Design & Manufacturing

Design Capabilities

PFK keeps design at the core of its business. Everything is done in-house by a dedicated team, which means that the company can produce products specifically to meet customer requirements, rather than relying on generic solutions.This is key to the company’s culture of innovation, and allows it to maintain its market leadership.

PFK’s expertise is focussed around the three broad areas of Vehicle Security Systems, Telematics and Interlocks (Autowatch Alcolock). The focus on design is complemented by a state of the art production facility, which means PFK can take seamlessly take projects from concept through to final production.

Manufacturing

PFK makes use of a state of the art manufacturing facility, to produce products that conform to the highest standards. The manufacturing model at PFK is based on complementing automated technology with a manual production component. This allows the company to cost-effectively produce large and small runs of products by adjusting the balance of the two accordingly.

The Surface Mount Device (SMD) production is fully automated, using screen printers, robotic pick-and-place SMD machines, reflow ovens and optical inspection. The thru-hole components are manually inserted and all testing is done via PC based automated test equipment. Currently, the SMD placing capacity is at 70 000 components per hour.