Looking For Complete Product Design?

Our wealth of knowledge and experience makes us the ideal choice for electronic product development. Companies can use us as their entire engineering department, offering substantial savings over providing these facilities in house. Alternatively, our services can be used to supplement existing in house facilities.

We are able to develop new products and software projects on short timescale's, getting your concept to market in the minimum time.

Need A Solution For A Special Project?

Unlike many other companies, we also specialise in providing custom designed solutions for one-off special projects. Our in-house facilities allow us to provide solutions quickly and cost effectively.

Just Looking For Occasional Subcontract Services?

In addition to providing complete solutions IBEX also offers individual design services to companies. These include:

• Research & Development
• Electronic Design
• PCB (Printed Circuit Board) Design
• Embedded Software Development
• PC Software Development
• iOS Software Development
• Web Server Software Development
• Enclosure Design
• Consultancy
• Project Management

If you're a design house needing to outsource we are happy to work as a silent subcontractor and we won't contact your clients directly to introduce ourselves!

Embedded Software Development

We are specialist embedded designers with a huge amount of experience designing products utilising everything from very low cost 8 bit microcontroller's to incredibly powerful 16 and 32 bit microcontroller's. The range of embedded devices available today is vast with the cost vs performance equation having become less and less of a factor in new product designs. Combined with falling prices in other technology areas, such as displays, we are able to design increasingly sophisticated devices with the lower and lower production costs.

We've built up massive libraries of working software modules over the years, allowing us to provide extremely competitive quotes for many projects. Our in house services include assembler, C and C++ embedded software development.

Apple iOS Software Development

We provide complete application development for the Apple iOS (iPhone, iPad and iPod) operating system. The introduction of the iPad has moved this field from being just relevant to applications for very small personal devices to now encompassing all sorts of electronic product applications. In addition to designing stand alone applications, providing connectivity from electronic products to an iPad based App is increasingly becoming preferred to developing software for the PC. With its intuitive ease of use the user experience is often able to be made much simpler and a lot more pleasurable. We are also approved members of the Apple MFi program, allowing us to design electronic products which connect to iOS devices via wired connections and Bluetooth.

PC Software Development

We don't just design software for electronic products. We also provide full PC software development services using Visual C++/CLI and C# (.NET). These are the most powerful of all the graphically based PC development languages, allowing us to provide PC applications engineered to run in the fastest and most versatile ways possible.

Web Server Software Development

We also develop software for web sites and online services using PHP, MySQL and Amazon Web Services (AWS). This ranges from providing online functionality for internet connected devices or PC applications to stand alone web site code development.

Completing The Package With Enclosure Design

We also provide product enclosure design to complete your overall product development. Our in house capabilities cover a range of technologies or should you require an enclosure design that needs a specialist in this field we can introduce you to some of the industries best designers that we have worked with and can recommend. We are also equally happy to work with an enclosure designer you have already selected.

The Best Online Tools

Face to face meetings can't be beaten, but we also offer great online meeting alternatives to our clients:

• We have the excellent Citrix GoToMeeting system for individual or group meetings. Using your internet browser you are able to view our computer screen live or even share your screen with us. It's brilliant for initial concept discussions, talking through designs and live tweaking of designs to your requirements as you watch. It's also a great aid when resolving issues with overseas suppliers and manufacturers.
• Skype video calls. Yes everyone has Skype, but call us on Skype and we'll always answer with video. There's no need to send video from your end if you don't have a camera or are having a bad hair day.
• Access all of your project files from our secure online file repository.

Environmental Design

We don't need to tell you how important environmental considerations are becoming. There are new European Environmental Directives coming into force that have a dramatic impact on the design, manufacture and recycling of electronic products. You can take one of two views on these. They are regulations so they can of course be viewed as a hurdle and cost to your company. However they are also a business opportunity. Apart from the fact that most companies who undertake a review of their impact on the environment discover significant savings to be made, people are becoming very environmentally aware and are making buying decisions based on the environmental impact of products. This obviously affects businesses that sell to consumers, but can also have a big impact for businesses that sell to businesses. Not only are your customers influenced by your products eco friendliness, but many companies are now choosing suppliers and products based on their environmental credentials, so that they can comply with their own companies environmental policies.

We're not eco warriors and we won't try to make you one, but we are a responsible company that takes the view that the new regulations are an opportunity for all businesses. Like it or not the regulations are here to stay, and they are set to become significantly more stringent over the coming years, so why not try and turn them to your competitive advantage? We can help you achieve a reduced carbon footprint design if you wish and we can advise you on your responsibilities and legal requirements as a producer of electrical products. Please contact us or see our resources page for more information.

Wide Ranging Experience

Over the years we have designed many different types of equipment. The demands of our clients are extremely diverse and we pride ourselves on being able to provide the solution for virtually any project. This has lead us to deal with many technologies, in many different fields.

Where we don't have the in-house facilities or knowledge required for an aspect of a project, we use the services of trusted subcontractors. This provides our clients with the same high quality service, from a single source, whatever their project requirements.

Frequently Asked Questions

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Professional Service

Our reputation is only as good as our last job. We pride ourselves on delivering the highest quality, on time and on budget.

"IBEX surpassed all our expectations with invaluable input and recommendations. All timescales and budgets were met and they have made our experience developing our first device very easy." Rose Bell, Algotec Ltd          "Having used IBEX to design and build several projects, I can unreservedly recommend them." Simon Beer, Integrated Circles          "Many thanks for your work on the game, it was fantastic." Robert Smith, Jog Limited          "You have in both projects been my best, most hassle free, efficient contributor. If only it was always so straightforward!" Richard Knight, Orblite Ltd          "IBEX is a very dynamic company which has always adapted to our requirements and has fulfilled budgets and timescales as agreed for each project." Jose Barrera, Quail Digital          "The new 6 ways have been out on their first proper job and were widely admired and worked well. Thanks for such a good job." Jon Bray, Summit Steel          "We recently commissioned IBEX to develop and build a control PCB. Their approach was very professional and the order was completed without any difficulty and within the timescale required. We will be working with them again in the very near future." Jo Bradford, ViewLogic UK Ltd

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Whatever the requirements of your next project, no matter how small or large, contact us to see how we can provide the complete solution.