KVAR Technologies has designed and manufactured embedded, microcontroller-based products for industrial use for almost 40 years. That same engineering and factory is open to you as an OEM partner — take a specification, a sketch or an ageing legacy board, and we return a designed, built, tested and serial-numbered product ready to carry your name. From one prototype to volume production, under one roof.
Most electronics needs three vendors — a design house, a PCB assembler and someone to box and test it. KVAR is all three, so nothing falls through the gap between them.
You own the idea and the market — we turn it into a manufacturable, tested product without you building a hardware team.
An embedded controller, panel or display board designed to fit inside your machine and carry your brand.
An old board that is going obsolete — we re-engineer it to modern, available parts and keep your product alive.
A proven design you need built reliably, batch after batch, with proper test and traceability.
Electronics, the code that runs on it, the box it lives in and the cloud it talks to — engineered together so the pieces actually fit.
Schematic capture and multi-layer PCB design around 8/16/32-bit microcontrollers and ARM — analog, digital, power and signal, for cost and for manufacture.
Bare-metal and RTOS firmware, device drivers, communication stacks and field-update — the intelligence inside the product.
Enclosure design and selection, panel layout, fascia, sealing and mounting — sheet-metal or moulded, indoor or field-grade.
Wired and wireless links, IIoT gateways and cloud / dashboard back-ends so the product reports and updates in the field.
Fast working prototypes, design-for-manufacture review, and a clean hand-off from sample to production.
BOMs, Gerbers, test specs, user and service manuals — the full pack, owned jointly or handed to you.
Own hardware, on the shelf. KVAR designs and sells its own products — OEE monitors, Andon, environment loggers, displays, queue systems. Partnering on OEM means you are working with a team that ships finished hardware of its own, not a design house that has never had to make a product survive a factory floor.
A design is only worth what the factory can reliably reproduce. Assembly, box build and test are in-house, so quality is ours to answer for.
Components sourced to the approved BOM, with alternates managed for availability and lifetime; kitted per batch.
Surface-mount and through-hole assembly of the boards — from prototype quantities to production batches.
Board into enclosure, wiring, connectors, display and fascia — the complete, assembled product, not a bare PCB.
Every unit powered and functionally tested against a defined spec; burn-in to catch early-life failures before they reach your customer.
Final inspection, serial numbering and firmware identity, your labelling and packaging — ready to dispatch under your brand.
Test jigs and functional-test specs are built alongside the product, so the same checks are applied to unit one and unit ten-thousand.
Four decades of embedded work means the platform, protocol and connectivity your product needs is usually one we have already shipped.
| Domain | What we work with |
|---|---|
| Processors | 8 / 16 / 32-bit microcontrollers, ARM Cortex-M / -A, application processors for Linux-class products |
| Firmware | Bare-metal and RTOS, bootloaders and field firmware update, embedded Linux where the product needs it |
| Industrial protocols | Modbus RTU / TCP, Profibus, Profinet, CAN, BACnet, RS232 / RS485, digital & analog I/O (4–20 mA / 0–10 V) |
| Connectivity | Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth / BLE, GSM / GPRS / 4G, LoRa and RF, GPS |
| Cloud & IIoT | Device-to-cloud links, MQTT / REST, gateways and dashboards, remote monitoring & update |
| Interfaces & sensing | LED / LCD / TFT displays, keypads & touch, sensor front-ends, relays, motor & power control |
| Power | SMPS and linear supplies, battery and back-up, wide-input industrial rails |
| Enclosure | Sheet-metal and moulded, panel / DIN / wall mount, IP-rated field housings |
If your product needs a platform not listed here, it is almost certainly still within reach — ask.
From “here are the files, build it” to “here’s the idea, take it all the way” — pick the model that fits how much you want to own.
For a proven design that needs a reliable manufacturer.
For a product you want to own without a hardware team.
For getting to market quickly on a working base.
For a product going obsolete you cannot afford to lose.
One roof — design, firmware, enclosure, build and test in one team; no vendor hand-offs to manage.
Proven makers — we ship our own products, so your design is built by people who make hardware for a living.
Faster to market — prototype to production without stitching three suppliers together.
Design for cost — parts, board and build optimised so the product is manufacturable and affordable.
Tested & traceable — functional test and burn-in on every unit, with serial-level traceability.
Long-life supply — obsolescence managed, revisions and spares supported for years.
OEM & EMS engagements are scoped to the product — design content, volumes, test regime, IP ownership and support are agreed per programme, and a proposal is prepared against your requirement. KVAR Technologies has designed and manufactured embedded products for industrial applications for nearly four decades. Contact us with a spec, a sample or an idea for a confidential discussion under NDA.