turn complex ideas into manufacturable, testable, and scalable products, without the delays, surprises, or handoff risks that derail launches.

From first prototype to pilot builds, we drive your product through a defined, execution-focused process, because the real test of a design is whether it can be built right, the first time.

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Our NPI Process:

  1. Design Transfer & Technical Review: Detailed BOM, schematic, and layout analysis to ensure clarity, sourcing viability, and manufacturability.
  2. DFM/DFT Integration: Early reviews for spacing, tolerances, test point coverage, material risk, and mechanical fit, real-world readiness before the first build.
  3. Prototype Build Execution: We bring early designs to life with speed and precision, building prototypes that reflect real-world production conditions and support confident iteration.
  4. FAI / Functional Testing: Initial inspection and functional testing to confirm assembly-level fit, form, and function, including First Article Inspection (FAI) and any necessary test setup or debugging.
  5. Pilot Run & Production Ramp Planning: Controlled pilot run with process refinements, test optimization, and change control procedures aligned to your launch window.

Why SMT for NPI?

  • Execution Discipline: We don't just “develop” products, we quote, build, test, and deliver at real-world speed and standards.
  • Cross-Functional Agility: Engineering, planning, quality, and production are looped in early, reducing iteration loops and handoff friction.
  • Prototype-to-Production Continuity: From first unit to full scale, every build runs through the same workflows, ensuring consistency, reliability, and zero surprises when it’s time to ramp up.
  • Visibility & Accountability: You stay in the loop with clear communication, regular milestone updates, and honest post-build feedback, so you always know where things stand and who’s responsible.

 

Let's Bring Your Product to Life

Partner with SMT to navigate the complexities of New Product Introduction with confidence.  Our integrated approach ensures that your product moves from concept to market efficiently, without compromising on quality or performance.

Manufacturing

At SMT, manufacturing is where everything comes together, design, sourcing, planning, and testing in perfect sync. It’s a dynamic hub where challenges are met with solutions, and where close collaboration with OEMs drives exceptional results.

We solve problems together, on the floor, with data, and without excuses.

 

How We Build at SMT

  • Optimized SMT Lines for Assembly Characteristics: Our SMT lines are configured based on build requirements, whether fine-pitch, high-density, or feeder count, balancing speed, flexibility, and first-pass yield. 
  • Traceability: Every component, board, and process step, from inbound materials to final inspection and testing are traceable to meet customer requirements.
  • Closed-Loop Feedback: We monitor labor times, defects, yield, and WIP all in real time.
  • Advanced Planning & Supply Chain Integration: From supplier alignment to material availability in modeling, our planning systems keep production moving, so builds stay on schedule.
  • Cross-Functional Manufacturing Team: Engineering, quality, and operations work in sync, surfacing risk early, minimizing rework, and ensuring alignment from quote to shipment.

Our Capabilities

  • Built for Precision: Our ITAR-registered facility runs 24/5 across three shifts in a fully climate-controlled, ESD-safe environment, designed for flexibility, speed, and reliability.
  • Advanced Capabilities: From 01005 to high ball count BGAs on flex, rigid, metal-clad, and complex boards. We also offer automated conformal coating and encapsulation, delivering precise builds for demanding applications.
  • In-House Testing: We back every build with thorough on-site testing, X-ray, AOI, in-circuit, and functional, plus custom fixture development to make sure your product performs exactly as it should.

 

Certifications:

  • Quality Management: ISO 9001:2015
  • Environmental Management: ISO 14001:2015
  • Medical Devices: ISO 13485:2016
  • Regulatory Compliance: ITAR, IPC-A-610 Class 1, 2, 3, RoHS Compliant, UL, CSA, GIDEP member
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What Makes SMT Different

  • We Engage: We don’t wait for problems to hit the floor, we engage early to align design, sourcing, and test with what it takes to build successfully.
  • We Quote What We Can Deliver: We model time, materials, risk, and test complexity
  • Transparent Communication: You’ll have a clear view into your build, from key milestones to real-time updates. If an issue comes up, we’ll let you know right away, and come prepared with more solutions.
  • We Build Around You: Our tools, processes, and teams flex to your environment, not the other way around. From NPI to repeat runs, we scale with your needs, not against them.
  • Our Leaders Are on the Floor: SMT isn’t run from conference rooms. Our leadership team walks the floor, clears roadblocks, and owns delivery outcomes personally.

 

Markets We Serve

  • Aerospace & Military
  • Automotive & Transportation
  • Consumer
  • Industrial Controls
  • Medical
  • Lighting
  • Food Service
  • Security Systems

 

Build With a Partner That Solves—Not Just Ships

If you've dealt with late deliveries, silence when things go wrong, or handoffs that turn into headaches, SMT is your alternative.

We bring engineering, planning, and manufacturing together to build smarter, from the first quote to final delivery. Not for you, with you.

 

Our Commitment:

We don't just build products; we build trust. By engaging deeply with our clients, leveraging data-driven insights, and maintaining open lines of communication, SMT ensures that manufacturing challenges are addressed head-on, delivering results that meet and exceed expectations.

Let’s build something better, faster, and more resilient—together.

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Higher-Level Assembly

From Boards to Fully Built Systems.

At SMT, we don’t stop at the PCB. Our Higher-Level Assembly (HLA) capabilities bring together electronics, mechanics, cabling, and enclosures into fully integrated systems, built and delivered with confidence.

 

 

Our HLA Capabilities

  • System-Level Integration: All components are assembled into complete units, validated, tested, and ready to ship.
  • Enclosure Fit, Mounting & Branding: We manage tolerance stacks, mounting hardware, standoffs, labeling, and customer-supplied enclosures with care and consistency.
  • Final Assembly Testing: Functional test and serialized validation using your test protocol or custom-built fixtures.
  • Packaging & Direct Ship to Distribution: Custom packaging, labeling, and documentation for direct-to-distribution no need to re-handle.

 

Why SMT for Higher-Level Assembly?

  • Built With System-Level Thinking: Our teams understand cable routing, serviceability, and product lifecycle, so your unit works in the field, not just on the bench.
  • Process-Controlled, Not Pieced Together: Every subassembly follows a defined traveler, inspection gate, and test protocol.
  • Designed to Scale: Whether you need 10 units or 1,000 and beyond, our teams adapt to build complexity, documentation level, and quality expectations.
  • One Build, One Source of Truth: SMT provides full assembly documentation, traceability, and revision control across electrical and mechanical configurations.

 

When You Need More Than a Box Build

If your product has cables, mounting hardware, software load, mechanical alignment, or multiple subassemblies, SMT is built to handle it. We don’t treat HLA as an afterthought. We treat it like the product your customers will see, use, and rely on.

Let’s build it right—start to finish.

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