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Welcome to OakFab

OakFab is a product design firm specializing in prototype fabrication and embedded systems engineering.

Located in Oakland, California

OakFab

OakFab is a specialty product design firm with a focus on first-time-through prototype manufacturing. We bring together a diverse cohort of thoughtful and experienced interdisciplinary specialists to help clients design, build, and bring to market original creations and novel inventions.

Our team excels at developing fully integrated software and hardware solutions for bespoke electronic devices. Recent projects have included therapuetic/medical devices, network-enabled consumer/enterprise electronics, software-enabled information appliances, and more.

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Original
Hardware Design

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Custom
Software Development

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Cloud / Wireless
Systems Integration

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Prototype
Fabrication

If your idea is hardware-only and doesn't require any electronics integration then it might be a great fit for our sister company OakLabs.co which specializes in digital fabrication for the art, fashion, furniture, and consumer/enterprise hardware.

Areas of Expertise

What we do...

Harware Engineering

3D CAD Modeling

OakFab's Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Design teams will take your idea and bring it into digital reality. Whether starting with a description, sketch, or mockup, clients can walk away with a fully dimensioned model of their product, enclosure, accessories, or packaging made-to-order.

Printed Circuit Board Design

Our Electrical Engineering team can design and build an original printed circuit board layout for your next network-enabled device or embedded system. Whether starting with a description or mockup, you can walk away with a fully functional prototype board and layout schematic.

Software Engineering

Embedded Systems Development

Our team of backend engineers will design and develop custom firmware to run on your embedded system or network-enabled device. OakFab's software core competencies span from the microprocessor-level all the way up to the cloud. Our developers can guide your team through frontend design, backend data-modeling, and containerized deployment of server applications.

User Interface / User Experience Design

Our team of product designers and frontend engineers will work with you to define, test, and validate the desired user experience for your product. Whether your device is push-button/knob operated or requires an integrated touch screen interface, OakFab's team can help you deliver a user experience that is just right for your target consumers.

Product Manufacturing

Supply Chain Design

Our team of logistics specialists will analyze sourcing alternatives and recommend an optimal approach to appropriately procure materials and supply build processes in accordance with your mission, values, and budget.

Production Build Planning

Our operations management team will work with you to define, validate, and document the standard operating procedures required to build your product repeatably at scale.

Alpha / Beta
Prototype Fabrication

The OakFab Production team is properly resourced for on-shore fabrication of fully functinoal alpha/beta prototype units assembled locally. Our team utlizes a combination of decentralized local manufacturing partners and in-house resources to deliver the capacity needed to build, package, and ship your product.

Quality Control / Quality Assurance Testing

Our Quality Control and Quality Assurance teams will work with you throughout the Production Planning and Manufacturing process to validate and continuously improve the performance of your build processes and your product.

Recent Projects

Check out some of our latest creations

LED Matrix Table

An interactive LED matrix table complete with a suite of games and animations

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LED enabled Acrylic Signage

A colorful backlit acrylic sign dontated to the East Bay non-profit Rubicon Programs

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Bartop Arcade

Two Player Gaming System

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LEDmePlay

An interactive gaming console based on the LEDmePlay project created by Mithotronic

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Our Clients

OakFab has been honored to work with the following clients

Our Process

Step 1: Strategy

First, our team will work with you to conceptualize a feasible path to implementation and create a high-level illustration of the most important moving pieces.

Step 2: Design

Next, the OakFab team will work closely with you to understand the physical details, order of operations, and logical organization of every critical component of your prospective product. Our designers will help to bring shape, color, and structure to bear on what future consumers might ultimately see.

Step 3: Sourcing

Third, our supply chain specialists will analyze the marketplace and reconcile high-level concepts and ideas with quantifiable data in order assess the cost of execution in the real world.

Step 4: Implementation

Fouth, our team will plan and manage how, when, and where to execute physical assembly, software development, and hardware integration.

Step 5: Evaluation

As a final measure, our team will work with you to ensure that prototype hardware and software integrate seamlessly to perform in line with the defined specifications, and to formally document the components / procedure as delivered.

Contact Us

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Where to Find Us

344 20th St
Oakland, CA
94612 US

OakFab
Email Us At

Email: info@oakfab.com

Call Us At

Phone: +1 (510) 995-6255