OEM TECHNOLOGIES™
A Rich History of Bringing Your Ideas to Life
In 1903, The Siemon Company (then Siemon Hard Rubber Corporation) was founded on the principles of OEM, serving the telecommunications, electrical apparatus, automotive and entertainment industries by creating solutions that fit the specifications of manufacturers. Over a decade of experience, innovation, quality and reliability breath life into every product marked with the Siemon name.
Our team of Engineers and product managers collaborated throughout the years with companies such as Western Electric (today AT&T) in developing the three-pole block, therefore blazing the path for the eventual telecommunications trajectory Siemon is on to this day. With over 400 patents held, and the unique ability to have vertical control over the entire manufacturing process, Siemon makes the ideal partner to bring solutions to your telecom challenges.
The OEM Technologies Foundation
Dive deeper into the core capabilities that make Siemon Company the ideal partner for your Original Equipment Manufacturing Needs.
Research and Development Capabilities
With more than 400 patents related to network cabling, Siemon Labs invests heavily in research, development and its manufacturing capabilities, underlying Siemon’s long-standing commitment to its customers and the industry.
Our Product Development Engineers and R&D Labs combine state-of-the-art engineering equipment and prototyping capabilities with years of experience, to lead the industry in the development of innovative high speed connectivity solutions. These same experts and resources are aligned to work one-on-one with our customers to solve their unique connectivity challenges.
Our experienced engineers use cutting-edge software to make all client designs their most effective and highest quality possible:
- PCB Design
- Finite Element Analysis
- AutoCad
- Pro/Engineer
Engineering Capabilities
Siemon engineers use the most advanced technological tools, resources and industry standards as a basis for new product development, which ensures the highest quality and performance. When Siemon engineers design a new product, they do so knowing that the individual components required can be manufactured to the most exacting standards.
Siemon works hard to understand our customers’ needs today; anticipate their needs for the future and then develop the best possible solutions for both. We pride ourselves on our on-time deliveries and near perfect fill rates. It is our goal to exceed our customers’ expectations – every day.
Although the methods for ensuring quality have changed since 1903, Siemon’s approach has not. Vertically integrated from the inspection of raw materials to the testing of assembled products, Siemon tightly controls every step in the manufacturing process.
Siemon’s high-precision plastic molding and metal stamping and forming facilities feed a highly-automated assembly operation in a model of integrated efficiency. Siemon engineers and manufacturing experts work closely with assembly teams to ensure that quality and reliability are fully integrated into every Siemon component and assembled product.
With more than 400 patents, Siemon continually reinvests in itself, building innovation and stability for tomorrow.
Product Development Process
To ensure that our clients requirements are translated into exact product specifications, our product engineers will engage with them through every process phase.
New Product Design and Development Process
The design and development process for new product development is divided into 5 stages. Stage gate reviews are conducted at the end of each stage to evaluate the project status and confirm that the NPD process is upheld.
Generally, stages should not be started until the end of the previous stage is complete. In order to keep the process flexible, however, the team may elect to start some tasks in advance of completing the current stage.
“We listen and translate our clients ideas into design specifications.”
Staging and how it works:
- Stage 0 – Scoping: Preliminary work to define the requirements and financial business case. This stage is completed by the requestor prior to project approval by the Project Alignment Committee.
- Stage 1 – Feasibility: Develop project concepts and refine the business case. Define and refine product requirements and project financial justification. Note: in simple or clearly defined projects creating the project schedule may be the only stage 1 activity. In this case, a concept review meeting should happen within 4 weeks of the start of the project and define the project schedule. This stage-gate is approved or rejected at Project Alignment Committee.
- Stage 2 – Development: Detailed development of the product design and production process.
- Stage 3 – Implementation: Bringing the design into production.
- Stage 4 – Launch: Begin promoting and selling the new product.
Project Management Capabilities
The Siemon Company, with a legacy of innovation and global presence, collaborates closely with clients to fulfill custom specifications and timelines. Our expertise spans research, development, and manufacturing, offering tailored interconnect solutions. Siemon’s world-class facilities, certified for environmental and quality management systems, specialize in a range of manufacturing processes from tooling to precision molding and metal forming. We are dedicated to continuous improvement and uphold the highest quality standards.
Siemon’s capabilities extend to developing specialized connectivity for new technologies and comprehensive cabling infrastructures for modern data centers. Our teams engage directly with clients to ensure all needs and deadlines are met. The company empowers clients to overcome business challenges and gain a competitive edge through custom-engineered solutions.
Serving major sectors like Financial Services, Web Services, Telecommunications, Industrial, Energy, and Manufacturing, Siemon is proud to offer an extensive portfolio of top-tier products, services, and solutions, all stemming from their in-house global manufacturing and distribution network.
Tooling Capabilities
Siemon’s advanced tooling capabilities create the components that feed our highly automated assembly operation. In conjunction with an industry-leading Research and Development Lab and engineering team that utilizes cutting-edge technologies such as 3D printing for rapid prototyping, our-house tooling capabilities allows the company to take their products from new ideas to finished goods, right onsite.
The entire product lifecycle occurs in one location. Enabling swift response times to client requests and innovating knowledge of what’s on the horizon.
Siemon manufactures a broad range of products from PCB level components to physical layer infrastructure products for the data center under their strict quality standards and process controls – a capability that produces the highest product quality, performance and consistency.
Injection Molding Capabilities
Siemon’s world class injection mold capabilities provide key advantages for producing high quality, innovative plastic components. Siemon has been molding plastics for over a century and has earned its reputation as a premier plastics manufacturer with the expertise and quality you can count on. Advantages of Siemon’s injection molding capabilties are:
- Low volume, single cavity molds
- High quality, high volume multi-cavity molds
- Fast turnaround time
- High quality precision plastics (ISO 9001)
- Efficient production processes
- Repeatable process control
- Commodity and Engineering grade resins
- On-site mold making and repair
- Automated 24/7 molding
With a vast offering of injection molding machines ranging from 33-385 ton presses, our facilities are capable of producing plastic products varying in sizes from very small delicate components to large robust parts. Our fully staffed and equipped tool rooms include state of the art equipment coupled with skilled craftsmen who follow strict quality control processes. These departments offer specialization in the following areas: Automation, Metal Stamping and Mold Die Tools.
CNC Sheet Metal Capabilities
Siemon’s technology continues to drive improvement and innovation in modern metal working and CNC programmed metal cutting, forming and fabrication capabilities are a much needed service in today’s marketplace. Siemon’s metal cutting capabilities allow expedited turnaround times for sheet metal prototypes and the rapid production of complex products that require precise dimensions, shapes and cuts.
Metal fabrication jobs usually start with starts collaboratively with Product Engineers and Sheetmetal Programmers including precise measurements then move to the fabrication stage and finally to the assembly of the final project.
Siemon’s primary mission is to provide consistent quality through all of the manufacturing and assembly processes. Our CAD/CAM Department utilizes computer modeling to draft parts, as well as control our CNC machines. We can then automatically inspect those parts and while in the flat verify them.
Metal Stamping Capabilities
Siemon’s capabilities for precision metal stamping has advanced through it’s own need for high quality contacts which are required to manufacture high speed network connectors. In developing it’s competencies for progressive metal stamping, it has become an integral part of Siemon’s product development and manufacturing abilities. The Siemon Company continuously reinvests in R&D, new equipment and new capabilities to keep pace with emerging technologies of the ever developing telecommunications market.
Siemon’s metal stamping service is completed through comprehensive monitoring during production, inspection of parts for quality and accuracy, and testing for accountability. Quality assurance is a top priority for us and we take all steps to ensure that our components live up to the standards we set for ourselves. Utilizing a lean manufacturing environment improves our ability to provide the highest level of service to all of our customers.
Automation
Certified in accordance with ISO 14001, Siemon’s continuous improvement of processes extends to environmental safety and protection. Our aim is to avoid practices which are detrimental to the environment in every area of our business, or to reduce them to an absolute minimum.
We manufacture exclusively on customer demand, we only expend material and energy on products which are needed. Moreover, the Siemon lean approach to production drives us to identify waste and find new and more efficient processes for the future..
By strictly applying our continuous lean improvement process, we reduce material and energy consumption to a minimum, meeting high standards of green production.
Cable Assembly Capabilities
Data has become the most valuable corporate asset. How to effectively transmit, store, access, protect and manage critical data is a challenge Siemon has conquered.
Siemon cable assemblies provide system designers an extensive selection of interconnect solutions across a wide range of industries and applications. From high-performance IO cable assemblies used in the datacenter market to Siemon’s extensive selection of fiber and copper network cabling for the Enterprise, Industrial and Telecom markets. System level integration is supported through the use of Siemon’s flexible design, test and manufacturing capabilities.
For more than a decade, we’ve remained focused on quality, service, innovation and value; providing our customers a connection they can count on.
Ranging from 10G to 800G and beyond, Siemon has the copper and fiber solutions to support all of today’s standard-based application speeds. Our broad range of cable jacket types and construction support applications in a wide variety of environments, including high flex cycling of robotics to noisy EMI of high voltage motors.
Assembly and Kitting Capabilities
Kitting has various benefits as the overall effect is to reduce the time taken in processing parts and reduce downtime for the assembly line. Siemon’s use of assembly and kitting helps reduce handling, motion time by operators and machine downtime due to parts availability.
For products that consistently ship together as a set, pre-kitted packages save time and money and make good sense. The advantage of pre-assembled kits is the streamlined kitting process where everything is assembled and completed in order. Research shows that this method eliminates workflow bottlenecks by positioning kit elements linearly to facilitate gathering and assembly.
Benefits of kitting include:
- Increases efficiencies
- Reduces waste
- Simplifies ordering process
- Reduces packaging materials
- Reduces fright cost
- Maximizes on-site efficiencies by reducing down-time and minimizes on-site assembly
- Ensures ISO factory quality and assurance
With our well-defined kitting and assembly process, Siemon’s team ensures efficiency and order accuracy and final kits are spot-checked to ensure quality as a final measure of precision. Maintaining inventoried pre-packaged kits allows Siemon’s customers to react quickly in cases of sudden increases in order demand.
Product Testing Capabilities
At Siemon, we ensure our product quality by selecting top grade raw materials. For plastic, metal and PCB components, Siemon specifies the appropriate materials and then oversees the entire manufacturing process. This degree of control provides a level of quality assurance that is impossible without total integration.
Siemon finish good products are assembled on the same campus where sub-components are manufactured from raw materials. Siemon engineers and manufacturing experts work closely with assembly teams to ensure that quality and reliability are fully integrated into each product. At each step of the manufacturing process – from inspection of raw materials to the testing of assembled products – Siemon is committed to quality. For high volume production, Siemon employs cutting-edge quality control technology, like computerized visual inspection and fully automated systems, to certify the highest product quality and reliability.
- Network Analyzers
- Time Domain Reflectometers
- Smart Scopes
- Interferometers
- Insertion Loss Meters
- Optical Switches
- Environmental Chambers
- Back Reflection Meters
- Vibration Tables
- Microscopes
Much of the precise measuring equipment used by Siemon R&D Labs is the same high end equipment used by 3rd party test labs. On-site performance verification is crucial to our R&D processes ensuring we meet or exceed industry specifications. By continually developing new methods and test procedures, quality and performance levels rise to new heights, paving the way for tomorrow’s technologies.
Engineering – Where form and function meet
Siemon works hard to understand our customers’ needs today; anticipate their needs for the future and then develop the best possible solutions for both. Siemon engineers use the most advanced technological tools, resources and industry standards as a basis for new product development, which ensures the highest quality and performance. When our engineers design a new product, they do so knowing that the individual components required can be manufactured to the most exacting standards.
Research & Development – Innovation Realized
With more than 400 patents related to network cabling, Siemon Labs invests heavily in research, development and its manufacturing capabilities, underlying Siemon’s long-standing commitment to its customers and the industry.Our Product Development Engineers and R&D Labs combine state-of-the-art engineering equipment and prototyping capabilities with years of experience, to lead the industry in the development of innovative high speed connectivity solutions. These same experts and resources are aligned to work one-on-one with our customers to solve their unique
Product Development - Process = Excellence
The Siemon company utilizes a Stage Gate process consisting of 5 stages that are instrumental in ushering new products to existence. The process allows for ideation, refinement and validation throughout each gate, ultimately resulting in a product spec’d to the exact requirements of the customer ready to launch.
Project Management – Peace of Mind
Working alongside our client project teams, we help our clients engineer custom solutions to solve business challenges while embowering them to build innovative, lasting, and competitive advantages. Siemon’s project management capabilities has help some of the largest Financial Services, Web Services, Telecommunications, Industrial, Energy and Manufacturing companies in the world develop best-in-class products.
