Design Engineering

Jabil Design Engineering

Jabil's Design Engineering team is the driving force behind every product created for customers, offering a comprehensive array of value-added design and engineering services customized to customer's needs.

Design Engineering is the foundation of Jabil's commitment to the total product life cycle; from beginning to end, Jabil offers a comprehensive range of services to meet customers' needs at every stage of the design process. Jabil's experienced, innovative, and passionate employees have the agility and expertise to support design engagements across a wide spectrum, covering a broad range of technical competencies. Whatever the customer's needs, Jabil is uniquely positioned to provide a world class customer service experience that will exceed all expectations.

Jabil works with a diverse portfolio of industry leaders, operating as a seamless extension of their teams, enhancing existing work units while leveraging our talented and innovative design team to craft the precise solution for customers' specific needs. Broad capabilities in a vast array of product areas and deep competencies in specific product areas allow Jabil to deliver truly innovative product designs with a swift time-to-market. Jabil has deep product expertise designing in the following areas: Healthcare & Instrumentation, Computing & Storage, Industrial & Clean Technology, Digital Home & Office and Mobility.

By offering flexible and individualized engagements, Jabil will customize a design strategy to fit specific customer needs and successfully bring customer products to market. From a la carte services to full turnkey solutions, Jabil will work to create a design plan tailored to individual customer needs, providing the highest quality product coupled with the best total cost solution.


Industry Specific Design Engineering Experience

Computing & Storage

Jabil has the experience to design exactly what customers need, with a swift time to market and the best total cost solution. Utilizing our deep product competencies in computing and storage, Jabil designs best-in-class products, such as motherboards, interconnects, and enterprise enclosures. Jabil offers complete end-to-end design solutions for customer's computing and storage needs. The following key capabilities make Jabil's Computing and Storage team the ideal choice to design the solution to computing and storage needs.

Computing & Storage Capabilities

Product Architecture

  • Intel and AMD System Architecture
  • Storage Architecture
  • Server Architecture
  • Cloud Architecture
  • Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ATCA)
  • Networking Architecture
  • Blade Architecture
    1. Power
    2. Cooling
    3. Signal Integrity
    4. Power Architecture

Mechanical Design

  • Metal and Plastic Enclosures for Server, JBOD, Switch, Controller
    1. Blade Systems and Modules
    2. Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ATCA) Systems and Modules
    3. Rack Mount Solutions
  • Structural Design/ Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
  • Thermal and Airflow Design/Analysis
  • Design for Electromagnetic Compatibility
  • Tolerance Analysis
  • Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T)

Electrical Design

  • Motherboard Design (Intel, AMD-Multi-Core, Multi Socket)
  • Input/Output Module Design (Maxim, PMC, Marvel, LSI)
  • Storage
    1. iSCSI
    2. SAS/SATA, up to 12 Gbps
  • PCI Express (PCIe)
  • Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ATCA), Digital Signal Processor (DSP), Rear Transition Module (RTM)
  • Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) up to 10 Gbps
  • DDR/SDRAM/USB/IEEE 1394
  • Power Supplies
  • DC-DC Design
  • Signal Integrity Analysis – end to end SI Simulation

Product Verification Test

  • System Integration Test
  • Shock and Vibration Test
  • Regulatory and Safety Test and Certification
  • Network Equipment Building System (NEBS) Certification
  • Disk Drive Qualification

Software

  • Firmware
    1. Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S)
    2. SCSI Enclosure Services (SES)
    3. Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI)
  • BIOS Customization
  • Drivers
  • Diagnostics
  • Linux
  • Windows
  • Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS)

Design for Manufacturing (DFM)

  • Design for Excellence (DFx) – Manufacturing, Reliability, Test
  • Manufacturing Test Development

Networking

  • Ethernet Storage Switch/Bypass
  • Ethernet 10/100/1000

CPU Compute Interface

  • Serial Rapid IO (SRIO)
  • Hypertransport
  • Quick Path Interconnect (QPI)
  • Direct Media Interface (DMI)

Data Interface Bus

  • Storage
  • Network
  • SAS/SATA, up to 12 Gbps
  • Serial Peripheral Interfaces
  • Ethernet Protocols:
    1. iSCSI, up to 10 Gbps
    2. Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), up to 10 Gbps
    3. Infiniband, up to Gen3
    4. Fiber Optic Connector, up to 16 Gbps

Data Storage

  • SD Cards
  • NAND Storage
  • Solid State Drives (SSD)
  • Multi-Disk RAID Arrays (RBOD)
  • High Density Storage
  • Storage Bridge Bay (SBB)

Digital Home

Jabil's deep competency in the areas of mechanical, electrical and software engineering allows the company to design solutions for digital living needs.

Digital Home Capabilities

Mechanical Enclosures

  • Metal Cabinets with Plastic Bezels

Content Security

  • Nagra
  • NDS
  • Irdeto
  • Latens
  • Viaccess
  • Conax
  • Digital Rights Management (DRM)

Electronics Design

  • Product Architecture
  • Multiple Digital Broadcasting Video Systems Front-End
    1. Terrestrial: DVB-T, ISDB-T, ATSC
    2. Cable: DVBT-C, ATSC
    3. Satellite: DVBT-S & DVBT-S2
  • Home Networking- Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA), Home Phoneline Networking Alliance (HPNA), DOCSIS®
  • Wireless Communications (WiFi, WiMax, ZigBee)
  • Wired Communications- USB, IEEE 1394, Serial, Ethernet 10/100/1000
  • Analog Video
    1. VGA, XGA
    2. Composite
    3. YPbPr
  • Digital Video
    1. HDMI 1.3/1.4
    2. DVI

Processors, Memory, & Logic

  • Microcontrollers
  • System-on-Chip (SoCs)
    1. MStar
    2. STMicro
    3. BCM
    4. Renesas
  • DDR3
  • Digital Signal Processors (DSP)
  • Multimedia/Image Processing

Data Interface Bus

  • SATA 1.3, 3 Gbps
  • External SATA (eSATA)
  • Serial Peripheral Interfaces (SPIs)
  • Inter-Integrated Circuits (I2C)
  • Secure Digital Input Output (SDIO)
  • PCI, PCI-Express (PCI-E)

Data Storage

  • SD Card
  • NAND Storage
  • Hard Disk Drive
  • Solid State Drive (SSD)
  • Network Attached Storage (NAS) Core Platform

Software

  • Firmware
  • BIOS Customization
  • Drivers
  • Diagnostics
  • User Interface
  • Programmable Logic
  • Linux
  • Android
  • Windows
  • Java
  • Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS)
  • Social Networking Integrations
  • Flash-based Integrations
  • HL DSW

Healthcare & Instrumentation

As a design leader in the area of healthcare, Jabil partners with top-tier medical and pharmaceutical companies to design and optimize a wide array of healthcare products. By operating as an extension of customer's teams, Jabil's experienced and passionate design team is able to customize a flexible and individualized design plan to meet customer's needs. From single use devices to patient bedside therapy equipment, Jabil is a trusted name that brings innovative products to market for customers. Jabil's Healthcare and Instrumentation team offers comprehensive array of capabilities, making the company the ideal choice for this marketplace:

Healthcare & Instrumentation Capabilities

Mechanical Enclosures

  • Handheld and On-Body Devices
  • Patient Bedside and Point-of-Care Devices
  • Analytical Lab and Imaging Equipment

Precision Mechanics

  • Complex Mechanisms
  • Miniaturization
  • Motor Controls
  • Fluidics and Microfluidics
  • Pneumatics and Hydraulics
  • Pumps and Valves

Precision Optics

  • Near-to-Eye Systems
  • Projection Systems
  • Camera Module Systems
  • LED & Lighting Systems
  • Laser Scanning Systems
  • Multi-Wavelength Detection and Spectroscopy

Medical Process Adherence

  • Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and European Medicines Agency (EMA)
  • Medical Devices Directive (MDD) and In Vitro Diagnostics Directive (IVDD)
  • ISO 13485
  • ISO 14971
  • IEC 62304
  • IEC 62366

Wireless Communications

  • WiFi
  • Bluetooth
  • GPS
  • ZigBee
  • Cellular
  • Smartphone Integration

Power Supply

  • Smart Battery Management
  • Power Supplies

Human Interface and Control Panels

  • Capacitive, Resistive and Acoustic Touchscreens
  • LCD and Organic LED (OLED) Displays
  • International Protection (IPX4) Dust and Liquid Intrusion
  • Rubber and Tactile Buttons

Analog Sensor Integration

  • Biochemistry and Oxygen Sensors
  • Accelerometer and Force sensors
  • Flow Rate and Pressure Sensors
  • Connectivity and Temperature Sensors

Software

  • Firmware
  • BIOS Customization
  • Drivers
  • Diagnostics
  • Programmable Logic
  • User Interface
  • Applications

Industrial and Clean Technology

Jabil is dedicated to providing effective and efficient design solutions to customers in the industrial and clean technology sectors. By leveraging deep competencies in industrial controls and power electronics, Jabil is able to help customers deliver innovative products swiftly. Expertise in the industrial and clean technology sectors ensures that engagements with Jabil receive best-in-class design solutions. Top-tier industrial and clean technology firms engage Jabil to design solutions for all their industrial control and power solutions needs.

Industrial and Clean Technology Capabilities

Wireless Communications

  • Bluetooth
  • WiFi
  • WiMax
  • ZigBee
  • GPS
  • Antenna
  • Dedicated 2.4 GHz

Power Architectures

  • Battery Management
  • Motor Controls
  • LED Lighting

Human Interfaces & Touchscreens

  • LCD and Organic LED (OLED) Displays
  • Capacitive and Resistive Touchscreens
  • Dust & Liquid Intrusion
  • Rubber, Tactile and Touch Sensitive Buttons

Mechanical Enclosures

  • Ruggedized Plastic Enclosures
  • Small Metal Enclosures
  • Portable Plastic and Metal Enclosures
  • Thermal Design
  • Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Design

Software

  • User Interfaces
  • Drivers

Power Supply/Conversion

  • DC to DC
  • DC to AC
  • AC to AC
  • AC to DC

Power Engineering Applications

  • Motor Controls/Drives
  • Battery Management
  • Plug-In Electric Hybrid Vehicle (PHEV) Chargers
  • Grid Stability
  • Load Shifting/Energy Demand Management
  • Backup and Off-Grid Power Solutions

Mobility

Working with the top names in the industry, Jabil offers best-in-class smartphone and mobile accessory design solutions. Dedicated and experienced design teams offer the following key technical capabilities:

Mobility Capabilities

Mechanical Design/Industrial Design Support

  • Plastic and Metal Module Housings
  • Handheld Plastic Enclosures
  • Small Metal Enclosures
  • Metal & Plastic Chassis/Frames

Human Interfaces & Touchscreens

  • LCD Displays
  • Capacitive and Resistant Touchscreens
  • LED Indicators
  • Silicone and Metal Keymats

Wireless Communications

  • Bluetooth
  • WiFi (802.11x)
  • Cellular
  • GSM/GPRS/EDGE
  • CMDA/EV-DO
  • GPS
  • Antenna

Processors, Memory, & Logic

  • Multimedia/Image Processing
  • Microcontrollers
  • System-on-Chip (SoCs)

Tool & Fixture Design

  • Design for Precision Tooling
  • Design for Moldflow
  • Design for Thin Wall Molding Structures
  • Design for Insert and Double Shot Molding

Plastic Injection Molding & Metal Casting

  • Multi-Shot Molding
  • Insert Molding
  • Leather Over-molding
  • In-Mold Film/In-Mold Decoration
  • Aluminum/Zinc Die Casting
  • Thixo-Molding
  • Glass/Carbon Fiber, Leather/Fabric, and Wood Overmolding
  • Metal Insert and Glass Insert –Molding
  • Micro-Molding
  • Silicone Molding/Liquid Silicone Rubber
  • Single Shot, Multi-Shot and Insert Molding
  • Metal Stamping

Decorative Metals/Plastics

  • Painting
  • Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD)
  • 2D/3D Laser Etching
  • Chemical Etching
  • Ink Filling
  • Plating
  • Anodizing
  • Digital Printing

Decorative Coating Technologies

  • Plastic, Glass and Wood Anti-Stain Coating
  • Precision Machining- CNC

Precision Optics

  • Glass and Plastic Lenses
  • Optical coatings
  • Optical Assembly Technologies

Printers

From automatic document feeders to laser, inkjet and thermal print systems; Jabil partners with customers to design best-in-class printer and motion control solutions.

Printers Capabilities

Human Interfaces and Touchscreens

  • 7 Segment Displays
  • LCD Displays
  • Touch Screen

Mechanical Engineering

  • Complex Kinematic Mechanisms
  • Paper Path Design
  • Cartridge/Printer Interaction
  • Thermal Transfer
  • Plastic and Metal Hinges
  • Drive Train Systems
  • Motor Controls
  • Gear Design
  • Actuators and Sensors
  • Foam/Rubber Materials

Print Systems

  • Thermal
  • Inkjet
  • Laser/LED Xerographics
  • Portable Print Stations

Multifunction Printing Modules

  • Feed Trays/Bypass Trays
  • Scanner Subassemblies
    1. CIS/LED Arrays
    2. Charge Coupled Device (CCD)
  • Auto Document Feeder Subassemblies

Multifunction Printer Integration

  • Device Controllers
  • Image Processes
  • Image Quality Analysis Suites

Motion Control

  • CAD/CAM/CAE Analysis
  • Transmission Design
  • Driving System
  • Motion Stability
  • Sensor Technology
  • Dynamic Control Simulation
  • DC Motor/Stepping Motor

Point-of-Sale

Point-of-Sale Capabilities

Electronics

  • Motherboards and Controllers
  • Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs)

Wireless Communications

  • Bluetooth
  • WiFi
  • WiMax
  • ZigBee
  • Cellular
  • Antenna
  • GSM/GPRS

Wired Communications

  • USB
  • Serial
  • IEEE 1394
  • Networking 10/100/1000

Data Storage

  • SD Cards
  • NAND Storage
  • Hard Disk Drive
  • Solid State Drives (SSD)

Data Bus

  • Fibre Channel (1, 2, 4, 8 Gbps)
  • PCI, PCI-Extended (PCI-X), PCI-Express (PCIe)
  • SATA 1.3, 3 Gbps
  • Serial Peripheral Interfaces (SPIs)
  • Inter-Integrated Circuits (I2C)
  • Secure Digital Input Output (SDIO)

Human Interface and Control Panels

  • LCD and Organic LED (OLED) Displays
  • Resistive Touchscreens
  • LED Indicators
  • Rubber and Tactile Buttons

Processors, Memory, & Logic

  • System-on-Chips (SoCs)
  • DDR
  • Complex Programmable Logic Devices (CPLDs)
  • Digital Signal Processors (DSPs)

Software

  • Embedded
  • Firmware/Assembly
  • BIOS Customization
  • Drivers
  • Diagnostics
  • Linux
  • Android
  • Windows
  • Java
  • Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS)
  • User Interface

Mechanical Enclosures

  • Metal Module Housings
  • Handheld Plastic Enclosures
  • Small Metal Enclosures
  • Portable Plastic and Metal Enclosures
  • Metal & Plastic Chassis/Frames
  • Structural Design
  • Thermal Design

 

World-Class Design Engineering Capabilities

Value Engineering

To support our customer's design requirements, Jabil has developed a full suite of Value Analysis and Value Engineering (VAVE) services aimed at design optimization and cost reduction. The VAVE team works with customers from inception through post-release review, offering innovative solutions to streamline existing designs. From component engineering to product teardown, Jabil's Value Engineering team provides customers with optimized design concepts resulting in better costs and increased efficiency. Jabil offers its customers the benefit of 40 years best-in-class experience, ensuring a streamlined design that will not only succeed in the marketplace, but also excel.

Value Engineering Capabilities

Cost Reduction Analysis

    • Bill of Material Analysis
    • Electrical Analysis
    • Mechanical Analysis
    • Fab Analysis

Component Engineering

    • Approved Vendor List (AVL) Expansion
    • Jabil Strategic Cross-Vendor Bill of Material (BOM) Analysis
    • Spend Leverage Analysis
    • Restriction of Hazardous Materials / Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (RoHS/WEEE) Compliance
    • Obsolescence Resolution
    • Life Cycle / Risk Analysis

Design for Excellence Review & Analysis

    • Printed Circuit Board Assembly Analysis
    • Design for Manufacturing
    • Fab Design for Manufacturing
    • Mechanical Design for Assembly
    • Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) Analysis 

Engineering New Product Introduction Support

    • Early Supplier Involvement
    • Proto Build Support
    • Manufacturing Defect Analysis

Product Teardown

    • Manufacturing Assembly Analysis
    • Maynard Operations Sequence Technique (MOST) Analysis
    • Boothroyd Dewhurst Techniques
    • Competitive Comparisons
    • Reverse Engineering

Electrical Engineering

Jabil prides itself on skill and expertise in Electrical Engineering. Design teams consists of the best and brightest electrical engineers, and leverages deep competency in this field when designing products across a broad range of industries such as computing and storage, industrial controls and mobility. Jabil's commitment to excellence in electrical engineering means customers receive best-in-class customer service when Jabil designs solutions for specific needs. Jabil offers the following in key technical capabilities.

Electrical Engineering Capabilities
  • Analog/Digital/High Speed Digital
  • Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)
  • Complex Programmable Logic Devices (CPLDs)
  • USB, IEEE 1394, Low Voltage Differential Signaling (LVDS)
  • PCI, PCI Extended (PCI-X), DDR SDRAM
  • Multipoint Control Unit (MCU), Digital Signal Processor (DSP) Embedded System
  • Signal Processing
  • Power Supply
  • ZigBee
  • Electrical Verification Test (EVT), Design Verification Test (DVT), Circuit Board Bring Up/Debug
  • Signal and Power Integrity Testing
  • System Integration
  • Electrical System Design
  • Electronic Components Selection
  • Schematic Design And Layout
  • Bill of Material (BOM) Creation and Release
  • Circuit Board Building Support
  • Functional Testing
  • System Verification
  • Pilot Support
  • Schematic Capture

Mechanical Engineering

Metal and plastic enclosures, tooling, thermal architecture – Jabil mechanical engineers offer design solutions in these areas and many more. Innovative and experienced mechanical engineers utilize deep competencies in the following core areas to create solutions for customer's design needs.

Mechanical Engineering Capabilities

Mechanical Design

  • Enclosures from Miniature to Massive
    1. Sheet Metal
    2. Cast (Metal and Plastic)
    3. Precision Mechanics and Mechatronics
  • 3D Modeling
  • Thermal, Acoustic Analysis
  • Structural Analysis
  • Prototyping

Manufacturing Readiness

    • Tooling Management
    • Tooling Cost / Risk Analysis
    • Vendor Evaluation and Selection

Industrial Design

    • Ergonomics
    • Concept Generation
    • Graphics Generation

Thermal Design

    • Thermal Architecture
    • Thermal Analysis, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Modeling
    • Board Level, Chip Level, Package Level Thermal Design
    • Heat sink Design, Selection and Customization
    • Detailed Comprehensive Thermal Test Plan and Report

Software Engineering

At Jabil, innovative and experienced software engineers have deep product knowledge in areas such as BIOS customization and system architecture. Whatever customer's software design needs, Jabil can create personalized solutions to deliver world-class products at the best total cost. Jabil offers the following key technical capabilities.

Software Engineering Capabilities
  • Embedded Control
  • Hardware Testing Code
  • BIOS Customization
  • Real Time Operating System (RTOS) Integration
    1. CE.Net, Symbian, Embedded Linux, Embedded Windows, Android
  • Drivers & Applications
  • Industry Standard Chipsets
  • High Level Languages (C, C++, Visual C++, VB)
  • Low Level Firmware (Assembly)
  • Requirements Analysis
  • Concept Design
  • System Architecture
  • Board Support Package (BSP) and Driver Development
  • Embedded Application Development
  • User Interface Design
  • Protocol Implementation
  • Software Verification Test
  • Diagnostics Software Design

 

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