Organization

Chess is an Original Design Manufacturer (ODM). We develop and produce by order of a brand. Our customers are therefore mostly Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM).

  • Founded in 1988.
  • Over 50 employees.
  • ISO certificated.

 

Chess eT international b.v. is:

  • Innovation
  • Quality
  • Hardware
  • Software
  • Production

Innovation

Chess has been designing and delivering innovative technological products for over 20 years. Multidisciplinary product development by over 50 full time engineers enables Chess to deliver and service complete solutions. To stay ahead Chess does a lot of research, building IP and resulting in patents. Part of this research is done in collaboration with universities as a proud member of DevLab.

Quality

Chess strives for customer satisfaction and long term relationships, these are the main goals. To reach these goals we  maintain our own quality system as an essential component of operations. The implementation of the quality policy is safeguarded by an integrated quality system, certified in accordance with ISO 9001-2008.

By means of annual management reviews, the board ensures that the quality system has the desired effectiveness and that actual ongoing improvement takes place. Subjects discussed here include: annual client reviews, complaint management, annual employee reviews, results of internal and external audits and process and product performances.

 

Hardware

Chess has a full digital analog design environment. We use a Mentor Graphics tool chain, and a DMS components database. This way Chess is fully geared for reuse.

Software

Chess uses a continuous built  software development environment, Agile methodology. There are multiple system architects working at Chess keeping, modeling, validation environment with hardware in the loop.

Production

Chess typically produces products including full supply chain management for mechanical, plastics, electronics and software.

During development, production costs are a point of interest from the very beginning. To reduce the eventual product price, the development focusses on optimizing producability. This goes further than getting the best price for high quality parts, reducing production and test time are considered as well.