Manufacturing

The PBN Manufacturing Team is totally dedicated to producing world-class products for the broadband industry globally.  PBN embraces manufacturing efficiencies to ensure that customers are provided with high quality products that offer real value for money.  In addition, PBN is totally focused on providing customers with attractive delivery lead times.

Through many years of success in business, PBN recognises that for Australian manufacturing companies to compete in an extremely competitive and constantly changing communications industry globally, it must continually evaluate its operations, implement strategies and create continuous improvement programs.

PBN’s manufacturing team is responsible for generating efficiencies in purchasing and supply management.  The team is in charge of manufacturing our highly successful products catalogue and OEM products.  The team comprises of a well balanced mix of experienced full time and part time staff.  PBN provides its staff with ongoing learning opportunities to ensure that the staff maintain and improve upon their knowledge base and skill set.  The flexibility and strengths of the company are enhanced by the dedicated teams.  The staff in America, Australia, China and Europe work together very closely to ensure constant cooperation and competence.

PBN maintains a range of manufacturing capabilities to meet the needs of existing and new customers.  The company utilises a Material Requirements Planning (MRP) system, which is a very useful tool for the smooth progress of production planning; materials and inventory control; and manufacturing processes.  The system provides a seamless flow of information starting from the sale through to delivery.

PBN utilises a 120 channel matrix DTS-C, incorporating advanced digital processing equipment and multi channel RF generator.  This combination permits full automatic distortion measurements and cross modulation.  Descriptive second order and desired third order measurements can be made - including measurements for CNR and HUM inter-modulation in both analogue and digital carriers between 5~1000 MHz.

Optical measurement systems used for power, wavelength, reflection and distortion for all lasers, receivers and EDFAs are employed, so are, advanced high speed data testing systems for 10/100/1000 Mbps FTTx applications.

PBN's manufacturing boasts:

• Comprehensive manufacturing, testing and system configuration capabilities.
• RF products, 5 MHz ~ 2 GHz.
• Optical products - amplifiers, laser transmitters, receivers, filters, modulators, WDM and couplers.
• Data 100/1000 Mbps optical transmission products - VoIP and FTTx.
• HFC and FTTx nodes and headend products.

PBN has built a strong reputation throughout the industry by the successful commercialisation of products.  Not all networks are the same.  There is a significant need for technology and products to suit specific individual requirements and budgets.  PBN has been tailoring systems for customers for many years.  This experience provides PBN with an added advantage over its competitors in offering a wide range of customised products and at the same time support the output of large product volumes.  An important strategy in the product development cycle is ensuring products are able to accommodate a wide range of interface standards.