JN White
Delivering Best-in-Class Membrane Switch Products

Today, consumers across industries demand robust and reliable features like sensor systems, keypads, and touchscreens in their electronic devices. This can only be achieved with specialized design, latest printing technologies, and industry expertise.

As design and precision manufacturing experts of flexible hybrid electronics, JN White, helps electronic device producers create user-interface components in innovative ways. The company is a premier ISO and ITAR-certified manufacturer of best-in-class membrane switches and membrane switch assemblies for complex user interfaces. JN White also designs and manufactures graphic overlay products, and has extensive experience producing labels and decals for extreme environments.

Its value-added services include manufacturing, engineering, rapid prototyping, membrane switch and complex user interface assembly, testing, product qualification programs, and vendor-managed inventory. JN White helps engineering departments and professionals explore new methods of utilizing existing materials, processes, and technological advancements through digital and screen-printing technology.

“We innovate new solutions for age-old problems using new materials, novel backlighting technology, rigid component attachment on flexible substrates, and innovations in the printing of conductive inks,” says Jason Aymerich, President of JN White.

To deliver best-in-class products in each category, JN White invests in the best equipment to perfect its craft. It strategically deploys various resources to yield a superior and differentiated product. For example, its proprietary combination of digital and screen printing (on the same part) can achieve near-photographic fidelity graphics with the opaqueness and durability of screen-printed inks and coatings.

Utilizing membrane switch production innovations, JN White can print conductive silver inks with a high degree of accuracy and reliability.

This allows creating switches with finer pitch and less resistance, broadening the range of solutions and shrinking the products’ potential footprint. In addition, its deployment of pick-and-place, along with a novel Z-axis conductive epoxy, enables automatic dispensing and affixing of domes, LEDs, and other IC componentry.

JN White employs strong engineering and design disciplines across multiple industries to deliver world-class user interface components. Though no immediate correlation exists between design for DoD and the medical device industry, many applied rules are the same. The two require robustness, ease of cleaning, tactile gloved actuation, and environmentally sealed/protected componentry. By applying knowledge garnished in one industry, the company propels another.

The clients’ success stories are a testament to the value JN White drives for them. For example, a company developing an innovative biofeedback product struggled to achieve quality and consistency for their membrane switch. In addition, the previous vendor they worked with didn’t deliver the necessary support. JN White approached the task with a collaborative mindset and a fresh perspective to move the project into concepts and prototypes. JN White then delivered the design, production, and assembly support to ensure the full-scale launch.

JN White has helped many similar clients through a resource-based approach and finds new ways to utilize its equipment, staff, and ISO 9001:2015 quality system to better solutions and outcomes.

The company also creates awareness through blog posts, “lunch and learns,” speaking engagements at industry events, and one-on-one consultations. JN White establishes credibility in their approach and solutions, and provides clients with more tools to solve their problems.

JN White continues to invest in technology, including infrastructure and equipment, to stay on the industry’s leading edge. It can examine problems through a distinctive lens, offering new solutions to a mature product line. As flexible electronics and distributed computing systems, including IoT, become mainstream, JN White will innovate how products are created, making the impossible, possible.