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EnCata provides services in PCB design and industrial electrical engineering. We design and manufacture a PCB, develop firmware and IoT architecture, design an automation system, and program a controller. We also design a power supply system for a robot, IoT-based device, or battery management system for a drone at your request.
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Custom electronic design is a significant part of engineering services provided by our company. We provide electronic product design consulting services from TRL-3 to TRL-8. Our team could be your experienced and effective electronic design consultant. We have taken part in custom electronic product design and manufacturing from over 20 industries.
Our engineers develop PCBs with communication modules, power electronics and battery management systems, industrial automation, and build internet of things networks. We work with main IoT cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, GCP, and more.
We act as your extended R&D team which is faster than hiring engineers locally. The breadth of our technical expertise is unique.
Our dedicated team is ready to scale up quickly. We utilize AGILE lean development process that leads to 30-50% faster delivery.
Our development location enables us to be cost-effective and deliver premium R&D and engineering services at 1/3 of the price compared to that of in N-W Europe and USA.
Electronic product design services are a part of our holistic approach to new product development. At EnCata, electrical engineering projects are supported by mechanical engineers, procurement managers, and simulation engineers. The team focuses on the global goal, but not on the narrow task. Use cases and maintenance processes, components sourcing, overheating and complying standards are in the focus.
Our electronic design services include custom PCB design, POC development, testing particular units or features, manufacturing of the final PCB, and uploading firmware on it. As a result, we get a fully functional electronic module or internet of things device and a set of documents for mass production.
Modern smart devices can not operate without firmware. Our company works at all stages of electronic design. We prefer to use C designing firmware for simple devices and we like to use Linux Embedded for the development of multifunctional devices. Our engineers worked a lot with internet of things connectivity issues and devices.
Electronic design and manufacturing are closely related to the development of the device enclosure. Sometimes protection from humidity and dust requires complex sealing contours. Connectors and buttons make it difficult to seal. We design enclosures with several sealing circuits, we can work with compounds for sealing electronics.
Our experience shows it is always better to test an important hypothesis for a product as early as possible. The development of POC electronics is different from the development of a final PCB. It is critical to understand both the business objectives and basic engineering principles, as well as the skill to carry out experiments.
We do not produce PCBs by the thousands, but we can recommend a manufacturing company for your electronics ready for mass production. We will assign an electronic design consultant who takes care of communicating with the manufacturer. Some components may become outdated and even be discontinued. Some changes could be requested by the OEM. We will adapt the PCB design, BOM, drilling scheme, and Gerber files.
Often, the custom electronic design requires R&D services before the engineering stage. It is almost impossible to make a new product with unique properties based on old technical solutions. It is important to make a clear plan that coincides with the goals of the product. As a result, the research will not turn into a nightmare for the budget.
Before hiring electronic engineering or product design companies, it is important to understand the new product or financial performance features. Our engineers conduct a technical analysis to understand what level of technology is needed to gain a competitive advantage. Our business analysts calculate the financial indicators for informed decisions about the start of a project.
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Our company is used to following the proven electronic design process despite the diversity of electrical systems. We start with requirements elicitation to discover must-have features and consider possible use cases. Then, the lead engineer builds the structural diagram and creates the draft bill of materials. The procurement engineer checks the market availability of the components.
The lead engineer adjusts the PCB design and approves the BOM with a product owner. Then we buy the components and build a mock-up to test step-by-step features and components. At the same time, we work on the firmware, make simulations using electrical engineering design software and consult with mechanical designers. Usually, 2 or 3 iterations are necessary to obtain PCB ready for mass production.
Engineering electronics changes greatly every year. 5 years ago, the majority of our customers asked us to implement their prototype on an Arduino or Raspberry, and then transfer that prototype to one board and configure data transmission over Wi-Fi.Now we design embedded electronics based on multilayer PCBs with high-performance processors, complex energy management systems. BLE, LoRa, or NB-IoT have become the main technologies that our customers ask to use in their products.
If your goal is to create a fabrication line or a system for automating some physical process in your company, then we can select the necessary executive mechanism and sensors based on your business requirements. We can further choose a suitable controller and program it, creating an HMI that will suit your employees or end-users.If you are developing a new product that should collect data about the environment or user behavior, then most likely you have formulated requirements for sensors and other interfaces that interact with the user. If not, it can be easily done by analyzing user stories. You can choose the elements that will perform the main function of your device.
However, for the device to work stably and for a long time, it is necessary to design and debug all auxiliary electrical systems: IoT architecture, power supply, data storage, processing, and transmission. This is often not the easiest task. We usually solve such issues at the stage of electronics prototyping. Step by step, we find answers to the questions on the shelf of the concept verification stage. As a result, we get a printed circuit board with full functionality. The result is a PCB ready for tests in real conditions with real users.
We focus on the entire product/service lifecycle, from concept to implementation to market launch. EnCata’s knowledge, resources and innovation development expertise allow our Clients to develop and expand their businesses faster and leaner.
EnCata can provide your startup with the end-to-end product development service in both hardware and software domains coupled with the outstanding inhouse prototyping facilities.
Turn to EnCata if you need our premimum consultancy services (concept review, design / CAD review or advice on software architecture code you produced) only when our advice is needed.
Come to EnCata with your CAD to produce parts for your prototype in EnCata. Assemble and test your prototype at our MakeIT Center fablab - we don't charge for the access!
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Our hardware engineers are focus on the entire product/service lifecycle, from concept to implementation to market launch. EnCata’s knowledge, resources and innovation development expertise allow our Clients to develop and expand their businesses faster and leaner.
Warehouse and fulfilment robots, Plant and Process Automation, Lean Manufacturing, Digial Twins Development, Connected Equipment, Predictive Maintanance, Industrial Computer platform
Medical devices & equipment, IoMT, Diagnostic Tools, Robotics and Precision Placement, Optical System, Medical Instruments & Consumables, Micro and Macro Fluidic Systems, Custom Rehabilitation Equipment
Smart Farming, Food Delivery Robots, Smart Agriculture and Crop Management, Sustainable Farming, Food Ribitics, Farm Apparatus Design, Farm & Irigation Automation, Agricultural Mechanization, Greeenhouse Automation, Climate Monitoring
Cut your development speed and costs by half with our in-house design, engineering, and manufacturing capabilities for breakthrough new products from just an idea phase.
Laboratory Instruments, Test Benches, Biological Storage, Microfluidics, Biological Laboratory, Spectrometers, Automated Clinical Instruments, Custom Scientific Apparatus, Pilot Plants, Chemistry Laboratory, Centrifuge, Sample Preparation
Industrial IoT gateway, Compact Industrial Box PC, SCADA automation, Performance Trackers and Sensors, Logistics, Real-time Monitoring, Retail Systems, Inventory Tracking, Production Flow monitoring, Fleet Management
When working with our clients we sign a contract where all the intellectual property to be generated during the R&D and engineering development belongs to the customer.
Yes. As a highly professional design and engineering firm, we make sure that all discussions with our clients and all information regarding your invention, idea and other proprietary information are kept confidential.
Aside from being a reputable company which does not steal ideas, EnCata's entire business model is based on delivering premium R&D, design and industrial prototyping services to our clients. As soon as we stole one client’s idea, our entire business would be ruined. Also, as we are not contract manufacturers (OEM or ODM), we wouldn’t be able to benefit from a stolen idea even if we wanted to. This is definitely not a worry for our clients.
We follow a LEAN approach in product and business development and thus we strongly recommend patent filings only after you are at least part-way through development. This is because patenting is expensive and early patents can already become obsolete or irrelevant later in the development phase. Typically, EnCata's work generates many patentable opportunities for our clients and the best strategy is to file patents at TRL-7, i.e. when early beta prototype is ready and when a startup is ready to start batch production and marketing.
There is, however, another strategy, which is to use provisional patents which can be loose and are not to be disclosed to the public for 18 months. These are much less expensive and time consuming, generally costing below $500. EnCata will always sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement and keep your intellectual property confidential during the development phase and then we can recommend several third-party patent attorneys when the time is right.
Whether you need to validate, evaluate or review your design, concept, 3D model, BOM or drawings, our experienced manufacturing, mechanical and electronics engineers are ready to help.
EnCata’s engineering consultancy service will allow you to critically reassess your project and help reach your goals while keeping the process cost-effective. To read more about the TRL and learn why it is useful, please procees to our blog.
EnCata develops integrated Hardware and Software solutions for a variety of industries. We are engaged in multiple domains like IoT, robotics, medTech and IoMT, aerospace, agriculture, consumer products and many others. It is possible to work with such a wide variety of industries because we have multidomain expertise and utilize a cross-disciplinary product development approach.
Generally speaking, we do not allow clients to work on EnCata's manufacturing premises.
What does work, however, is that EnCata can manufacture prototype parts and the startup team can assemble thea prototype in our MakeIT Center hackerspace. Alternatively, the startup can design and build the prototype themselves in our hackerspace. We operate this free-access space in Minsk and we are currently working on expanding a hackerspace network worldwide.
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