Wilson Partner QinetiQ to feature in North America Outlook
Wilson Process Systems, a privately owned UK electronics subcontractor, has been supporting local and overseas customers for well over 40 years. Born in the late 70s from bare PCB fabrication, it has evolved into a well-established CEM.
With this consistent growth, Wilson has continued to expand its footprint into two sites covering 28,000 sqft based in Hastings, East Sussex, where joint Managing Directors, Tim and Nick Wilson, pride themselves on offering an agile and responsive service, with a company ethos of ‘right first time’ and ‘automation where possible’, which has led to proven success over many years. Wilson is also a big advocates of making ‘doing business easy’, which is reflected in its customer base ranging from Cummins, VMS and Kantar, across such industries as industrial control, communications, medical and digital signage.
Key general services include both surface-mount and automated through-hole assembly through a suite of universal equipment, whilst also offering specialist services including automated conformal coating, resin encapsulation and thermal testing where electronic systems require extra protection against ingress and the environmental conditions they reside in. Automated selected soldering is also available alongside a standard reflow process, aqueous washing and AOI (automated optical inspection).
To complement the automated portion of the business, Wilson boasts a 40+ strong team of IPC trained operators, dedicated to the second stage build process. With almost all PCBA’s requiring hand assembly in various forms, Wilson can call upon resources which capture 100 percent component coverage of both PCBA and any ‘Box Build’ system. To enhance this further, tests can be included if required from simple ‘go, no-go’ to full functional tests.With all this combined, concludes a complete selection of resources, which is invaluable to fulfill Wilson’s core competence when supporting customer needs.
It’s this combined ability to offer a full PCB assembly service that’s able to cope with dynamic demands from clients that has made Wilson Process, one of QinetiQ Target Systems’ UK partners of choice for the past 12 years. Over this time, both companies have experienced changes in technologies, challenges in material supply, and exponential demand due to global politics.The support offered by Wilson has played a key role in allowing QinetiQ to develop, manufacture and release new products where the emphasis has been on economical, ultra-reliable PCBAs.
Tim Wilson commented, “we’ve been supporting all our customers with consistent quality for over three decades, helping engineering teams with DFM (design for manufacture) to improve ‘right first time’ prototypes that lead into volume production. This is especially important when considering maximum productivity for high mix PCBAs, or boards requiring conformal coating.
We’ve also promoted collaboration between our procurement team and partner customers to establish a robust supply chain to ensure continuity whilst helping manage inventory, which over the past three years has seen multiple challenges keeping both materials and assembly flowing”.
Whether it be small batch production, urgent samples or scheduled monthly drops, full procurement or free-issue, Wilson is geared to perform.
