About Us
Visual Communications Company, LLCThe Leader in HMI Components
A broad range of products and customization options
With over 40 years of experience as a global provider, we have the knowledge and the products to satisfy any application or product requirement. Our products stand out thanks to their excellent quality, innovative design, and ease of assembly. Our range of standard components is complemented by our value-added service, in which we offer components and assemblies customized according to a customer’s specific requirements.
Components
VCC manufactures one of the world’s largest ranges of HMI products. Depending on the requirements in terms of environment and function, VCC customers will find the right solution for all applications and industries.
Value-added Services
Value-added services is defined as individually modify our standard components in accordance with our customers’ needs. Depending on the design specifications, environmental requirements, we customize our standard components in close collaboration with our customers.
Assembly and Production
We are driven by the interaction between humans and machines. It is this drive that enables the qualified designers, engineers, and production teams at VCC to develop internationally award-winning components.
A Committed Team Delivering Creative Solutions
VCC, an American, privately held company founded in 1976, has developed into one of the world’s leading manufacturers of HMI Components. With over 200 dedicated employees, VCC has a global production and distribution network at its disposal. And with production sites in North America, as well as our many sales offices and distributors, we can guarantee global availability.
Efficient and modern development processes, a global supply chain, and skilled project management represent additional services that we offer our customers and business partners around the world. Our approach is to take full account of the requirements of humans and machines together with social and industrial trends.
We develop products and solutions that impress our customers with their intuitiveness and their design. Our expertise allows us to manufacture easy-to-operate, high-quality, and future-proof solutions for many applications. At VCC we do much more than just manufacture individual components. As a solution-focused partner, we provide the option of technically customizing existing HMI components in line with our customers’ individual requirements. From simple indicators through to sophisticated PCB assemblies, we are able to offer a comprehensive service that encompasses everything from development through to volume production.
We’re Trusted and Proven
VCC is privately-held and financially strong. We have served some of our customers for decades. While we continue to evolve in terms of global reach and overall capabilities, our commitment to putting customers first remains unchanged. Customers around the world place their trust in our robust experience and comprehensive approach. The results are shown in a long list of customers, of which we are extremely proud. This is the best proof of our expertise, from which you too can benefit.
We are the recognized leader supporting illuminated electronic components for the global markets including aerospace, food service, people movers, transportation, medical, telecom and industrial. We provide custom and standard solutions with our design engineering expertise, superior customer service and the broadest product line in the industry to exceed user experience.
Core Capabilities
A complete North American manufacturer
Manufacturing Expertise
As a manufacturer of electronic components, our expertise in prototyping, tooling, plastics, electrical design, and parts assembly is unsurpassed.
To develop innovative solutions that add significant value to end products, we offer our customers the appropriate expertise:
- Expert engineers and designers
- High-quality and reliable HMI Components
- Lean production knowledge
- Conformance with CE, UL, cUL, RoHS, WEEE, and other standards
- Environmental Management System
Production and Supply Chain
VCC supports you in taking advantage of lower cost production labor while maintaining nearshore responsiveness.
Our North American production sites and distribution warehouses in North America, Europe, and Asia ensure the planning and production of products to ISO 900.
- PCB design and manufacturing
- SMT placement, assembly and inspection
- Cable crimping, cutting, harnessing and final assembly
- Consistent processes at all locations, with integrated supply chain quality measures
Mechanical and Electrical Design
Once specifications have been approved, they form the basis for mechanical and electrical system design.
VCC works closely with you to prepare detailed drawings, parts lists, and circuit schematics. VCC helps you cut development times using rapid prototyping techniques for plastic components and PCBs.
- 3D CAD (Solidworks, AutoCAD)
- PCB design and simulation software
- Gerber file creation for PCB manufacturing
- Rapid prototyping (3D Printing
Quality Assurance
and Testing
VCC has a dynamic total quality management system linked to all areas of our business.
Our products and systems undergo testing to assure reliability, repeatability and a long service life.
- Laboratory tests with appropriate software
- Environmental test chambers (temperature and humidity)
- Compliance to different levels of protection
- Testing the durability of individual components
- Optical simulation and analyses
- Final inspection on all products
Our Partners
Our Values
Our team values are at the core of our business
See Yourself
Be self-aware; your behavior impacts those around you; create positive impact.
See Others
Be together; see beyond your department. We succeed, learn, and fail together. Period.
Always Communicate
Say what needs to be said. Hear what needs to be heard. Do both when they need to be done.
Create Exceptional Value
Every client gets our best. Our best grows VCC.
Deliver Trustworthy Results
Customers get what they want when we promise they will get it. Customers return when they trust results.
Embrace the Journey
Think critically, be innovative, mind the details, don’t settle. All things can be improved.
Market Diversity
Delivering expert solutions to global industry
Our diverse range of standard components combined with our expertise enable us to provide appropriate individual and system-based HMI solutions for a variety of markets. We are a global partner and supplier to industry-leading OEMs in the fields of aviation, transportation, industrial equipment, medical technology, energy technology, automation technology, consumer wearables, and durable goods, as well as in many other markets that involve connection between humans and machines.
At VCC, being an expert means having a deep understanding of all the requirements that our products must meet. Our competence extends to customizing and designing components and to providing manufacturing services according to our customers’ needs. Strategically positioned manufacturing sites and a global sales and distribution network help VCC deliver on a frictionless customer experience, from discovery through production.