Take advantage of our agile culture and industry-leading manufacturing processes and test facilities.
We manufacture with extreme precision, using our highly automated microelectronic assembly process. Our manufacturing teams thrive on challenging projects where the solutions we produce push the boundaries of RF electronics and materials.
RF experts with a track record of delivery
Filtronic are an industry-leading team of experts, who provide customised manufacturing solutions for high tech industries including Space, Defence, Telecommunications and First responder
networks.
Our team have on average 20 years of experience at our Salisbury, Maryland facility, so able to service complex sub-assemblies and offer a wide range of end-to-end manufacturing services to Original Equipment Manufacturers. Filtronic are the ideal partner for customised contract assembly services.
Filtronic are a multi-disciplinary team, who can also design, manufacture and test products that transmit, receive and condition radio waves, particularly at microwave and mmWave frequencies. Mission-critical communication networks globally depend on our systems and components.
EMS capabilities, RF expertise and supply chain management
Our team can help with with a range of issues including:
- Procurement
- Electro-mechanical assembly
- Manufacturing engineering
- Prototype/NPI
- Supply chain control
Our electromechanical manufacturing services enable customers to take advantage of our agile culture and industry-leading manufacturing processes and test facilities. We work collaboratively to remove cost from their operations, we also reduce time to market and improve quality all without any additional overheads or purchasing capital equipment.
Our facility in Salisbury, Maryland
- Salisbury, USA
- 16,000 square feet total size
- 20,000 square feet under temperature control
- 5,000 square feet of ESD safe work area for sensitive designs


Microelectronic manufacturing services (USA)
Filtronic offers competitive contract assembly and test services for a range of sectors including critical communications; telecom infrastructure and aerospace & defence from our Salisbury, Maryland site.
An overview of services include:
- Quick-turn electronics assembly
- Equipment build-up (including rack, stack and commissioning)
- Equipment and operational testing
- Repair depot with embedded process audit

Contract assembly & test services
Filtronic offer competitive contract assembly and test services for the following sectors

Track record
For over 30 years Filtronic have been specializing in assembling complex electro-mechanical components, sub-assemblies and box builds. We build long-lasting relationships, built on quality, flexibility, process control and customer satisfaction.
Contact Filtronic if you want to:
- Drive out costs from your manufacturing
- Supplement internal capacity
- Have a quick turnaround
- Reshore or near shore

How we can help
We add value through our expertise and experience in RF design and manufacturing. We use our manufacturing capability to accelerate our customers’ time to market, reduce costs and improve processes without adding overheads or capital equipment. This combined with access
to leading supply chains gives us a unique position within the industry. Our business model is based on lean manufacturing principles, allowing us to rapidly ramp up or down in response to demand. We work closely with our customers to understand their challenges and then find the best solutions for them.
Services include:
- Quick turn filter, combiner and electronics assembly
- Electro mechanical assembly
- Equipment build-up (including rack, stack and commissioning)
- Box build assembly
- Repair depot with embedded process audit
- Testing
- Cable assemblies
- Harness assemblies
- NPI/prototype development
- Environmental testing
- Order fulfilment, including inventory hubbing and side kitting
- Reshoring of processes
- Warehousing
- Equipment staging, including build up, wiring, test, shrink wrap and skidding
Process control for full traceability
Our robust proprietary microelectronic manufacturing and process control system ensures real-time organisation wide access to material traceability, inventory management, WIP tracking, SPC, yield reporting and on-time delivery.
Real time throughout and yield tracking
- Displays throughput and yield by process
- Can be filtered by Job, Product, Sequence, Site
- Displayed by Hour/Shift /Day /Week/Month
Control
- Define work flow.
- WIP track individual parts.
- Assemblies must progress through the defined process flow.
- Ensures operators are trained for processes.
- ESD controls are auto-enforced.
Detailed item status
- Parent/child assemblies and sub-assemblies have unique serial numbers for full material control and traceability.


Supply chain resilience
Filtronic has a well-established global supply chain with strong supplier partnerships, and our buying power is increased by leveraging demand from multiple clients, which can result
in significant BoM cost reduction. Our supplier partnerships include MMIC foundry and semiconductor vendors.

Dual Sourcing
Clients around the world trust Filtronic with the prototyping and manufacture of their own product designs, due to its first-class reputation for product quality and reliability. We are equally comfortable manufacturing to a customer’s design, as we are designing and manufacturing our own high-performance products. Alternatively, we work with our clients, fusing their core competencies with ours to optimize their original design.

Capabilities
- Environmental stress testing with the latest temperature and humidity chambers
- RF analysis test equipment coupled with automated test software
- Network Analysis
- Discrete Signal Analysis (Sig Gens, Spectrum Analyzers, Power meter)
- Noise Figure Analysis
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