Manufacturing
ODM / OEM Appliances

Your brand, software, concept, design / build team;
our perfect appliance solution.

We understand the challenges faced by technology providers to build their solutions from concept to ready-to-ship product. For original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), original design manufacturers (ODMs), software developers (ISVs) and service providers, NextComputing offers services to bring your vision to life.

At NextComputing, we custom design/build hardware system solutions with optimized performance and fast time to market across a wide range of industries. We have years of experience in designing, deploying and managing under configuration control complete custom appliances to turn your solution into a performance optimized, purpose built appliance or product family

Original Equipment Manufacturers

Are you looking for a completely new high-performance computing platform designed for your specific requirements? Let NextComputing build your solution with top-of-the-line components and in a form factor unique to you. We'll work with you every step of the way from concept to engineering to manufacturing.

NextComputing offers expert OEM services for enterprise / workstation-class computing and custom I/O across many industries. Whether you want to provide your customers with compact, all-in-one tools for live streaming video from any location, or you need a proprietary fly-away kit for your specific network security needs, we will work with you to build your perfect solution.

NextComputing can design / build rugged workstations to meet MIL specifications, including 810E/901E/167, cost effectively and with agility. Our fast development time supports agile deployments consistent with Other Transaction Authority (OTA (10 U.S.C. 4021) of the Department of Defense (DoD). We apply a similar process to prototypes, research, and production projects for systems integrators, OEMS and government OTA systems. Our expertise in deployable high performance rugged customized systems can be brought to production and deployed quickly and reliably.

Original Design Manufacturer

With a wide variety of high-performance configurations in a range of form factors, NextComputing may already have the perfect solution to meet the needs of your business or your customers. In these cases, we offer original design manufacturer (ODM) or “private labeling,” services to integrate your brand.

Parts can be customized with high-quality silkscreens featuring your logo or custom I/O labels for ease of use.
Paint colors on parts or entire chassis can be changed to match your brand guidelines.
Carrying bags can be stitched with your logo, and rugged travel cases can be labeled with your brand for a consistent visual identity.

Optimized Appliance Solutions

Hardware solutions and services for software developers,
service providers and government contractors

For software developers (ISVs) and service providers, NextComputing offers services to match a wide range of needs:

If you have a requirement from 50 to 2000 purpose built appliances, whose requirements are workstation or server class capabilities but with an application specific use
If you need something that is more consistent with what you want your brand to be
If you want to focus your resources on your software or your services and your customers
If your are struggling to get more performance out of your software or open source applications due to system limitations
If you want to reduce engineering costs, eliminate or reduce internal production cost overheads, outsource some of your systems engineering, outsource some of your mechanical engineering, move away from in-house fulfillment services, become more nimble in your market, improve cash flow, go to market more quickly, or reduce inventory problems

If any or all of these apply to you, please review the following list of capabilities and contact us to discuss what NextComputing can offer you.

Software binary performance optimization services

A special expertise we offer to software publishers, developers, and open source integrators is to analyze your binary applications and requirements on your current system configuration and evaluate how we can maximize its performance. We do this by identifying system bottlenecks from memory bandwidth, processor core or hyper thread utilization, GPU co-processing, RAID(s) settings/optimizations, disk I-O, PCI Express I-O optimization, network I-O, BIOS optimizations, operating system optimization within Linux / Windows / OVAs/virtualization. Then, after this assessment, we implement an improved solution.
We will recommend, implement and test these configuration controlled optimizations, settings and hardware tuning to maximize the performance of your application.
As part of an ongoing relationship, our team will work at regular intervals with your software team to suggest code or configuration modifications as well as hardware component road-map updates as part of your continuous performance improvement and cost optimization while managing this under configuration control.
We offer ISO imaging services that include functional verification of driver and OS patch release versions to ensure interoperability with your application and I-O cards.

Design your custom chassis or integrate an off the shelf chassis

Our mechanical design and 3D modeling capabilities enable a collaborative custom designed chassis including injection molded plastic parts as applicable.
We have a strong expertise in professional-grade small form-factor appliances for audio, video, and data recording and processing
If a custom design chassis is not the best fit due to business case or volume, we can help select the best off the shelf rack chassis or other form-factor chassis from an Intel NUC to a SuperMicro rack and implement, integrate, test and modify or add to create the best fit solution including branding and additional bezels
We also will integrate some of our modular standard product lines (Nucleus short depth racks) along with off the shelf components into a custom deployable mobile rack with optional customized I-O and mounting. In particular, we specialize in 360VR, audio visual recording/streaming use cases in the AV industry, event production, and government deployment with a focus on reducing size and weight.

Systems engineering services

Combined with our software performance optimization services, our systems engineering team will help determine the best possible processors (Intel or AMD), chipsets, motherboard form factors, memory, GPU cards, RAID controllers, SSDs and other I-O to ensure you have an optimal performance and cost reduced systems architecture.
Our specialty is performance optimized I-O (video and network data), recording/streaming, high performance processing and co-processing in small packages

Roadmap, and EOL management

Environmental engineering services

To complement our systems engineering services, we will tune the best combination thermal profile/cooling with reduced acoustics management using combinations of efficient air cooling and/or customized liquid cooling.
For portable or small form factor and deployable appliances, we have years of expertise in packaging individual elements of system to ensure everything remains secure and optionally do vibration and drop testing.
We design and fabricate shipping boxes and packaging, optional soft bags, and customized inserts for hard cases.
We offer safety and emissions certifications, either quoted up front or amortized over the first run of appliance builds.

Production services

We offer turnkey application builds inclusive of your software install, configuration and full regression testing
Optional branding of BIOS screens, OS background screens, and appliance logos via silkscreen
Private label packing slips
Turnkey appliance drop shipment options to your resellers or customers
Consignment services, build to stock, drop ship to releases the same day
Logistics services for service providers to refresh systems returned from a service engagement, re-image, re-test, update and restock for the next service release
Shipment tracking and customs management for international shipments

Creative business models

We focus on small, medium-run volume business cases, generally under 2000 per year and as small as 50 per year.
We are very effective at fast time to market design build process
Tooling, certification costs can be amortized over an initial production run to minimize any up front NRE costs.
Manage your cash flows and produce profits right from the start - business models can be structured with no up-front costs, only billable when we ship your appliances or even extended terms for consignment hold for credit qualified customers

Repair and customer engineering support services

No Minimum volume requirements

Private labeling of system and bag

Configuration control management for your configurations including BIOS and OS changes and settings, software application installation / testing / tuning and revision control, 3rd party I-O card and management

Acoustic noise tuning based on your needs

Customization of rugged travel cases for specific accessories

Integration of your specific I-O cards and software

For OEMs, ISVs, and integrators selling a service/ appliance

Roadmap/EOL management

Product platform engineering services

Drop shipments and branded packing slips

Full 2nd level technical support of 3rd party or customer products

Logistics services to re-image/re-fresh systems

Create/maintain ISO image for your OS/application and recovery disks

Systems engineering services to optimize application(s) for best performance

At certain minimum volumes

Platform customization such as specific hardware integration and chassis color/branding

Certification services (CE, safety, emissions)

Thermal testing

Vibration and drop testing

Electrical design/build services of I-O or other circuit boards

Customized marketing collateral and branded service/setup documentation

Systems engineering, production, and service/support so you can optionally go virtual with no-touch on the hardware to reduce costs and increase operating margins

More Information

Customization & Services Overview Datasheet

Manufacturing ODM / OEM Appliances

Your brand, software, concept, design / build team; our perfect appliance solution.