Don Electronics

Why us?

Don Electronics are a highly specialised embedded electronics company that have the skills and capability to support all your design and manufacturing requirements. With a wealth of experience in providing business to business solutions for process control and monitoring in Hazardous areas, we are the one stop solution you require. Our expertise expands into multiple industry sectors from bulk granular processing, to heat tracing control to unit handling.

We want to support you with our design and manufacturing capability to enable you to bring your ideas to market in as quick a timescale as possible. Our aim is to be your design and manufacturing team so you can concentrate on creating new ideas and selling your brand across the world.

Design

We take your ideas and bring these to reality through a customer focused approach that takes pride in guiding your project from conception to completion. Our highly capable team will work closely with you encompassing S.M.A.R.T. and AGILE methodology to provide you with the solution to your modern embedded device needs.

Taking your ideas from concept to reality

Don Electronics has extensive experience in designing products for Hazardous Location environments (in particular dust and gas) and more than 90% of our products have been approved by third party bodies including IECEx, CSA, NEPSI Ex, EAC Ex, CCC and INMETRO as well as North American Ordinary Location approvals. Our team has worked across a multitude of high performing industry sectors such as bulk material handling and petroleum processing and ensured these products met country specific approvals to allow for global distribution. We provide continuous support throughout our full product development cycle including post launch support to keep products up to date with the ever-changing technological environment and lower our partners future expenses.

Our Design Team at Don Electronics will take your concept and work with you through our Product Development Cycle.

Our in-house team have access to software and equipment that gives us full control of the design process and the ability to work to deadlines that suit your needs. Our range includes:

Project Control and Management software
PCB Design software applications
2D/3D CAD/CAM, Modelling
Microcontroller programming/firmware utilities
GUI scripting software

Throughout our history we have gained valuable insight into how specific industries tackle individual problems and we take that knowledge to support developments across all industries and product types. Our experienced design team’s capabilities include:

Complete concept to manufacturing design services for sensors and control devices for installation in Dust and Gas hazardous environments
Embedded software architecture
Embedded programming of microcontrollers like Microchip’s PIC, AVR, STM32
Real-time operating systems
Networking and associated protocols
PLC Programming
Graphical User Interface including displays, key and touch pads
IoT and wireless products
Cloud connectivity and processing
App Development to complement the hardware
Hardware and PCB Design Services
Integration with custom hardware, hardware verification and bring up
System integration
Verification, validation and field testing
Design for manufacturing
High skills on hand soldering for prototyping or small batch productions
Capabilities for fast prototyping using in-house pick and place machine and reflow oven
Prototyping and mock-up demonstrations

Please do not hesitate to contact us so we can help you in getting your concept to reality.

Prototyping

As part of our Design process we look to create real world prototypes to help our customers understand how the product will look and feel. We believe this part of the process gives all involved a very good understanding of the product and also gives confidence in the product throughout the project.

Giving a hands on feel of your products at an early stage

Our prototyping falls into two distinct categories, Electronic and Mechanical. Don Electronics has the capability of taking your concept to completion under one roof covering both these categories.

For Mechanical prototyping, we use the latest CAD modelling software to take your concept to a visual definition. We follow this up with a 3D printed version for discussion and then produce a final prototype using our 4-axis XYZ CNC machine.

This process further complements the teams’ ability to produce fast turnaround prototype parts for our projects. We can react to changes in customer requirements in a timely manner, often bringing young designs to maturity at a faster rate than competitors. Our highly skilled engineering team regularly create new tooling to implement better and more efficient methods of production and product test and support.

Our in-house mechanical prototyping capabilities include:

CAD Modelling Software (Solidworks)
3D Printers
4 Axis Vertical CNC (XYZ 750 LR VMC)
CNC and Manual Lathes
Laser Welding capability
General machine shop processes for metals and plastics
Environmental Testing Chambers
Standard Test Equipment Required for Research and Development

For Electronic prototyping, our experienced hardware and software engineers bring together your concepts through various stages of development

Our in-house electronic prototyping capabilities include:

Electronics design from concept to completion
First pass concept electronics
Schematic capture
PCB design
Small volume PCB build
Full specification design and build of electronics
Testing for approvals certifications
Custom Tooling creation
Small volume sample runs using our pick and place capability

With the aid of our sister company Synatel we can produce larger volume machining and PCB manufacture and population.

Certification and Approvals

If you require specialist approvals for your products, Don Electronics is vastly experienced in bringing together our customer’s concepts and ideas and turning them into commercially approved products for all types of industries. We have the knowledge and expertise to gain country specific certification such as North American Ordinary Location, to allow you to sell your products on a global scale.

Providing you the ability to operate on a global scale

Don Electronics has extensive experience in gaining Hazardous (Haz Loc and Ex) approval in the EU, North America, Brazil, China and the Eurasian Economic Area referencing IEC 60079, ISO/IEC 80079 and UL1203 as well as IEC 61010 (UL508).

Our Business Management System is ISO 9001:2015 certified and helps us to improve the quality of our products and how we do what we do.

We have worked with many approval houses around the world and have forged partnerships to allow the smooth adoption of your required standards into your products.

Our partnerships extend to the following Certification Organisations

SGS Baseefa (UK)
SGS Shanghai (China)
SGS Fimko (Finland)
CSA (North America)
UL (North America)
FM (North America)
NCC (Brasil)
Sercons (EEA)
Element (UK)
Eurofins (UK)

Alongside our Hazardous approval capabilities, we will ensure your products are marked with both CE and UKCA marks. We will also ensure your products conform for the North American market space if required.

Manufacture and Testing

At Don Electronics we work closely alongside our customers and listen to their needs and requirements to develop, manufacture and deliver products to match or better their high standards. Our in-house manufacturing team have the knowledge and flexibility that allows us to produce on a scale from small batch runs to full quantity manufacture.

Our in-house manufacturing team is committed to providing you the best quality products that meet your industry needs and requirements

Throughout each project we act as your dedicated development and manufacturing partner for all your electrical and electronic products and are committed to delivering items on time to customer request. We can quickly adapt to changing customer demands and upscale production when needed to deliver quality products early. Our team ship products all over the world and can badge your goods and use your brand on all packing material, adding manuals and installation instructions.

The manufacture of your products is extremely important to us and as such it is a major part of the design process. Our Design team and manufacturing team discuss how to best manufacture your ideas as efficiently as possible from the outset so you can be assured your products will be manufactured with cost and efficiency in mind.

Our team offers:

On time delivery to customer request
Branded packing materials including manuals, instructions and so on
Adaptability to changing customer demands
Low to high scale production capabilities
Access to all machinery listed in design and prototyping sections

Continued Development (Post Launch Support)

We believe that once your product has launched the hard work does not stop there. At Don Electronics we fully believe that each product has a life cycle which will see it grow and develop over time.

Supporting continued development of your products for years to come’

Our team is committed to ensuring your products can move with ever changing technological environments, which is why we offer continued support after the launch. We consider releasing and field trialling products with the view to fix bugs and enhance features after customer feedback as one of the most important stages in the product life cycle, which is why we include this as part of our service.

Our Design Team at Don Electronics will support you through the launch of your product and work with you through our Post Launch Support Cycle.

As part of our post launch support we offer:

Bug Fixes
Feature Enhancement after customer feedback
Taking care of Obsolescence and replacement parts
Ensuring approvals are still valid
Field engineer and end user support over the phone or site visits
Product Returns Management and Root Cause Analysis to enhance the product
New product design before the existing product is retired

The DonElec Group

As a family run and family owned business we fully understand that business is all about relationships. We are looking forward to working with you to see you grow and prosper as an organisation.

Engineering excellence that has stood the test of time

The Donelec Group incorporates 3 trading companies, Don Electronics Limited, Don Controls Limited and Syntel Instrumentation Limited. All three businesses compliment each other and work closely with each other to provide individual solutions for their customers and partners.

As part of the DonElec Group we have expertise across multiple industry sectors and utilise our multidisciplinary teams to bring products to market. To learn more about our history, ethos and other companies within the group click here.

Why us?

Design

Prototyping

Certification and Approvals

Manufacture and Testing

Post-Launch Support

The DonElec Group

Careers

Don Electronics

Why us?

Design

Prototyping

Certification and Approvals

Manufacture and Testing

Continued Development (Post Launch Support)

The DonElec Group

Careers

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Registered address:	The Donelec Building, Westfield Industrial Estate, Kirk Lane, Yeadon, West Yorkshire LS19 7LX
Company number:	03498051