SmallHD creates high-end monitoring solutions for filmmakers that offer both durability and industry-leading brightness for daylight visibility. Flexible circuits help keep their product enclosures small while providing rugged reliability under a wide range of filming conditions.
Since 2015, SmallHD has trusted Flex Interconnect Technologies to produce flexible circuits and circuit assemblies for use in their line of monitors. As Electrical Design Engineer Rob Yost explains, SmallHD’s ongoing relationship with Flex Interconnect Technologies offers two key benefits.
Design Support
“Flex Interconnect Technologies has great pre-order design support, which is a must-have,” says Yost. By taking the time to understand how SmallHD’s customers use the company’s products, Flex Interconnect Technologies has been able to offer design suggestions that include:
- Applications Engineering, helping to ensure the product works as intended for years to come under whatever conditions SmallHD’s customers may want
- Manufacturing Engineering, to help improve the cost effectiveness of producing flex and rigid-flex components
Scaling with Offshore Production
Impressed with the quality of products and level of service throughout the prototyping phase, SmallHD again turns to Flex Interconnect Technologies for production. “Flex Interconnect Technologies’ ‘All-In’ approach to pricing makes it easier and more clear to present pricing options to our internal team,” says Yost.
Flex Interconnect Technologies offers SmallHD simplified offshore pricing that reflected the cost of the components delivered to the door, inclusive of costs such as shipping and tariffs.
Sticking with FIT from prototyping into offshore production also promised reduced risk, as SmallHD would not have to start the manufacturing process over again with a new vendor. “Our offshore partner for SmallHD has the same capabilities we have,” says Chetan Shah, CEO of Flex Interconnect Technologies. “This allows us to ramp up very quickly, with exceptional quality.”
In fact, despite having their own existing offshore relationships, SmallHD continues to leverage Flex Interconnect Technologies for production quantities of custom flexible circuit assemblies.
The Results
In the end, for both prototyping and production orders, Flex Interconnect Technologies has delivered 100% on-time and 100% quality scores for SmallHD for nearly ten years. Over that time, SmallHD has grown into a leading provider of monitors for filmmakers and videographers throughout the world.