EMS MANUFACTURERS RELY ON SUTHERLAND PRESSES FOR PRECISION, UPTIME, AND LOWER COST

Oct 10, 2025

Electronics manufacturers live on precision, repeatability, and uptime—and they’re measured on first-pass yield, time to PPAP/customer approval, and total cost over the machine lifecycle.

Sutherland and KC Presses address these metrics directly, helping EMS teams:

  • Improve yield on thin metals and sensitive assemblies
  • Reduce changeover time and utility spend
  • Increase uptime with clear diagnostics and remote support

The result: higher productivity, faster approvals, and lower operating costs.

Controls-First Platforms for Electronics

Sutherland’s portfolio pairs modern servo-hydraulic cells for NPI and sustaining work with high-throughput mechanical stamping lines for volume production.

Across both, the I-PRESS® & Automation Control standardizes the operator experience—putting motion, pressure, temperature, and data under one unified system.
This makes it easier to develop, validate, and lock process windows—essential when managing short runs and rapid design changes.

Process Control for Delicate Metals

For shields, contacts, terminals, heat sinks, and frames made from thin copper, stainless, and aluminum foils, controlled motion is everything.

The I-PRESS® control allows users to program by:

  • Position
  • Pressure
  • Speed

This minimizes burrs, avoids over-forming, and protects both parts and dies.


Servo-hydraulic cells excel at low-speed bedding, dwell, and decompression, while mechanical lines deliver stable throughput once the recipe is proven.

Faster Changeovers, Faster Approvals

EMS operations thrive on rapid model changes and small batch runs.
Features like:

  • Job memory and guided setups
  • Recipe portability between presses
  • Standardized screens, alarms, and die-protection logic

These reduce operator variability and ensure validated settings repeat from shift to shift and plant to plant—helping teams hit PPAP targets sooner and cut scrap during ramp-up.

Industry 4.0 Diagnostics and Remote Support

With real-time diagnostics, trend views, and data logging, process and maintenance teams gain full visibility to:

  • Troubleshoot faster
  • Document compliance for audits
  • Track performance over time

Through secure remote support, experts can review alarms, valve actions, and sensor data in minutes—shortening MTTR and preventing unplanned downtime.

Lower Energy and Maintenance by Design

Advanced fluid management and servo drives cut idle losses, heat, and noise compared to conventional hydraulics—lowering utility bills while extending fluid and component life.

Maintenance is simplified with:

  • Clear fault guidance
  • Labeled test ports
  • Common Tier-1 components

Together, these reduce lifecycle cost without compromising performance.

From NPI Cells to Volume Production

Whether you’re:

  • Proving out a new design in a compact servo-hydraulic C-frame, or
  • Running established programs on straight-side mechanical lines,

Sutherland and KC Presses provide a unified path from prototype to scale.

The outcome for EMS manufacturers:
✅ Consistent first-pass yield
✅ Shorter changeovers and PPAPs
✅ Lower energy and maintenance costs
✅ Higher uptime

All engineered for the realities of modern electronics production.

CONTACT US

📧 sales@sutherlandpresses.com
📞 +1-310-453-6981

Send us bed size, stroke, daylight, target speeds, and preferred options to accelerate your proposal and shipment.

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EMS MANUFACTURERS RELY ON SUTHERLAND PRESSES FOR PRECISION, UPTIME, AND LOWER COST

Electronics manufacturers live on precision, repeatability, and uptime—and they’re measured on first-pass yield, time to PPAP/customer approval, and total cost over the machine lifecycle.

Sutherland and KC Presses address these metrics directly, helping EMS teams:

  • Improve yield on thin metals and sensitive assemblies
  • Reduce changeover time and utility spend
  • Increase uptime with clear diagnostics and remote support

The result: higher productivity, faster approvals, and lower operating costs.

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