Eurobase Electronics Case Study

• Established in 1992 Eurobase has been providing a range of outsourced services to national and international companies across a broad range of industry sectors. The services offered range from storage and fulfillment right through to electronic manufacturing services (EMS)

From our ISO9001:2008 certified facility in Waterford (Ireland), we have been servicing the PCB assembly needs of many high reliability companies.  Our key sectors include, Environmental Monitoring, Green Technologies, Health and Safety & Pharmaceutical.

In 2010 Eurobase became a key strategic supplier to a high level Sensing Solutions Company .

In 1998, our client was formed to provide advanced sensor, software and instrumentation technology, their products are designed to diagnose opportunities to improve the productivity, health and safety of people, while increasing energy efficiency in buildings and identifying ‘green’ solutions.

Based in Ireland and the USA, they has achieved a market leading position for the portable diagnostic indoor air quality (IAQ) instrumentation market. Users include occupational hygienists, environmental consultants, facility managers and researchers. Clients include, the US military (where our client is the principal IAQ meter for the US Army and US Coast Guard), USEPA, USNIH, USDOS (embassies worldwide), German UBA (EPA), Johnson Controls (worldwide), Intel (worldwide), Philips (worldwide) and prestigious universities (worldwide). They also provides solutions for toxic gas exposure detection, ambient air testing and commercial heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) testing.

The initial collaboration began as a printed circuit assembly (PCA) which included source and supply of bare boards and the associated electronic components. We ensure quality raw material from proven and verified suppliers. This was initially carried out on a batch build basis but quickly moved to constant supply and the addition of multiple printed circuit assemblies called off from a covering purchase order. The printed circuit assemblies ranged in complexity from two to eight layer double sided surface mount and plated through-hole mix. Process and reliability confidence along with consistency of quality was quickly established and the relationship fast developed into supply chain management including material vendor management and storage, printed circuit assembly and test, complete unit assembly including wiring, calibration and system test. In essence this means that today Eurobase Electronics manufacture complete finished units on behalf of our client which are ready for delivery worldwide.

The symbiotic nature of the relationship between Eurobase Electronics and our client along with the growing worldwide demand for superior environmental test instrumentation has created some additional opportunities for both companies which they intend to explore.

This collaboration ensures that the product is designed, developed and manufactured in Ireland despite the fact that 99% of their sales are outside of Ireland, and over 85% are outside the EU (mainly North America, Asia and the Middle East)

Our client continues to develop new, cutting edge products. Most recently, has seen the introduction of the unique, highly versatile AdvancedSense embedded computer based environmental meter. This product was completely developed here in Ireland , the latest, pending R&D project would expand and significantly enhance the capability of the AdvancedSense model with housing suitable for outdoor ambient air monitoring, and the inclusion of an expanded range of sensors that reduce the limits of detection (required for outdoor ambient air, and advantageous for indoor air quality measurements.

The success of our collaboration offers an opportunity to bring this product to the market faster and helps underpin our clients position as market leader in air quality instrumentation.  It offers the additional benefits of an increase in export sales for our client and helps create additional employment opportunities within Eurobase Electronics.