Systems and Business Engineering
Conceptual Development
System Architecture
Product Roadmap Development
Requirements Development
Trade Studies (Technical, Cost, Function, Make/Buy)
Regulatory Liaison (UL/ETL, FCC
Assembly, Integration, Test Planning
Requirements Verification
Configuration and Data Management
Quality Assurance Liaison (ISO, 6 Sigma, Lean)
Manufacturing Process and Control, Layout
IP Protection Strategies (Patent/Trademark/Trade Secret)
Market Assessment
Cost Modeling
Business Model Development
Competition Assessment
Customer Discovery and Definition
Sourcing Liaison
Proposal Development and Support
Mechanical and Electrical Design and manufacturing
Engineering services (design,materials, thermal, components, power, RF)
Mechanical and Electrical CAD services
In-house 3D printing services
Product design
Electronics packaging
Mechanical and Electrical Prototyping
Functional and Field testing
UL/ETL internal testing
Low rate manufacturing
Low rate board production (SMT with in house pick and place including BGA)
Manufacturing liaison (design for manufacturing, high rate transition planning)
Schematic Layout
Prototype PCBs (surface mount, through hole)
Test fixtures and automated testing processes
Microcontroller coding services
Wireless/RF services
Sensor Development
Electrical Design Liaison
Software and Data Services
Graphical User Software
Simulations
Prototyping
Web Applications
Phone/Tablet/Hub applications
Database Applications
Regression Testing
Software development liaison
Database design
Database hosting
Data Services liaison
Data Security liaison
“Birkeland Current has done more in the past few months in pushing our technology forward, than we had accomplished in the past two years.””