Electronic Product Development
One team takes your product from a requirement document to a manufacturable design: schematic and PCB, firmware, enclosure, verification, certification support and the documentation your factory needs. Every phase ends with a review you sign, so you always know what you have paid for and what comes next.
What We Deliver
What does end-to-end electronic product development actually include?
Everything between the idea and the first production batch, in one gated plan. Six stages, gated by four formal reviews you sign, with acceptance criteria taken from your requirement document rather than from what the design happens to do. Firmware and enclosure run in parallel with the hardware, and you can buy the whole programme or only the stages you are missing.
How a programme runs, stage by stage
Architecture and feasibility
Requirements settled and the architecture chosen, with the interfaces, power and heat agreed in writing before detailed design starts.
Schematic and PCB layout
Schematic, then layout, each through a formal review and a rework step, checked against the factory you intend to use.
Firmware and enclosure
Firmware built on vendor evaluation kits and the enclosure modelled around the board while it is in layout, so bring-up starts the day boards arrive.
Prototype and bring-up
A small batch fabricated and assembled, brought up on the bench, and every fault found and fixed before formal testing is allowed to start.
Verification and EMC
Verification against your requirement, EMC pre-compliance at an accredited laboratory, then a pilot batch under the production test procedure.
Design transfer
The manufacturing package walked through with your factory, and the first production run supported by the people who designed it.
Documentation runs alongside every stage rather than being assembled at the end. That is the same structure every one of our statements of work is built on, so what you read here is what you would sign.
What you receive during the programme
- A signed hardware and software interface control document, an accepted power budget with its worst-case envelope, and a thermal feasibility study, all before detailed design starts
- Schematic, layout and mechanical source files, with the intellectual property yours from the first day
- Firmware source, the build environment and the release procedure
- A design for manufacture report written against the fabricator and assembler you intend to use
- Verification results and a defect log with every finding, its owner and how it was closed
What you receive at handover
- A manufacturing package your factory can quote from: fabrication files, bill of materials and assembly drawings
- A production test procedure written by us and proved on the pilot batch
- Firmware release notes and the signed acceptance record for every gate
- Support through your first production run, so whatever the line finds is closed by the people who designed the product
Products We Build
Which kinds of products do you develop?
Electronics with software inside, where the hardware, the firmware and the enclosure have to be designed together. Most of our programmes fall into three groups, and many products sit across two of them.
Connected and wearable devices
Battery-powered products that sense, compute and report over BLE, Wi-Fi, cellular or LoRa. Power measured on real hardware, radios chosen for certification and range. Update paths that cannot leave a device stranded.
- Wearables and body-worn sensors
- Gateways and edge devices
- Consumer and AgriTech electronics
Industrial and automation equipment
Controllers, HMIs, panel and box PCs, protocol converters and motor drives that have to keep working when the network does not. Designed for the standards and the environment of the factory floor.
- PLC and industrial controllers
- Panel PCs and operator interfaces
- Fieldbus and industrial Ethernet
Medical and regulated devices
Active devices where patient contact, mains isolation or motor control makes the design safety-relevant. Engineered inside your quality system, with the evidence your submission needs.
- Patient-connected and therapy devices
- Surgical instrument controllers
- Connected health wearables
If your product is not on this list, tell us what it does. The method is the same; what changes is the standards it has to meet.
De-Risking
How do you stop a product programme from slipping?
By finding the expensive faults while they are still cheap. A fault caught in a schematic review costs an afternoon. The same fault caught on a fabricated board costs a re-spin, new components and a month of your schedule. That is the whole case for reviewing before anything is made, and it is why the pre-fabrication gate is the best investment in the plan.
The second half of the answer is sequencing. Firmware runs on evaluation kits while the board is being laid out. Test laboratories are booked as a planned gate, not found in a hurry. Manufacturability is reviewed before release, so the fabricator you chose can actually hold the clearances you drew.
What we check before anything is fabricated
- The schematic is checked against a written design guideline by a reviewer who did not draw it, and every finding has a named owner
- Where the product touches mains power or a patient, the electrical safety spacing is designed and reviewed against the standard your market applies
- The layout is checked against the rules of the factory you actually intend to use, so your fabricator can build it without asking you to change it
- The board is designed so your production line can test it, and so it fits its enclosure, both confirmed before fabrication
- Every board revision passes an automated design check before release, so an obvious error never reaches the factory
- We agree in writing how much power the product draws at its worst and how hot it gets, before layout starts
Design change notices are written and signed, so a hardware change and a firmware change cannot quietly disagree and cost you a board spin.
Prototype to Production
How does a prototype become a product we can manufacture?
By treating manufacturing as a design input from the first schematic, not as a handover at the end. Component choices are checked for lifecycle and second sources. Layout follows your fabricator’s real capabilities. Test points, programming headers and calibration steps are designed in so the production line can test what it builds.
Each hardware revision carries its own verification and its own EMC pre-compliance cycle, so a re-spin never silently skips re-testing. When the design is ready, you receive a transfer package your contract manufacturer can quote from, and we stay through the first production run to close whatever the line finds.
For teams manufacturing in India for US and EU markets
- Design for manufacture reviewed against Indian fabrication and assembly partners we have worked with
- Component sourcing and approved vendor lists set up for the volumes you expect
- Production test procedures written and proved on the pilot batch
- Certification support for the market you sell into, with accredited laboratory testing planned into the schedule
Quality
How do you know what you are getting at each stage?
Because every phase ends with a review you sign. Progress is gated by formal design reviews on a dated schedule: an architecture gate, a preliminary design review, a critical design review and a test readiness review. Each gate has acceptance criteria taken from your requirement document, and nobody moves to the next phase on a verbal nod.
Reviewed before anything is fabricated
Every schematic and layout goes through a documented review with named owners, and every finding is closed before release.
Signed at every gate
Acceptance criteria are written down first. You sign each gate, and the record of that sign-off is part of the deliverable.
Scope changes in writing
Anything beyond the agreed scope is quoted, signed and only then started. Nothing is absorbed silently and nothing lands on an invoice unannounced.
Tested where devices actually run
Verification is against your requirement, on real hardware, with EMC and safety testing at an accredited laboratory.
Why Pinetics
How do you verify an electronic product development company delivers?
100,000+ engineering hours delivered and counting.
Ask to see how a programme is actually run before you commit to one. Every hour here is booked to a named task, every gate closes on your signature, and every defect carries an owner and a closure. Programmes often start as a single board and grow into a whole product, and the reason clients let that happen is that nothing about the first one was invisible to them.
What we bring
- Hardware, firmware, mechanical and test engineering under one accountable programme manager
- Founder-led engineering that stays in the room for the life of the programme
- Fixed-price or time-and-materials terms, with materials and laboratory fees at actuals with your prior approval
- A statement of work that settles scope, acceptance criteria, the escalation path, who is on the team and who owns the design, before you sign it
Expertise
Founder-led engineering. Our leadership carries 20+ years in electronics and firmware, and reviews your architecture personally rather than handing it to a delivery layer.
Technology
Silicon, sensing and connectivity chosen for the product, not for our convenience. We weigh each platform against the power budget, the certification path and the product's lifetime before we recommend it.
Transparency
Named tasks, tracked defects, signed gates and a defect log you can open at any time. Nothing on your programme is invisible to you.
Common Questions
What should you ask before choosing a product development partner?
Three questions settle most of it. Does the firmware get proved before the boards exist? Are design reviews formal, with findings you can read, or a meeting nobody minuted? And at handover, does a manufacturing package go with it, or files your factory cannot quote from? We do the first two as standard, and the third is written into the contract.
You commit to the first gate, not to the whole programme. The architecture and feasibility phase produces a scoped plan with effort estimates for every later phase, so the number you agree to is built from a design, not pulled out of the air. We work on fixed-price or time-and-materials terms; materials, fabrication, laboratory fees and logistics are billed at actuals and only with your prior written approval.
Yes, from the first day. Schematic, layout, mechanical and firmware source files are yours, along with the build environment, so anyone can reproduce the product in five years. The intellectual property terms are in the statement of work before you sign it, not negotiated at handover.
Yes. We are asked to take over engineering on products that already ship as often as we are asked to design something new: sustaining engineering, cost reduction on an existing device, or revising a part that works but costs too much. The work starts with a documented review of what exists, so nothing is changed without a reason you can read.
Yes, through long-standing manufacturing partners whose facilities hold the certifications the product calls for, including ISO 13485 for medical devices. We manage the transfer to production ourselves, including manufacturing in India for products sold into the US and EU. Fabrication and assembly run under a production test procedure we write and prove on the pilot batch, and certification testing is planned into the schedule at an accredited laboratory.
Then you buy that phase. The plan is modular: architecture, hardware, firmware, mechanical, verification and design transfer are separate phases with their own acceptance criteria. Many programmes start with one phase and grow when the first gate is signed.
It depends on the product, and any partner who quotes a duration before the architecture phase is guessing. What we can promise is a dated gate schedule after the first phase, and that firmware, mechanical and hardware run in parallel rather than in sequence, which is where most schedules are won or lost.
On a named communication and escalation path written into the statement of work, with a programme manager for the full duration and formal reviews on a dated schedule. Our leadership works across India, the USA and Europe, so review meetings happen in your working hours and every decision is recorded in writing.
The shape is the same, and the evidence changes. Medical programmes run inside your ISO 13485 quality system, with design controls, IEC 62304 software lifecycle and ISO 14971 risk management woven into the same gates. Our medical device software development page describes exactly how.
Yes, and most first conversations start that way. Send yours or ask for ours.