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As a leading Scandinavian EMS supplier, Kitron provides various services within the manufacturing, assembling, and testing of electronic products for the professional market.
These services are provided from the group’s modern facilities in Norway (Arendal), Sweden (Jönköping), Denmark (Horsens), Lithuania (Kaunas), Poland (Grudziądz), the Czech Republic (Lanškroun), China (Ningbo and Suzhou), Malaysia (Johor), and USA (Windber, Pennsylvania).
Electronics, testing, assembly and system testing, system integration, repairs and upgrades.
Surface-mount technologies (SMT), through-hole assembly, microelectronics, Automated Press-Fit, Automated Optical Inspection (AOI), 3D X-ray, clean rooms, wave and selective soldering, cleaning and coating process for PCBs, and Potting & Curing, Hi-Pot, together with FCT, ICT, Burn-In, vibration and environmental testing, mechanical box-build and high-level complex assemblies.
Kitron complies with IPC standard Class 2 and Class 3 requirements, which are key manufacturing standards for the electronics manufacturing industry. IPC standards are associated with nearly every stage of the electronic product development cycle. From design and purchasing to assembly and packaging, compliance with IPC standards helps Kitron ensure superior quality, reliability, and consistency in the electronics assemblies that go into our customers' final electronic products. All Kitron employees are continuously trained according to IPC training programs.
Kitron works with an operational excellence program that includes LEAN concepts such as 5S, Six Sigma, Value Stream Mapping, SMED, PFMEA, Kaizen and daily management boards.
Complete automated assembly lines for PCBs, including various functional tests, product marking, traceability and packing of complete devices. These lines offer high reliability, repeatability, quality and throughput.
When developing highly complex products, Kitron provides customers with everything from ideas to finished products and after-sales services. We think product life-cycle from the start and are the ultimate one-stop-shop for outsourced product development and manufacturing services. We design and manufacture high-complexity products for global markets.
Examples of expertise Kitron offers:
Kitron has the expertise to take care of every step in the development process, from early concept design to volume manufacturing.
Kitron completes Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) for customers.
The close integration of Kitron's development department and manufacturing sites means we are well-placed to perform successful product re-designs.
With over 60 years of experience in electronics manufacturing, we know what matters when launching new products.
In our NPI (New Product Introduction) Centre, prototypes are produced by our highly qualified staff on our dedicated manufacturing line. We deliver quickly and with a strong focus on quality and cost. We also have a model-building workshop capable of constructing complete prototypes.
Our customers’ development projects benefit from our expertise in design for manufacturing, testing, component engineering and environmental requirements. We employ the leading test development experts in Scandinavia and deliver complete solutions for the efficient testing of electronics products.
In order to offer our customers the best possible service, we have dedicated staff and a dedicated manufacturing line for the production of prototypes.
Our experts are available to prepare product reviews. These reviews are based on standards, best practices as well as national and international requirements. Customers receive a written report with comments and recommendations, as well as an oral presentation of our experts’ findings.
Our component information system (CIS) enables you, as our customer, to rapidly search for and process information about current components for new projects.
Kitron develops state-of-the-art test systems for automated testing in production. Over the last 30 years, this department has worked on a wide range of projects within the following sectors: Connectivity, Electrification, Industry, Medical Devices and Defence/Aerospace.
Our trained staff design, build and optimize efficient manufacturing lines for your products. We work according to lean manufacturing and pride ourselves on quality and efficient manufacturing processes.
The market's expectations regarding product quality are constantly increasing. Kitron's customers are not satisfied with products that merely fulfil their specifications at the time of delivery and during the warranty period: all products should work without failures throughout their entire expected lifetime. Kitron has the resources to help you reach this level of quality performance.
Kitron’s sourcing experts are located in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, China, Malaysia, and the United States, enabling us to manage our global network of suppliers and ensure an optimal flow of components and materials to our manufacturing centres.
Kitron’s logistics team ensures the safe transport of products to our customers or all the way to the end customer if desired.
Kitron believes that its sourcing and logistics capabilities and expertise provide a significant competitive advantage in terms of lower material costs, better quality and a seamless supply chain for our customers.
By helping our customers choose components with good availability, right quality and at the best price, we help reduce the lifetime cost of our customers’ products. Kitron’s sourcing group continually sets aggressive targets to further reduce the cost of components and materials. To achieve this, we will increase our sourcing activities in China, while we continue to benchmark and develop suppliers in general and aim to benefit from major suppliers' market imperfections that could lead to better terms and conditions for our customers.
In addition to the core delivery, Kitron offers value-added sourcing services through our Chinese operations. This is done in order to assist customers to improve their competitive position through the reduction of material costs.
Kitron manages the flow of components from suppliers all over the world to our manufacturing facilities in Europe, Asia and America, then onward to our customers, and, in some cases, to our customers’ end customers. In other words, we manage logistics throughout the entire value chain, and we do it 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Kitron manages the logistics flow to give our customers a cost-effective advantage by meeting demanding logistics timetables, factoring in safety margins and reducing the amount of capital investment in inventories.
Some of Kitron’s competitive advantages are our detailed forecast capabilities and our close relationships with the world’s foremost electronic component suppliers and logistics providers.
Kitron can work with you for the full lifetime of your product. We even have the expertise to extend your product’s lifecycle.
We offer maintenance, repair and refurbishment programs. All such programs involve the establishment of customer-specific teams drawn from our purchasing, technical and production departments. The team will work with you and your product. The team members will get to know your product very well – enabling us to help you make your product even better.
When a product starts to show its age, a refurbishment program may extend the product’s lifecycle. Such a program might include both software and hardware upgrades. We have in-house software and hardware design expertise if a redesign is required. Kitron’s component information system (CIS) will assist you in identifying replacements for obsolete components.
All changes and work done on your product will be thoroughly documented, and we can supply you with a change history record.
As part of our portfolio of services, Kitron supports customers with activities related to product deployment.
Kitron’s strategy includes services beyond the traditional design, assembly, production, and testing of components and printed circuit board (PCB) assemblies. The newest addition to our portfolio of services is product deployment. This term encompasses a variety of tasks.
In some cases, when our customers acquire a new company, they approach Kitron for our support in taking over the manufacturing facilities of the newly acquired company. As part of our product deployment services, Kitron creates the necessary manufacturing documentation, including bill of materials and assembly instructions. We review and improve process flows, audit compliance with standards, train employees and provide many other services that secure a smooth transition into the new ownership.
Another example of product deployment would be activities involved in the setup of a new plant in a specific country to satisfy offset requirements for defence customers. Kitron defines the plant layout, generates work instructions, trains employees, develops test systems, installs equipment, implements operational excellence tools and performs numerous other activities that will ensure the efficiency of the new facility.
