Engineering & Manufacturing

All Kavlico sensors are designed, manufactured, and tested at our highly automated facilities located in Moorpark, California, Tijuana, Mexico and Minden, Germany. From product design and development to manufacturing and final test, you can depend on Kavlico sensors to be rugged, accurate, reliable, and cost-effective.

Product Development

Pressure sensor design and prototype fabrication
Mechanical design and prototype fabrication
Hybrid, PCB and ASIC electronic circuit design and layout
Ceramic capacitive, silicon piezo-resitive or capacitive MEMS, and stainless steel thin film TiON technologies
Stress analysis
CAD
Tooling, fixtures, and equipment design and fabrication

Manufacturing

Flexible manufacturing
Automated vision systems
Digital programming
Thick film laser trimming
Heavy aluminum wire bonding
Ultrasonic welding
Temperature testing from -40°C to +150°C
100% pressure testing
Value added assembly
Internal automation development
Assembly line development
Fully automated
Semi-automated
Automation engineering & design team
Integrated into product development
Mechanical & electrical assembly
PC & PLC programming
Lifetime support of tooling
Surface mount component placement
Thick film screening & firing

Silicone fluid filling in vacuum
Vacuum sealing
Welding (laser, TIG, resistance, friction, and ultrasonic)
Brazing, soldering, epoxy, and UV cure
Soldering (automated, hand dip, screening, and reflow)
Silicon micro-machining
Wire bonding
Coil winding
Machining (milling, lathe, grinding, cutting, etching, and lapping)

Facilities & Tooling

Class 10 & 100 Clean Room Silicon Wafer Fabrication
Silicon wafer processing
Silicon wafer processing
Wafer bonding
Photolithography
Oxidation
Wet/Dry Etch
Thermal Processing
Wafer inspection
CMOS
Class 10000 Clean Room
Wafer sawing & cleaning
100% die probe and inspection

Pressure die matching
Automated die attach
Automated thermosonic gold wire bonding
Gel dispense & cure under vacuum
Scanning electron beam microscope (SEM)
Failure analysis laboratory
Reliability laboratory
Metrology laboratory