Customer:
OEM in Automotive
Medical Device:
EV Flexible Circuit Battery Monitoring solution
Opportunity:
European Automotive Manufacturer came to Flexible Circuit Technologies seeking design support, development and delivery of an EV flexible battery management assembly solution. The design would include a full assembly including flexible PCB, 2 plastic carrier parts, 88 metal stamping/buss bars, a variety of components and full SMT services required to deliver the product as an assembly. The customer came to FCT in a rush, due to past suppliers’ unacceptable performance, given their inability to deliver quality assemblies and further being able to deliver in a timely manner.
FCT was put in a position where we needed to finalize our design and attain customer approval, while also qualifying suppliers for the plastic molding, metal stampings and assembly with 8 different flexible circuits. Further, given the customers challenging timeline, we had to accomplish all of this with a ship date of our initial prototypes within 8 weeks of attaining the initial customer order for prototypes.
Solution:
FCT is one of the premier global suppliers for EV Battery related solutions and has been designing, developing, prototyping and has various models in production dating back to 2014. Given this experience, FCT USA was able to fast track the design to attain customer approval. Further, FCT Shenzhen was able to leverage current identified suppliers for the plastic molds and metal stampings/buss bars and was able to put a rush on delivery. Also, FCT’s own flex/rigid flex/flexible heater bare board facility was able to prioritize this critical opportunity in order to produce the flex in time to meet delivery dates. FCT Shenzhen did an outstanding job of performing the full assembly while also completing initial testing and we were able to meet the ship date at the 8-week mark.
This was an outstanding effort by our senior engineering team and program management team out of our USA headquarters who was responsible for working directly with the end customer and managing all activities for this program, while also coordinating our activities with our facilities in Asia. Further, our FCT China operations did an outstanding job of prioritizing this important program which allowed us to meet the customer’s critical timeline.
Result:
FCT has one program with this customer that is in production. We have an additional program that is slated to go into production this year and are a proven source for future EV Battery management system related programs.
