Beat the competition to market at CES

STANLEY Engineered Fastening and a STANLEY Black & Decker company, offers more than four decades of design and manufacturing engineering expertise ranging from the first Motorola mobile phone to today’s modern electronics device form factors.

The company’s extensive engineering experience in next-gen materials, such as titanium, lightweight alloys, and plastics, will be critical in developing tomorrow’s cutting edge products from wearables, robotics, medical devices and auto electronics to mobile and home media, storage and computing and telecomms/network enclosures.

While fasteners typically cost less than 0.25% of an electronic product’s Bill of Materials, they can dramatically affect the total cost of component design, prototyping and assembly including scrap, sub-assembly rework, field returns, manufacturing yields and assembly speed. The downstream effects of sub-optimised joints are even more significant as they affect customer satisfaction, perception of quality, customer retention, as well as market share and volume.

To help electronics manufacturers optimise all of these areas, over 40 experts in electronic fastener design from STANLEY will discuss how the company’s Electronics Engineered Standards Program can cut electronic product design, prototyping, time to market, and manufacturing cost, resulting in greater market share and more profitable growth.

Electronics product manufacturers will have exclusive access to design professionals from the company’s Global Electronics group, specialists in micro-mechanical fastening solutions for consumer electronics devices, equipment and infrastructure.

Experts will also be available from the Automotive group, which specialises in electronic sensor, control unit, wire assembly and 48V technology architecture vehicle attachment. Additional specialists from View Technologies will discuss Smart Factory solutions for products focused on the IoT, the trend toward providing physical goods and operations with real-time, item-level visibility and tracking using passive RFID technology.

With STANLEY’s Electronics Engineered Standards Program, an e-catalog provides access to the industry’s leading Preferred Performance Designs for micro-mechanical components, helping to reduce prototyping timeframes, enabling use of engineering talent for innovation, and ensuring that first-time-right designs will drive market share growth.

The e-catalog of almost 300 engineered components – which provides 24-hour, real-time access to design guides and best practices as well as 3D models, 2D drawings, and animations – is designed specifically for today’s modern electronics device form factors. These components address both miniature and micro-mechanical applications including cold-formed fasteners, rivets, inserts, press nuts, and standoffs. The e-catalog also covers precision CNC, cosmetic finishes, performance coatings, micro-stampings, as well as tools and automation systems.

The Electronics Engineered Standards Program also helps to optimise electronics assemblies for high first-time manufacturing yields and total cost savings, with rapid prototyping and extensive testing services available. An online Try it, Test it, Customise it portal engages a global applications engineering team to customise designs, request samples, as well as secure rapid prototypes and test support.

At CES, STANLEY will give away daily prizes including MLB tickets, signed FC Barcelona and Liverpool shirts, as well as a grand prize, an Engineered Standards Lab kit, valued at $5,000, to a recognised electronics company design lab.

The company will also display a Wounded Warrior signature wall, where attendees who donate will pick a free gift from one of STANLEY’s CribMaster industrial product vending machines. STANLEY Engineered Fastening can be found at CES 2016 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, South Hall 2 - MP25650.