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New
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TL Industries now has new equipment that allows us to manufacture
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Facility
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TL Industries has expanded our main manufacturing site and
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ENGINEERING SERVICES
TL Industries' Engineering Group is capable of performing all phases
of the engineering process. This may be as simple as a single board
design or as complex as a complete system requiring metal enclosures,
user interface controls, PCB layout, software design and system assembly.
The Engineering Group can start at any point in the project but the
greatest benefit will be realized if the engineering group is involved
early in the design phase.
Prototype
Assessment
System
Level Development
PCB
Design
Software
Test
Solutions
Mechanical
Microprocessor Based Designs
Digital Desings
Network Design
Analog Design
Schematic Capture and PC Board Designs
Enclosure and Packaging Designs
Manufacturing
Reverse and Re-Engineering
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- Manufacturing Evaluation
- Cost Evalutation
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Prototypes developed by the customer or manufactured by TL's
engineering services are evaluated and value engineered for the
customer to reduce the costs and improve quality. TL's manufacturing
control systems insures that prototype specifications are adhered
to and changes are reviewed and approved by the customer before
they are implemented. The result is a product ready for volume
manufacturing that will have consistent results and the lowest
manufacturing costs.
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- Design from Concept
- Solutions for Industrial Applications
- Regulatory Expertise to Acquire Necessary Approval for FCC,
UL, CSA,
TUV, etc.
- Design for Manufacture (DFM)
and Design for Assembly (DFA)
- Hardware Development Concurrent with Software Development
- Value Engineering
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TL Industries' Engineering Group will work closely with your
engineers, managers, production and marketing departments to develop
the product to your specifications while providing necessary input
to maintain Design For Excellence (DFX)
objectives.
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- Design for Manufacture (DFM)
and Design for Assembly (DFA)
- Single Layer/Multi Layer
- SMT
- DeviceNet, VME Bus, STD Bus
- Schematic Capture and Library Creation
- High-Speed Digital
- Analog Design and Simulation
- RF Design
- Optical Design
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Schematic design to circuit board layout design culminating with
circuit board artwork ready for circuit board fabrication allows
TL Industries to provide the customer with full service circuit
board design. From simple single sided boards to complex multiplayer
boards, TL Industries’ design services are ready to serve the
customer’s needs.
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- Windows/Windows CE
- Communications Protocols
- Closed-Loop Controls
- 8, 16 and 32 Bit Assembler Code
- Motorola, Intel, ARM etc. CPU Core
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TL Industries' software development team is capable of creating
necessary software for your products from board level Assembly
code to personal computer applications in both the DOS and Windows
environments.
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- In-House Development
- Test Fixture Development
- In-Circuit Test
- Functional Test
- On Board Self-Test and Diagnostic Firmware
- Environmental Testing
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necessary test procedures, software, PC applications and fixtures
necessary to test the products we design or manufacture.
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- Industrial Enclosure
- Integration with PCB Design
- Operator Interface Design
- Thermal Management
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Customers requiring industrial electronic enclosure design can
turn to TL Industries’ design services for all their enclosure
requirements. From simple boxes to sophisticated modular designs
incorporating all necessary wiring and interface hardware, TL
Industries’ engineering services have the ability to design the
customer’s enclosure to conform to the major certification programs.
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Microprocessor based designs provide performance and flexibility for new or evolving products, from simple logic devices to complicated real time multitasking systems. TL is proficient with microprocessors from Motorola, Microchip, and Texas Instruments, from very small micros to high performance CISPs and DSPs with integrated peripherals. Our hardware and software engineers work with you to meet cost and performance requirements. We have considerable experience designing products that work in harsh electrical environments for industrial process control, extracting meaningful control inputs from a variety of sensors, and have worked with a variety of local area networks. We have also designed commercial and consumer products requiring performance with significant cost constraints.
Our engineers augment the capabilities of your staff, using the power of microcomputers and high performance electronics to leverage your knowledge of your process. We offer the benefit of "cross pollination" from experience in a variety of industries. You maintain control of your areas of core competence, and have the benefit of a staff of electronics people who are there when you need them.
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TL Industries' has been in the digital circuit design business since its inception, before the advent of microcomputers. When cost is a serious constraint, the product is simple and well defined, and doesn't require the flexibility of the micro, a digital logic solution can be provided. Although most current digital designs extend the capabilities of microprocessors, TL can provide designs for products based on standard digital logic families and programmable logic devices.
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TL Industries' has software and hardware experience with proprietary and standard networks in both industrial and commercial applications. We have developed hardware and software for robust proprietary local area networks to work in harsh industrial environments, and we have designed systems that conform to network standards of others, including Allen Bradley Device Net, Modbus, and other field I/O busses, and telecommunications using HDLC and Eithernet. We have built systems using TCPIP providing internet access to our customer's systems.
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One of TL's strong suites is making digital and analog circuits that work together for control and measurement applications. Our analog expertise lies in the areas of sensor interfaces, and data acquisition. We have worked with a variety of sensors including some very unusual ones in specialty applications. We have also made systems for high speed, high precision, and high accuracy measurements.
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TL offers schematic capture and PC board layout as a stand alone service or with other design services. We use tools from Orcad, and offer single sided, double sided, multi-layer, through hole, smt, and mixed technology designs. Our circuit board design staff has considerable experience, and layouts concurrently meet size, cost, yield, safety, and EMC requirements. PC documentation packages include gerber format copper, silk screen, and solder mask, nc drill, BOM, and schematics. We can provide assembly drawings compatible with a variety of mechanical CAD formats. Our board layout staff interfaces with circuit designers, packaging designers, and manufacturing engineers to provide high electrical performance, and good production yield.
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As part of a complete package solution to electronic control needs, TL offers services for enclosure design. From rugged NEMA standard industrial cabinets to appealing commercial enclosures, we can provide a good looking, manufacturable housing for your electronics. TL has a precision sheet metal fabrication subsidiary, and understands how to design and build electronic enclosures. We also utilize cost effective, commercial off the shelf enclosures when they can be adapted to meet the requirements.
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TL Industries' provides electronic manufacturing services, including parts procurement, assembly, and testing. We can build through-hole, SMT, and mixed technology circuit boards. We have and use automated assembly equipment effectively for medium volume production, and can support limited volume, and production of evolving products. We have formal quality systems which conform to the requirements of ISO-9000. We also do mechanical assembly and wiring.
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Things change fast in the electronics industry, and then there are obsolescence issues, mergers, acquisitions, and discontinuations of other sorts. We have some experience dealing with "dinosaur bones" ... We have updated old designs from other sources to replace obsolete parts, or to use more modern technology. We have successfully resurrected and replicated products when the original manufacturer was no longer willing or able to do so. (These projects are considered subject to patent, copyright and IP considerations.)
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Engineering
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