We’re Committed to the Highest Quality
Our goal is to produce the highest quality electronic product, with consideration to the newest manufacturing processes, the best material, and with a warranty we will gladly back at any time.
Manufacturing costs will never cause us to make hasty decisions and release a product that’s anywhere short of our highest production ability.
It’s common for us to service products that are over 20 years old.
Parallax Manufactures Development Boards in the USA (Rocklin, California)
Since the beginning of Parallax we have taken the highest pride in our quality as an American manufacturer. The benefits of this are that we are able to quickly turn a prototype into production, that we consider our manufacturing capabilities from the onset of a design, that we can quickly fix a manufacturing problem and ship products quicker than ever. If we manufacture a product that doesn’t pass our test procedures – or worse yet passes yet fails under a condition for which we did not test – we can do another production run and ensure that our customers are working with current hardware. We don’t ship prototypes!
Self Reliance Protects Against Global Market Manipulations
The ability of an American company to perform consistently in a global marketplace is only possible when the company manufactures its own products. We can’t control material costs consistently when politicians dictate trade policies. Market supplies are globally accessible and governmental manipulation of prices and tariffs is only cause for unnecessary expense to our customers and business in the form of price fluctuations and sourcing challenges. We can partially insulate against these policies by manufacturing our own product and holding ample raw materials.
Parallax Electronics Manufacturing Equipment
- SMT Solder Screen Printer – This is the first machine in our surface-mount assembly line. This machine uses a carefully-controlled squeegee to apply soldering paste to the top of a stencil with a PCB underneath.
- Assembleon Opal-X II Pick-and-Place Machine – This pick-and-place machine places components on circuit boards faster than we can package and test them!
- ACE Protech Selective Solder Machine (KISS 102) – KISS stands for “Keep It Simple Soldering”. An automated selective soldering machine, used to replace the high labor cost of hand soldering in our manufacturing rooms. This machine delivers molten solder directly to through-hole applications with automated precision.
- Heller 1707 EXL Reflow Oven – This reflow oven finalized our conversion to lead-free manufacturing (RoHS). The oven heats the paste added onto the boards by the SMT Solder Screen Printer which solders the parts to the board.
- Technical Devices Washer – Much like a home dishwasher, however, it uses a very specific blend of chemicals that clean flux off of the boards, because leftover residue can corrode the boards.
- Miller 350P MIG Welder – Provides in-house fabrication for tooling fixtures, custom machinery and some prototype work.
- Torit Donaldson 20-5 Cyclone Dust Collector – The Dust Collector sits outside of the Parallax Inc. facility. It behaves as a giant vacuum, keeping the work environment safe from pollution and the products tidy and clean.
Made in USA Partners
Other Made in USA products in our store include CNC-machined and laser-cut mechanical parts from DOCO Engineering in Red Bluff, California.