Onanon
| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Electronics manufacturing |
| Founded | 1979 |
| Headquarters | Milpitas, California , United States |
| Products | Custom connectors, medical connectors, medical cables, printed circuit boards, sensors |
Onanon is a company specializing in design, engineering, and manufacturing with a focus on automating the production of panel arrays that allow for simultaneous fabrication of multiple units. Utilizing engineered plastics combined with high-speed automated machinery, the firm produces connectors in large-scale batches, significantly decreasing manual intervention and the likelihood of errors. The company incorporates printed circuit boards as foundational substrates for component assembly. Based in Milpitas, California, Onanon was a trailblazer in employing PC boards as substrates for connector pins—a practice that has since become industry standard but was once groundbreaking.
History
Established in 1979, Onanon started as a design, prototyping, and manufacturing enterprise concentrating on value-added connectors and cable assemblies integrated with electronics. Over time, it evolved to emphasize custom connector design, which now constitutes its main manufacturing strategy. By leveraging multi-head automation and its proprietary "breadboard" panel array technique, the company boosts production capacity while enabling engineers to embed functional elements directly into connectors—resulting in cost reductions and improved performance.
Products
Onanon offers highly customizable solutions tailored to both medical and industrial markets, categorizing products by type or application sector. The company is committed to developing future offerings featuring open architecture to foster collaborative design efforts and innovation.
Circuit Boards
The company produces sophisticated printed circuit boards through an extensively automated batch process aimed at supplying industrial computer boards for healthcare and industrial uses. With adherence to RoHS standards, there has been a notable increase in demand for solderless board technology.
Custom Connectors
Onanon manufactures engineered plastic connectors that can be customized in dimensions and configurations to include either passive or active electrical elements with varying pin counts. Additionally, the product line includes female clips and connector assemblies.
Medical Connectors
Engineered for sensitive signal processing applications, Onanon’s medical connectors allow OEMs to incorporate microscale systems with embedded intelligence. These connectors improve signal integrity and reduce electromagnetic interference (EMI). Their rapid wire-termination methods minimize solder usage, thereby preserving printed circuit board reliability.
Medical Cables
Tailored specifically for medical device applications, Onanon’s cable assemblies are produced in a vertically integrated facility featuring fast automated wire termination, molding processes, surface-mount technology (SMT) component placement, and automated connector pin assembly. This setup offers OEMs a dependable, cost-effective source on a global scale.
Sensors
In sensor devices transmitting analog signals, Onanon connectors function as low-impedance amplifiers. Through breadboard manufacturing techniques, engineers can embed operational amplifiers directly onto the connector assemblies, simplifying wiring complexity.