OWON company film — factory, products and the people behind them

A five-minute tour of Xiamen OWON: the Lilliput Group and its brands, the smart energy gateway architecture, R&D, the SMT line, the display clean room, quality and in-house tooling.

What the film covers

Chapter by chapter — so you can jump to the part you need, and so the content is readable without watching.

1. 00:07

   The group and its two brands

   The film opens on the Lilliput Group, its two brands Lilliput and OWON, and OWON Smart Life, the group division based in Canada that designs home energy management systems and smart home devices.

2. 00:38

   Where OWON fits

   Smart energy and IoT in one product mix: catalogue products plus customised solutions for utilities, contractors, distributors and home builders.

3. 01:01

   One gateway, one system

   A smart energy gateway with swappable communication modules puts smart meters, energy devices and home automation components on the same home area network, then bridges all of it to the cloud with two-way messaging.

4. 01:25

   Cloud and apps

   What the platform does with the data: monitoring and remote control of home energy use from outside the property.

5. 01:40

   Sister businesses

   OWON Smart Test, the digital oscilloscope business, and Lilliput Electronics, which builds small colour LCDs and embedded computers.

6. 02:04

   Inside R&D

   In-house PCB layout with CAD tools, mechanical enclosure design, embedded firmware development and debugging on a ZigBee development system, and factory engineering support.

7. 02:53

   The production floor

   Line layout built for flow, surface-mount assembly on a Panasonic pick-and-place line, and hand-soldered through-hole parts with lead-free solder and fume extraction.

8. 03:44

   Displays and clean room

   Touch-sensitive LCD assembly in a pressurised clean room with controlled air scrubbing.

9. 04:00

   Quality and traceability

   Calibration and incoming-inspection laboratories, computer-controlled testing of every unit at final assembly, and serial number engraving on each enclosure.

10. 04:44

    Tooling in house

    Hard-steel tooling and injection-moulded enclosures designed, tested and certified in house instead of being subcontracted.

Key takeaways

• Gateway-first architecture: metering, energy devices and home automation share one home area network and one cloud link.
• Two ways to buy: catalogue products, or customised solutions for utilities, contractors, distributors and home builders.
• Vertical integration: PCB design, firmware, enclosure tooling, SMT assembly, the display clean room and final test are all in house.
• Per-unit traceability: every device is tested under computer control and carries an engraved serial number.
• The film is narrated in English and ships with an English caption track, so it also works with the sound off.

For the company profile and certifications, see About OWON ; for the product range, see Products .

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