Wot, No Starbucks!

It seems appropriate that on the day Europe's largest shopping centre opened in West London, UK distributor ACAL Technology announced its own one stop shop to support customers.

 

 

To use an old fashioned idiom, the Wokingham-based company has put its money where its mouth is to the tune of six figures to tool up an impressive range of design and manufacturing services. It's a real soup to nuts job boasting specialist technical support and a full range of in-house design and assembly resources for end-to-end product development and systems integration. It just seems to be missing a Starbucks!

ACAL Technology’s Sales and Marketing Director, Steve Carr, explained, “We believe that the Centre provides customers with distribution’s most comprehensive in-house range of design and assembly services. By providing immediate access to every service required to take products from development to complete system integration, ACAL strips away unnecessary delays between multiple suppliers to achieve the most concentrated design cycle.”

The investment encompasses a 3-metre EMC chamber for pre-compliance testing, extensive CAD and specialist test equipment, and a device programming centre as well as connector and  some fancy fibre-optic cable assembly (see picture).

The secure device programming centre has a capacity of 30,000 units and features state-of-the-art software as well as dry-packing, marking and labelling. With a capacity of over 250,000 units per annum, the connector assembly centre supports ACAL Technology’s position as

Europe

’s leading assembly distributor for Amphenol military circular connectors.  The centre assembles nine different ranges of military circular connectors, as well as connectors for industrial and other harsh environments, and offers fast turn-round with no minimum order quantity. 

The ACAL Design and Manufacturing Services Centre can also assemble physical contact and expanded beam (lens) fibre-optic cables and copper cabling. Other assembly services include PCB layout, power-supply construction, and rack and enclosure fabrication, as well as software installation, documentation, and functional or soak testing.

 

If I'm an ACAL supplier I've got to like this investment. Shame about the Starbucks