OEM TECHNOLOGIES™
A Rich History of Bringing Your Ideas to Life
Founded in 1903, The Siemon Company, initially known as Siemon Hard Rubber Company, was established on OEM principles, catering to the needs of the telecommunications, electrical apparatus, automotive, and entertainment industries by developing solutions that meet manufacturer specifications. With over a century of experience, innovation, quality, and reliability infuse life into every product bearing the Siemon name.
Throughout the years, our engineers and product managers have collaborated with companies like Western Electric (now AT&T), contributing to the development of the three-pole connecting block and later the 66 block, which set the stage for Siemon’s current trajectory in telecommunications. With over 400 patents and the unique ability to have vertical control over the entire manufacturing process, Siemon is the ideal partner to solve your IT infrastructure challenges.
Presently, Siemon OEM Technologies is a trusted partner to global market leading brands in the Data Center, Industrial Automation, Cellular Wireless, Audio/Video, and other markets that demand uncompromising quality, reliability, and performance to sustain their essential network connections.
The OEM Technologies Foundation
Dive deeper into the core capabilities that make Siemon Company the ideal partner for your Original Equipment Manufacturing needs.
Research and Development
With more than 400 patents related to network cabling, Siemon Labs invests heavily in research, development and its manufacturing capabilities, underlying Siemon’s long-standing commitment to its customers and the industry.
Our Product Development Engineers and R&D Labs combine state-of-the-art engineering equipment and prototyping capabilities with years of experience, to lead the industry in the development of innovative high-speed connectivity solutions.
Engineering
Siemon engineers use the most advanced technological tools, resources and industry standards as a basis for new product development, which ensures the highest quality and performance. When Siemon engineers design a new product, they do so knowing that the individual components required can be manufactured to the most exacting standards.
Siemon works hard to understand our customers’ needs today; anticipate their needs for the future and then develop the best possible solutions for both. We pride ourselves on our on-time deliveries and near perfect fill rates. It is our goal to exceed our customers’ expectations – every day.
Although the methods for ensuring quality have changed since 1903, Siemon’s approach has not. Vertically integrated from the inspection of raw materials to the testing of assembled products, Siemon tightly controls every step in the manufacturing process.
Siemon’s high-precision plastic molding and metal stamping and forming facilities feed a highly-automated assembly operation in a model of integrated efficiency. Siemon engineers and manufacturing experts work closely with assembly teams to ensure that quality and reliability are fully integrated into every Siemon component and assembled product.
Product Development Process
To ensure that our clients requirements are met, we engage in a highly collaborative process with customer product teams and keep them updated on every product phase.
New Product Design and Development Process
The design and development process for new product development is divided into 5 stages. Stage gate reviews are conducted at the end of each stage to evaluate the project status and confirm that the NPD process is upheld.
Generally, stages should not be started until the end of the previous stage is complete. In order to keep the process flexible, however, the team may elect to start some tasks in advance of completing the current stage.
“We listen and translate our clients ideas into design specifications.”
Project Management
The Siemon Company, with a legacy of innovation and global presence, collaborates closely with clients to fulfill custom specifications. Our expertise spans research, development, and manufacturing, offering tailored interconnect solutions. Siemon’s world-class facilities, certified for environmental and quality management systems, specialize in a range of manufacturing processes from tooling to precision molding and metal forming. We are dedicated to continuous improvement and uphold the highest quality standards.
Siemon’s capabilities extend to developing specialized connectivity for new technologies and comprehensive cabling infrastructures for modern data centers. Our teams engage directly with clients to ensure all needs and deadlines are met. The company empowers clients to overcome business challenges and gain a competitive edge through custom-engineered solutions.
Serving major sectors like Financial Services, Web Services, Telecommunications, Industrial, Energy, and Manufacturing, Siemon is proud to offer an extensive portfolio of top-tier products, services, and solutions, all stemming from their in-house global manufacturing and distribution network.
Tooling
Siemon’s advanced tooling capabilities create the components that feed our highly automated assembly operation. In conjunction with an industry-leading Research and Development Lab and engineering team that utilizes cutting-edge technologies such as 3D printing for rapid prototyping, our-house tooling capabilities allows the company to take their products from new ideas to finished goods, right onsite.
The entire product lifecycle occurs in one location. Enabling swift response times to client requests and innovating knowledge of what’s on the horizon.
Injection Molding
Siemon’s world class injection mold capabilities provide key advantages for producing high quality, precision plastic components. Siemon has been molding plastics for over a century and has earned its reputation as a premier plastics manufacturer with the expertise and quality you can count on. Advantages of Siemon’s injection molding capabilties are:
- Low volume, single cavity molds
- High quality, high volume multi-cavity molds
- Fast turnaround time
- High quality precision plastics (ISO 9001)
- Efficient production processes
- Repeatable process control
- Commodity and Engineering grade resins
- On-site mold making and repair
- Automated 24/7 molding
With a vast offering of injection molding machines ranging from 33-385 ton presses, our facilities are capable of producing plastic products varying in sizes from very small delicate components to large robust parts. Our fully staffed and equipped tool rooms include state of the art equipment coupled with skilled craftsmen who follow strict quality control processes.
CNC Sheet Metal
Siemon’s technology continues to drive improvement and innovation in modern metal working through CNC programmed metal cutting, forming and fabrication. Siemon’s metal cutting capabilities allow expedited turnaround times for sheet metal prototypes and the rapid production of complex products that require precise dimensions, shapes and cuts.
Siemon’s primary mission is to provide consistent quality through all of the manufacturing and assembly processes. Our CAD/CAM Department utilizes computer modeling to draft parts, as well as control our CNC machines. We can then automatically inspect those parts and while in the flat verify them.
Metal Stamping
Siemon’s capabilities for precision metal stamping has advanced through it’s own need for high quality connection. In developing it’s competencies for progressive metal stamping, it has become an integral part of Siemon’s manufacturing abilities, reinvesting in R&D, new equipment and new capabilities to keep pace with the market.
Siemon’s metal stamping service is completed through comprehensive monitoring during production, inspection of parts for quality and accuracy, and testing for accountability. Quality assurance is a top priority for us and we take all steps to ensure that our components live up to the standards we set for ourselves. Utilizing a lean manufacturing environment improves our ability to provide the highest level of service to all of our customers.
Automation
As part of our transition toward Industry 4.0, Siemon continues to invest in technology to ensure our competitive advantage in the global landscape. Incorporating advanced technologies like AI-driven vision systems and pressure sensors help to ensure repeatability and efficiency throughout the manufacturing process.
Siemon has strategically incorporated cutting-edge technologies like pick and place robots, advanced feeding mechanisms, and programming designed for synchronous motion to significantly increase productivity and quality assurance, ultimately leading to customer satisfaction.
Cable Assembly
Data has become the most valuable corporate asset. How to effectively transmit, store, access, protect and manage critical data is a challenge Siemon has mastered.
Siemon cable assemblies provide system designers an extensive selection of connectivity solutions across a wide range of industries and applications. From high-performance IO cable assemblies used in HPC Datacenters to Siemon’s extensive selection of fiber and copper Ethernet network cables for just about anything with an IP address. System level integration is supported through the use of Siemon’s flexible design, test and manufacturing capabilities.
Siemon acknowledges that the network connection between devices is typically the cause of intermittent or failed connections, which is why Siemon takes no shortcuts. All cable assemblies manufactured by Siemon are produced from quality materials, assembled to exacting standards, and 100% performance certified on the product line.
Assembly and Kitting
Kitting has various benefits as the overall effect is to reduce the time taken in processing parts and reduce downtime for the assembly line. Siemon’s use of assembly and kitting helps reduce handling, motion time by operators and machine downtime due to parts availability.
For products that consistently ship together as a set, pre-kitted packages save time and money and make good sense. The advantage of pre-assembled kits is the streamlined kitting process where everything is assembled and completed in order. Research shows that this method eliminates workflow bottlenecks by positioning kit elements linearly to facilitate gathering and assembly.
Benefits of kitting include:
- Increased efficiencies
- Reduced waste
- Simplified ordering process
- Reduced packaging materials
- Reduced fright cost
- Ensures ISO factory quality and assurance
With our well-defined kitting and assembly process, Siemon’s team ensures efficiency and order accuracy and final kits are spot-checked to ensure quality as a final measure of precision. Maintaining inventoried pre-packaged kits allows Siemon’s customers to react quickly in cases of sudden increases in order demand.
Product Testing
Much of the precise measuring equipment used by Siemon R&D Labs is the same high-end equipment used by third party test labs. On-site performance verification is crucial to our R&D processes, ensuring we meet or exceed industry specifications. By continually developing new methods and test procedures, quality and performance levels rise to new heights, paving the way for tomorrow’s technologies.
- Bit Error Rate Testers
- Network Analyzers
- Optical Time Domain Reflectometers
- Smart Scopes
- Interferometers
- Insertion Loss Meters
- Optical Switches
- Environmental Chambers
- Back Reflection Meters
- Vibration Tables
Engineering – Where form and function meet
Siemon works hard to understand our customers’ needs today; anticipate their needs for the future and then develop the best possible solutions for both. Siemon engineers use the most advanced technological tools, resources and industry standards as a basis for new product development, which ensures the highest quality and performance. When our engineers design a new product, they do so knowing that the individual components required can be manufactured to the most exacting standards.
Research & Development – Innovation Realized
With more than 400 patents related to network cabling, Siemon Labs invests heavily in research, development and its manufacturing capabilities, underlying Siemon’s long-standing commitment to its customers and the industry.Our Product Development Engineers and R&D Labs combine state-of-the-art engineering equipment and prototyping capabilities with years of experience, to lead the industry in the development of innovative high speed connectivity solutions. These same experts and resources are aligned to work one-on-one with our customers to solve their unique
Product Development - Process = Excellence
The Siemon company utilizes a Stage Gate process consisting of 5 stages that are instrumental in ushering new products to existence. The process allows for ideation, refinement and validation throughout each gate, ultimately resulting in a product spec’d to the exact requirements of the customer ready to launch.
Project Management – Peace of Mind
Working alongside our client project teams, we help our clients engineer custom solutions to solve business challenges while embowering them to build innovative, lasting, and competitive advantages. Siemon’s project management capabilities has help some of the largest Financial Services, Web Services, Telecommunications, Industrial, Energy and Manufacturing companies in the world develop best-in-class products.
