A permanent trade show for hardware.
The Huaqiangbei of San Francisco. Three floors of servos, sensors, screens and robot arms — displayed by the suppliers who make them, open every day of the year, fifteen minutes from your bench.
A trade show
that never ends.
Trade shows work. The problem is that they last three days, happen once a year, and are usually six thousand miles away. You fly home with a tote bag of catalogs and a jet-lagged memory of booth 4C.
SFbei keeps the part that works — thousands of real products on real shelves, next to the people who make them — and leaves it running every day of the year, in the middle of San Francisco.
An engineer walks in on a Tuesday with a bracket that needs a motor and leaves with three quotes in motion. A purchasing manager compares six vendors' connectors by picking them up. That is the whole idea.
Walk in with a problem. Leave with a supplier.
Walk in
Free for builders once you've pre-registered. No appointment, no badge fee, no booth staff blocking the aisle.
Touch the inventory
Physical displays, sample units, catalogs and spec sheets. Pick it up, measure it, feel the detent on the switch.
We introduce you
Our staff connect you to the right person at the supplier — right contact, right time zone, right language.
You deal direct
Quotes, samples, terms and POs happen between you and the supplier. No markup, no middleman, no cut.
From the screw
to the six-axis arm.
Components and systems for robotics, AI hardware, automation and general industrial supply — displayed by suppliers from Shenzhen to Stuttgart to San Jose.
Motion & actuation
- servos
- steppers
- BLDC motors
- gearboxes
- linear actuators
- harmonic drives
Robotics & automation
- robot arms
- grippers
- end effectors
- AMR platforms
- conveyors
- PLCs
Sensing & vision
- camera modules
- lidar
- ToF
- IMUs
- encoders
- force/torque
Displays & HMI
- LCD
- OLED
- e-paper
- touch panels
- switches
- keypads
Electronics & interconnect
- connectors
- cable assemblies
- PCBs
- passives
- power supplies
- batteries
Mechanical & materials
- enclosures
- extrusion
- fasteners
- bearings
- seals
- sheet metal
Manufacturing services
- CNC
- injection molding
- PCBA / EMS
- 3D printing
- finishing
- tooling
Industrial supply
- hand tools
- workholding
- safety
- adhesives
- consumables
- MRO
Three floors, organized the way you source.
A 1918 industrial building on Bryant Street, rebuilt as a showroom: components at the bottom, systems in the middle, people and process at the top.
Components
Electromechanical parts, interconnect, displays and sensing — the densest floor in the building.
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Robotics & automation
Larger systems on live power: arms, grippers, AMRs, motion rigs and machine-vision cells.
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Meetings & the roof
Sample libraries, private supplier rooms, call booths — and the roof deck where events run.
Explore →Built for the way
your industry sources.
Six industries with very different sourcing problems — and a floor arranged so each of them finds its shelf fast.
Robotics
Harmonic drives, frameless motors, force/torque sensing and grippers — the long-lead parts that decide your arm's schedule.
Sourcing at SFbei →AI hardware
Power delivery, thermal, high-speed interconnect and enclosures for racks, edge boxes and inference appliances.
Sourcing at SFbei →Industrial automation
PLCs, drives, safety, vision, conveyors and the pneumatics that make a line actually run.
Sourcing at SFbei →Medical devices
Documented supply chains: biocompatible materials, cleanroom molding, ISO 13485 partners, traceable lots.
Sourcing at SFbei →Drones & mobility
Propulsion, battery systems, BMS, lightweight structures and the sensing stack for anything that moves.
Sourcing at SFbei →Consumer hardware
Displays, touch, acoustics, injection molding, finishing and packaging — from first hundred to first hundred thousand.
Sourcing at SFbei →Mixers, teardowns
and supplier nights.
The showroom is the constant; the calendar is what makes people come back. Every month we run something on the roof deck or the demo floor — a country delegation, a category deep-dive, a teardown night where three companies open up a competitor's product together.
Free for registered builders. Included for exhibiting suppliers.
Suppliers exhibit.
Builders browse free.
One side pays for a shelf and gets a permanent US presence. The other side walks in free, forever, and gets introduced to whoever makes the part they need. Neither side pays us a commission.
For suppliers
A staffed display on the relevant floor, a listing in the directory, a registered US address, a US phone number and mail forwarding — for a flat annual fee.
Why exhibit →For builders
Free unlimited access after a one-time screening, staff who know the floor, warm introductions and an invitation to everything we run.
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Find your supplier.
Or find your buyers.
The best place for hardware engineers, founders and buyers to find their suppliers — and the best place for suppliers to be seen, in the middle of the world's hub of innovation.