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ESCATEC at a glance
Everything you need to know about our company in one handy guide.
Everything you need to know about our company in one handy guide.
ESCATEC’s Design & Development services help OEM teams turn ideas or early concepts into certified, production-ready products. Our engineers work alongside your team to solve technical challenges, accelerate development, and ensure the design can be manufactured, tested and supported reliably at scale.
ESCATEC combines cross-disciplinary engineering expertise with deep manufacturing knowledge to help OEMs move from concept to production-ready products with less risk. By integrating design with manufacturing, testing, and supply chain considerations from the outset, we help ensure products transition smoothly from development into scalable production.
ESCATEC has proven experience in complex medical, industrial, transportation, IoT and other highly demanding markets, developing and industrialising a wide range of electronic and mechatronic products.
Our teams work across the full product spectrum — from PCB assemblies to complete systems — helping customers move from concept and design through to scalable manufacturing and lifecycle support.
Engineering support to improve manufacturability, testability, and production readiness.
Structured NPI to move products from development into controlled production.
Prototyping, PCBA, microelectronics, box build assembly, mechatronics, machining, and injection moulding.
Test approaches to support verification and quality control during manufacturing.
Procurement and supply chain coordination for build continuity.
Servicing, repair, lifecycle management, and logistics.
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ESCATEC provides system design, electronics hardware, embedded software, and mechanical design — so OEMs can consolidate responsibilities and reduce integration handoff risk. These capabilities are supported by prototyping and manufacturing services when you move into industrialisation.
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ESCATEC supports OEMs throughout the product lifecycle, from early concept development through to production and long-term lifecycle management. By prioritising design for manufacturability from the outset, we ensure prototypes can transition smoothly into scalable, cost-effective production.
Our engineers work closely with your team to define the product architecture and technical requirements, ensuring the design aligns with manufacturing, testing, and supply chain considerations. This integrated approach reduces development risk, shortens the path from prototype to production, and helps bring products to market faster.
ESCATEC applies a Design for eXcellence (DfX) approach to ensure manufacturing, testing, quality and supply chain considerations are addressed from the earliest stages of design. Because most lifecycle costs are committed during development, integrating these factors early helps avoid redesigns, improve reliability and reduce total cost of ownership.
DfX ensures:
ESCATEC applies five core DfX principles during development:
Design for Procurement (DfP) ensures components, materials and suppliers support long-term availability and efficient sourcing.
Design for Manufacture (DFM) ensures designs can be assembled efficiently, reliably and at the lowest practical cost.
Design for Test (DFT) ensures products include the features required for efficient manufacturing testing.
Design for Quality (DfQ) identifies and mitigates product and process risks early in development.
Design for Environment (DfE) supports environmental standards and regulatory compliance.
Each principle helps ensure designs are optimised for manufacturability, reliability and long-term supply.
Design for Procurement (DFP) ensures components, materials and suppliers are selected to support long-term availability and efficient sourcing. ESCATEC’s purchasing and engineering teams across Malaysia, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria and the UK work together to assess supply risks and identify reliable sourcing strategies early in the design process.
Effective procurement decisions during development help deliver:
Design for Manufacture (DFM) focuses on ensuring products can be assembled efficiently, reliably and at the lowest practical cost. Because most lifecycle costs are determined during design, manufacturability must be considered before production begins.
ESCATEC works with customers to align designs with the manufacturing processes that will be used downstream, evaluating factors such as component selection, tolerances and secondary processes.
DFM principles are applied across all ESCATEC manufacturing programmes, including:
This approach helps improve productivity, product reliability and time-to-market while reducing overall production cost.
Design for Test (DFT) ensures products include the features required to enable efficient and reliable manufacturing testing. As electronic assemblies become more complex, considering testability early in development is essential to ensure adequate fault coverage and diagnostics.
DfT helps deliver:
Design for Quality (DfQ) focuses on identifying and mitigating product and process risks early in development. By addressing potential issues during design, manufacturers can avoid costly redesigns or compliance challenges later in the product lifecycle.
ESCATEC applies a structured DfQ approach that includes:
This approach supports regulatory requirements such as ISO 13485, ISO 9001 and CE marking where required.
Design for Environment considers the environmental impact of materials, manufacturing processes and product lifecycle decisions. Early design choices can significantly reduce waste, emissions and supply chain impact.
ESCATEC integrates environmental considerations into development to support compliance with regulations including:
When you partner with ESCATEC on a design project, you gain access to our 40-strong engineering team based in Switzerland.
Our engineers are grouped into two highly competent teams with decades of experience between them. The first focuses on Design & Development, while the second focuses on New Product Introduction (NPI) and product lifecycle management. The mix of engineers assigned to each programme is determined by the technical and functional requirements of the project.
Each programme is led by an experienced Project Manager with expertise aligned to the product and industry sector. Our teams have delivered programmes ranging from complex medical devices developed to ISO 13485 standards to the industrialisation of products across multiple markets.
Project Managers typically focus on one programme at a time, with projects ranging from several weeks to around a year depending on scope. This ensures close coordination with customer teams and effective management of technical, manufacturing, and supply-chain risks throughout development.
Seeking to optimise a mechanical ventilation system for throat surgery, Carl Reiner GmbH partnered with ESCATEC for an end-to-end solution. By integrating cutting-edge R&D, precision engineering, and rigorous safety protocols, ESCATEC designed and manufactured an advanced system, built to ISO 13485 standards, that delivers precise oxygenation and pressure control tailored to patient needs.
Explore why the design decisions you make can have a huge impact on your product’s viability through its life cycle.
