Innovation & Prototyping | Butler Technologies, Inc.

We Are Committed to Innovation

We pride ourselves on helping companies with technically challenging designs. Our curiosity drives us to innovate creative solutions.

Throughout the past 30+ years, Butler Technologies has transformed itself from a printing brokerage firm into a printed electronics solutions provider. As a manufacturing facility, we play a vital role as a developer, helping customers turn ideas and needs into functional products, with our proof-of-concept development, prototyping, and research & development activities.

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New Inks and Materials

We use a variety of inks, substrates, and adhesives from our many raw material suppliers. Through our strategic partnerships with ink and material suppliers, we participate in product development and testing, which often leads to early, exclusive access to new and improved materials. This allows us to provide innovative solutions to our customers much faster than our competitors, whether for a decorative label, a functional interface, or a sensor.

Functional Product Development

Many of the inks and substrates used by BTI are designed exclusively for functional products such as biometric sensors, force sensing resistors, and flexible heaters. Many of these applications require advanced printing techniques to yield successful outcomes.

Our functional product customers include hardware, software, or soft goods companies seeking sensors or heaters to enhance their products. If your company has a design for a sensor or heater circuit that you need manufactured, BTI will work with you to review the design for the optimal material set and manufacturability, and then print and fabricate the final design into a functional product for incorporation into your sub-assembly or final device.

Continual Improvement

Your production process shouldn’t be stagnant. We have a dedicated Operational Excellence team that focuses on finding new and better ways to produce your parts. Whether through alternative material sourcing or rethinking different aspects of the production process, many of our returning customers enjoy the benefit of their parts being produced better and more cost-effectively in future reorders.

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Prototyping

Not all projects can go straight from design to production. Many customers want to see their designs in real life before they go to full-scale production. This way you are confident in how your part will function and look upon delivery.

Other designs require iterative development, especially for brand-new, cutting-edge projects. Your ideas don’t need to be fully fleshed out before starting the process with us. We are here to collaborate on developing your ideas.

The Production Process

Butler Technologies is a technical screen printer & fabricator of printed electronics sensors and heater circuits. There are typically several steps and corresponding companies involved in the product development process. Once the initial design concept is created and provided by the customer, the typical processes involved in the manufacturing of a product incorporating a BTI-printed sensor or heater are as follows:

Step 1: Printing and Fabricating the Sensor or Heater Circuit

Responsibility: Butler Technologies

Examples: Biometric Sensor, Force
Sensing Array, Flexible Garment Heater

Step 2: Building the Necessary Sensor or Heater Sub-Assemblies

Responsibility: Customer or 3rd Party Contractor

Examples: Wire Leads/Connectors, Battery Packs, Assembly to Foams/Fabric, Software, and Hardware.

Step 3: Final Product/Device Assembly

Responsibility: Customer or 3rd Party Contractor

Examples: Integration of sensors/heaters and sub-assemblies into the final product, such as a printed heater, a wire harness, and a power source, into a heated jacket.