What drives us

We love to make new products come to life. We are driven by our own eagerness to explore, create and learn. Every day we strive to stretch ourselves just outside our comfort zone to achieve that. To challenge the status quo and to work, help and improve together.
With our development capabilities, we help our customers to be competitive with new products. We deliver technological creativity, and we navigate through the exciting process of product development.
We always want to cooperate, also under pressure. We work together with our customers and with our partners. Because we know that only through cooperation, great products become reality.
Our ambition

We want to build long term partnerships with our customers and be the go to partner for development, engineering and manufacturing of electronic products.
We want customers to know they can depend on us to guide them through their entire product development process. From draft to prototype to mass production. It’s a huge advantage for them that they don’t have to go to different companies for various phases of the process.
How we work
Our development process is structured in five phases. Each of these phases realize clear deliverables consecutively converging to the project result. The goal of our process is to maximize risk reduction early in the process whilst keeping investment relatively low. As the development risk reduces throughout the process, the investment risk reduces with it. Therefore, major investments are pushed towards the end of the process as much as possible.
Within the phases, we work scrum based in a three-week heartbeat.

Our expertise
It is our core competence to help our customers along the exciting road of developing electronic products, from idea to mass manufacturing. We are highly experienced in the development process and within the field of product development, we specialize in embedded electronics. On a technical level, our main expertise is:
- Embedded systems design
- Internet of things (IoT) devices & Industrial IoT (IIoT)
- Industrial design
- Consumer products design
- Class 2 medical devices
- Electronics hardware design
- Intrinsic safety
- Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC)
- RF design techniques (RED)
- Low power / battery powered applications
- 3D form factor integration
- Sensors
- Vision (camera’s, IR)
- Sound / ultrasound (microphones, speakers)
- Motion (IMU’s)
- Actuators
- Communication (RF, Bluetooth/BLE, WiFi, LTE, NB-IoT)
- Localization techniques (BT, RF)
- User interfaces (displays, touch screens, tactile, etc)
- Embedded software development (C, Linux based, RTOS, multi-core)
- Back-end integrations (Cloud)
- Rapid prototyping and proof of concepts
- Industrialization and manufacturing
- Testing & Certification (CE, FCC, UL)
- Project management

How it all started

Founders Nico and Erik both made careers in a corporate environment. This taught them a lot about how to run a business on a large scale. They enjoyed their work but missed the sense of creating something meaningful, something tangible. In 2015 they took the great leap and followed their dream to create products and their own business: Zign Innovations was founded.
Currently we consist of a team of 20+ who all share the same passion: bringing great ideas to market. Our engineers are active in the fields of electronics, embedded software and project management.