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Thermal Solutions Design Guide | Specifications subject to change
Custom and integrated components
Minco operates four different product lines, all coordinated in
the same facility for faster, seamless integration that can boost
your time-to-market. This makes us unique in our ability to
customize and integrate components into turnkey assemblies
and complete thermal, sensing and flex circuitry solutions. All of
our components can be designed, manufactured, and integrated
to perfectly fit your application while providing matched system
accuracy.
Disciplined NPI Process
Minco has developed a disciplined approach for up-front
engineering engagement. Our early involvement in your design
cycle enables us to take steps to identify and reduce risk, mimize
cost, and increase reliability.
• Minco’s NPI approach reduces number of iterations
• Initial upfront design and manufacturability analysis
performed at quote stage (DRC/DFM)
• Comprehensive, proactive design and process risk analysis to
ensure robustness (DFMEA/PFMEA) and minimize delays
Custom solutions
Minco’s customized products provide an affordable solution to
meet your exact specifications. We work diligently to build our
products with the greatest efficiency, quality, and accuracy to
meet your critical standards and ensure ROI.
Minco can customize all of our products to perfectly fit your
application.
Thermofoil Heaters
• Irregular shapes, size and holes for a precise fit
• Single or dual element for critical redundancy and rapid heat
transfer
• Profiled and multi-zone heaters to put the heat exactly
where you need it
• Leadwire, flex circuit or solder pad terminations for easy
integration into your assembly
Sensors and instruments
• RTD and thermistor elements to match any TCR (temperature
coefficient of resistance) curve
• A variety a materials and machining options available to
provide critical thermal response in your application
• Leadwire and cable options to meet your application
parameters
• Custom transmitters, controllers, and monitors for accurate
sensing packages
Flex Circuits
• Single-layer, double-layer, multilayer and rigid-flex circuits
with high layer counts to meet your interconnection needs
• Fine lines, circuit forming and selective bonding add to
space and weight savings
• Stiffeners, pins, connectors and full turnkey electronics
packaging for efficient integration intoyour application
• Inductive communication coils can be integrated with flex
circuits to provide critical communication assemblies
Integrated solutions
All of Minco’s products – Thermofoil Heaters, Flex Circuits,
Sensors, Instruments – can be integrated into a single
component for greater efficiency. Whether it is a complete
thermal optimization system or interconnection application,
Minco’s design engineers will partner with you to ensure success.
With integrated solutions there is less work on your end, and less
that can go wrong. Our integrated assemblies truly lower your
total cost of assembly because of less front end assembly, easy
installation, and unparalleled quality and reliability.
The Minco Difference
Harness Minco’s knowledge and diverse product lines to create the perfect solution
E2E — Engineer to Engineer
Minco seeks to help our customers by
connecting our engineers with theirs.
We call this collaboration E2E.
Early engineering involvement:
Quality, robust designs are best
achieved when the engineering
collaboration begins early in the
design cycle. Engineering consultation can be invaluable
early in the design process. Minco wants to make your
access to engineering tools and expertise as convenient
as possible.
Minco engineer review: Our engineers will review your
quote or order documentation and data to determine
if changes are needed for manufacturability. If needed,
we will discuss these issues with you to our mutual
agreement before construction begins.
Design services: Concept to finish or problem specific,
design engineers are available to assist our customers.
Contact Minco to begin working with the design engineer
most able to help you with your specific design needs.
Contact Minco today to learn how our engineers can help
with your next project,.
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Selecting a Minco Heater ...............................................4