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Back9 Design provides mechanical, electrical/electronic and product design expertise for clients developing electronic and mechanical products and devices. Located in the Silicon Valley in Northern California, Back9 Design has extensive experience defining, designing, documenting, and producing products in the networking, medical, commercial, industrial and audio/video markets. Designs have been taken from initial "napkin" concepts all the way through prototype and small production builds.

Back9 Design has considerable knowledge in start-up environments, thus gaining invaluable experience in not only design engineering, but also product documentation, component research and selection, PCB design interface, thermal analysis, product compliance testing and production / DFM requirements. Because of this unique experience, Back9 Design can provide a total turnkey product design to its clients, thus not tying up client resources and saving both time and money.



Services


Services

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Mechanical Design Engineering

Create and develop designs that include sheet metal, plastic, machined and casted part approaches. Back9 Design uses Solidwork's 3D CAD software platform for product designs. It also supports Pro-E and AutoCAD legacy projects, and uses Adobe Illustrator for graphic design requirements.

Create and develop designs that include sheet metal, plastic, machined and casted part approaches. Back9 Design uses Solidwork's 3D CAD software platform for product designs. It also supports Pro-E and AutoCAD legacy projects, and uses Adobe Illustrator for graphic design requirements.


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Electrical/Electronic Design Engineering

From architecture to schematic capture through the layout and manufacturing process, Back9 can support your product dreams. We will see you through your first prototypes to making sure you can volume manufacture. Back9 also has extensive programmable logic experience to support your complicated designs.

From architecture to schematic capture through the layout and manufacturing process, Back9 can support your product dreams. We will see you through your first prototypes to making sure you can volume manufacture. Back9 also has extensive programmable logic experience to support your complicated designs.

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Industrial Design

Back9 Design can support client projects that require industrial design approaches for a more artistic looking design.

Back9 Design can support client projects that require industrial design approaches for a more artistic looking design.


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Thermal Analysis

Back9 Design has relationships with local industry resources that tackle any thermal analysis requirement, from component level to system level projects.

Back9 Design has relationships with local industry resources that tackle any thermal analysis requirement, from component level to system level projects.


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Printed Circuit Board Design

Back9 Design has worked with multiple local and worldwide PCB service bureaus to support printed circuit board definition, support and design. It has extensive experience with printed circuit board design, fabrication and assembly projects.

Back9 Design has worked with multiple local and worldwide PCB service bureaus to support printed circuit board definition, support and design. It has extensive experience with printed circuit board design, fabrication and assembly projects.


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Manufacturing Vendor Interaction

Back9 Design has worked with multiple vendors over the years, not only in the Silicon Valley but world wide. This experience allows Back9 Design to recommend and work with appropriate vendors to meet its clients prototyping and production needs.

Back9 Design has worked with multiple vendors over the years, not only in the Silicon Valley but world wide. This experience allows Back9 Design to recommend and work with appropriate vendors to meet its clients prototyping and production needs.


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Product Documentation

Product Documentation is a function of the product development cycle that gets overlooked a lot, much to the detriment of the product's success. Back9 Design has prided itself on providing clean and concise documentation packages, fabrication and archive files to its clients and their vendors to make the transition from drawing board to production line that much easier.

Product Documentation is a function of the product development cycle that gets overlooked a lot, much to the detriment of the product's success. Back9 Design has prided itself on providing clean and concise documentation packages, fabrication and archive files to its clients and their vendors to make the transition from drawing board to production line that much easier.


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Agency Compliance Approvals / Testing

Back9 Design has considerable experience not only designing to, but applying and actually testing products for industry and national safety, emissions and environmental standards. This includes ordinary location, hazardous location and international requirements.

Back9 Design has considerable experience not only designing to, but applying and actually testing products for industry and national safety, emissions and environmental standards. This includes ordinary location, hazardous location and international requirements.


Partners

Partners

Back9 Design is proud to be partnered with the following companies:

Arira Design is an industry leader in electronic product design and development. Founded in 2003, they have the experience and expertise to meet any electronic hardware design project. Learn More

SEL (Safety Engineering Laboratory) has been a staple in the Silicon Valley for years in meeting its customer's product compliance testing and certification needs. Learn More






Contact

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About Back9 Design

About Back9 Design

I started Back9 Design to leverage my years of experience in designing and developing products in Silicon Valley and across the world.

A majority of those years have been in the startup environment, during which I have gained invaluable experience in getting products designed, tested and manufactured. This knowledge allows me to provide a total design solution to my customers.

Jim Arthur
Principal
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