Core Competencies at Columbia Tech
The following is a partial list of Coghlin Companies’ core competencies. How could your organization benefit from Coghlin’s expertise?

Columbia Tech Capabilities
- Project Management & Systems Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering: design, stress, thermal analysis
- Electrical Engineering: power distribution, controls
- Embedded PC, PCB schematic capture and layout, cable design
- Software Engineering
- PC based application software
- Embedded micro-control
- Industrial Design
- Refrigeration systems and engineering
- Compliance Testing
- Documentation
- Material control and materials coordinate for advanced releases
- Prototype and pre-manufacturing assembly and test
- Environmental testing (climatics), Environmental testing & prediction
- Product validation, Reliability testing & prediction
- Regulatory testing
- Worldwide safety certification
- Electrical Engineering, Analog/power supply
- Component engineering, DFx, Digital/high speed
- Electronic design, EMI/EMC testing & debug
- FPGA/CPLD, Optical, RF, Schematic development
- Industrial Design, Ergonomics/usability
- Plastic & sheet metal part design, Product & system-level design
- Rapid mockups and prototyping, Mechanical Engineering & Design
- Product design, Structural analysis
- System design, Thermal analysis & design
- PCB Design
- High layer-count boards, High speed interconnects
- Impedance/trace matching, Library management
- Software/Firmware Experience, BIOS customizations/modifications
- C, C++, Visual C, Visual BASIC, DSP
- Embedded control, High level languages
- Industry standard chipsets including Intel, Motorola, Texas Instruments, Hitachi and more
- Low-Level firmware/assembly, Win32 apps coding & integration
- Program management, Tool design & build (molds & dies)
Columbia Tech Process Capabilities
- Lot and component traceability
- Global sourcing partnerships
- Quick turn & NPI services
- Complete testing services, ICT, FCT, & system Level
- Integrated Quality System
- Materials Management System (MMS)
- Customer portal
- Demand flow and pull systems
- Kanban and JIT
- Computerized DFM, DFT, DFSC tools
- Automated Design for Manufacturing/Testing
System Assembly and Test Services
- Design for manufacturability analysis
- Prototype to volume production
- Build to order/configure to order
- Cellular manufacturing
- ECO/change management
- NPI through end-of-life production support
- Environmental Stress Screening (ESS)
- Full turnkey hardware and software test development
- Board level and system level functional test
- Reliability testing services
- Simulated application testing
- Custom-designed test equipment
- HASS testing