Arrow Technical Services Ltd provide a full product design service. We have a unique project management system which minimises risks and keeps the client informed throughout the design process. For details of our quality control process, click here.

Complex projects are broken down into smaller, more easily managed phases whcih are all charged for and controlled separately. All our work is underpinned by clear, fixed price contracts.

Our core skills are our electronics and software design capability which is complimented by advanced solid modelling and mechanical design to provide a comprehensive product design service. We also undertake PC software applications programming in Visual C and Visual Basic.

We follow up our electronic design services by offering a fully managed manufacturing service for any of the products we have designed. Conventional and surface mount PCB assemblies are built and tested before going on to our final product assembly operation. All our manufacturing operations are backed up with the technical support facilities of our design department.

Specific technology with which we have extensive experience includes:-

  • Microchip PIC microcontrollers - all families - programmed in assembler and C
  • Intel ARM PXA-255 processors - including embedded Win-CE development environments
  • Lattice and Xilinx FPGA's programmed using VHDL
  • Analog Devices SHARC DSP processor family

In addition we offer PCB design, analogue electronics, digital electronics, wireless-communications, data-logging, bespoke instrumentation, embedded software and testing for EMC compliance and CE-Marking.

Our services span from design and development through to full scale production, providing our clients with anything from an extension of their existing design team, or a specific skill through to a complete one-stop-product development-shop. Complimenting our design of new products for clients, we also provide training and support to help transfer the new technology associated with the project so our clients are not tied or dependant upon us after the new product is released.

Project Management
Using our own quality procedures or adapting our style to fit within yours, we can lead you through Concept Development, Engineering Design, Prototype Build, Testing and Design for Volume Manufacture. Our proven procedures minimise your technical risk whilst keeping you involved at every stage. Our methods are also available to help you manage your own projects or to train your staff how to use our project management techniques.

Design Service

The design skills of our specialist engineers include Analogue Electronics, Micro-Electronics, Software, Mechanical, Production Engineering, Quality Control and Designing to Meet Standards. All our specialist engineers have years of experience in different manufacturing sectors and this is brought to bear when we handle your project. In addition to large complex projects, we also manage small parts of larger projects such as PCB layout design or EMC Testing.

Modern Facility
Our custom built laboratory and production facilities are located in the centre of Sheffield affording us easy access to the majority of the British Isles within a couple of hours travelling time. We employ the latest Internet based communications to reduce the effect of distance and service clients in Europe, Scandinavia and North America. Using the latest Computer Aided Design to Manufacture technology we can speed your ideas into the market place much faster than previously thought possible using traditional methods.

Manufacturing
At the request of our clients, we have extended our services and introduced electronic assembly and test facilities. Manufacturing to IPC levels 1, 2, & 3, we now offer a full drawing-board to manufacture capability with several of our clients benefitting from us managing the technical support of their products right through to manufacture. Because we understand the intimate details of their product design, we can continue to update and refine the design after release. Keeping up with the ever changing needs of our clients' chosen markets.