Arrow OEM Computing Solutions

Arrow Electronics North American Components

Design Engineering Services

Arrow OCS provides a broad range of high-quality, customizable design engineering services to complement any business need. Our unique link within the OEM's vertical market sector means that we can tap into specialized services and expertise and design and build projects can be forecasted and effectively managed. Project engagements are collaborative and interactive, with manufacturability, time-to-market delivery and cost-sensitivity maintained as key priorities.

Telecommunications, medical instrumentation, video and digital imaging, industrial process control, banking, defense, kiosks, digital signage, and security are just some of the customer segments benefiting from our services at all points in the product life cycle.

Hardware — System

  • Enclosures
    • Custom Enclosure
    • Customization of off-the-shelf enclosures
    • Custom Power Solutions
  • Platform Builder
  • System Design & Qualification
  • Custom Power Solutions
  • Testing
    • Electrical
    • Thermal
    • Regulatory Certifications (UL/CE/FCC/NEBS/Mil Spec)
  • PCB Design/Stuffing
  • Custom Packaging
  • Military Ruggedization — PCB/System/Display
  • Storage Design/Customization
  • Conformal Coating

Hardware — Flat Panel

  • Mechanical Design
  • Flat Panel Builder and Rapid Design
  • Custom Enclosure
  • Custom Flat Panel Design
  • Touchscreen Qualification & Integration
    • Testing
  • Panel Enhancements (high-brighting, backlight)
  • Ruggedization (Military and Commercial)

Software

  • Full Suite of Microsoft Embedded Products
  • Full customization of Images, BIOS and Drivers to customer's application
  • Board support packages (BSP)
    • Windows CE
    • Linux
    • XPE Driver Components
  • All levels of software including Middleware
  • O/S Porting (Microsoft, Linux, Solaris, etc)
  • Application Development
  • Training and support contracts
  • Onsite contractors
  • Full outsource capability

Vertical Market Customization

  • Federal/Military/Aerospace
  • Communications
  • Medical
  • Gaming/Test & Measurement/Point of Access
  • Printing & Imaging

In today's marketplace many companies have made the financially based decision to reduce their internal resources. Increasingly, companies' engineering expertise is centered on their core competency and intellectual property (IP). Arrow OCS can provide the additional engineering skills and resources required to cost effectively collaborate on developing the hardware and software solutions required to complete the total solution.

Many customers have been able to design products more efficiently, as various design teams collaborate through the effective exchange of information and resource optimization. This approach yields high quality products, speeds the critical time to market demands and can reduce the total costs to manufacture and deploy, thereby giving the customer a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

Arrow possesses unique links within the OEMs vertical market sector, giving us the opportunity to tap into specialized services and expertise. This means that complete design and build projects can be projected and effectively managed.

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