What we're looking for.
SFbei is a permanent showroom, not a marketplace, so the floor plan is a shopping list. These are the 12 product categories we want represented at 1070 Bryant, broken into 181 sub-categories with a note on what a strong display looks like in each. If you make one of these, we want to hear from you.
If it goes into a
machine, we want it.
Components, sub-systems and the process suppliers who make them. Anywhere in the world, at any volume, as long as you can tell us where it is made.
Three floors and roughly 7,000 square feet is a finite amount of shelf. We are filling it deliberately rather than first-come-first-served, because the value of the building to a visiting engineer is depth in a category: five credible reducer suppliers on one aisle is worth more than fifty unrelated companies spread across three floors.
So this page is the plan. Every category below is one we intend to fill, and every sub-category under it is a specific shelf we would like somebody to own. Some are already spoken for by founding-cohort applicants. Most are wide open.
You do not have to fit a listing exactly. If your product is adjacent to one of these, apply anyway and say which line you are closest to. The categories are a map, not a filter.
Twelve categories, 181 sub-categories.
Each one opens a page listing exactly what we would like on that shelf, and what a display in that category needs to be useful to a buyer standing in front of it.
Robots & robotic systems
Arms, mobile bases, grippers and the machines built around them
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Actuators & motion
Servos, steppers, reducers, screws, rails and pneumatics
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Sensors & perception
Vision, lidar, encoders, force, and everything that measures
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Edge computing & embedded
Compute modules, industrial PCs, accelerators and carriers
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Electronics & interconnect
Connectors, cable, PCBs, passives and everything in between
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Power & energy
Cells, packs, BMS, supplies, converters and charging
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Industrial automation & control
PLCs, drives, safety, conveyors and the cabinets behind them
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Smart home & IoT
Radios, hubs, switches, locks, sensors and connected products
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Mechanical hardware
Bearings, rails, fasteners, seals, springs and structures
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Materials & manufacturing
Machining, moulding, sheet metal, finishing and materials
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Displays & human interface
Screens, touch, switches, knobs, haptics and audio
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Hand tools and power tools
Hand tools, power tools, test instruments, metrology and workshop equipment
See the list →Four things
we look at.
We review every application by hand and reply either way. These are the things that decide it, in roughly this order.
Provenance
Tell us where the product is actually manufactured. This is the one thing we are strict about, because it is the biggest single reason American procurement teams refuse to buy from an unfamiliar supplier.
Something to touch
A display works when a buyer can pick the part up, mate the connector, feel the detent or watch the cell run. Catalogues on a wall do not convert, and we will push you towards working samples.
Real numbers
Duty-cycle curves, derating at temperature, tolerances held in production, cycle life. Peak figures without conditions are the fastest way to lose a Bay Area engineer's attention.
Reachability
A named engineering contact, their time zone and working language, and a realistic lead time. Your SFbei address and US phone number cover the rest.
Everything
on the list.
All 181 sub-categories in one place. Find yours, then apply against the category it sits in.
Robots & robotic systems
- Six-axis industrial arms
- Collaborative arms
- SCARA and delta robots
- Cartesian and gantry systems
- Autonomous mobile robots
- AGVs, tuggers and lifts
- Humanoid and legged platforms
- Grippers and end effectors
- Vacuum, Gripsters and handling
- Tool changers and couplers
- Robot controllers and pendants
- Collision protection and compliance
- Cells, fencing and safety
- Palletising and packaging cells
- Drones and field robots
Actuators & motion
- Servo motors and drives
- Stepper motors and drivers
- Frameless and direct-drive motors
- Strain-wave and cycloidal reducers
- Planetary and worm gearboxes
- Ball and lead screws
- Linear guides and rails
- Electric linear actuators
- Pneumatic cylinders and valves
- Vacuum generation
- Hydraulics and heavy motion
- Brakes, clutches and dampers
- Couplings and power transmission
- Positioning stages and slides
- Motion controllers and software
Sensors & perception
- Machine vision cameras
- Smart cameras and vision systems
- Lidar and time-of-flight
- Depth and stereo cameras
- Rotary and linear encoders
- Force, torque and load
- Proximity and presence
- Inertial and navigation
- Temperature and thermal
- Pressure, flow and level
- Environmental and gas
- Current and voltage sensing
- Safety sensing
- Acoustic and ultrasonic
- Sensor interfaces and IO-Link
Edge computing & embedded
- Compute modules and SoMs
- Carrier and baseboards
- Single-board computers
- Fanless industrial PCs
- AI accelerators and modules
- Embedded GPUs and vision SoCs
- Microcontrollers and RTOS boards
- FPGA and SoC boards
- Industrial networking
- Wireless and cellular modules
- Storage and memory
- Edge gateways and protocol bridges
- Thermal for compute
- Enclosures and EMC for electronics
- Displays and HMI for embedded
Electronics & interconnect
- Circular and industrial connectors
- Board-to-board and wire-to-board
- High-current and power connectors
- RF and coaxial
- Cable assemblies and harnesses
- Wire, cable and sleeving
- Printed circuit boards
- PCB assembly
- Passive components
- Semiconductors and power devices
- Relays, contactors and switchgear
- EMC components
- LEDs, optoelectronics and lasers
- Terminal blocks and panel components
- Antennas and RF modules
Power & energy
- Lithium cells
- Battery packs and modules
- Battery management systems
- Chargers and charging systems
- AC/DC power supplies
- DC/DC converters
- Supercapacitors and buffers
- Uninterruptible power and backup
- Inverters and motor drives
- Solar, fuel cells and generation
- Power distribution and busbars
- Wiring, grounding and protection
- Energy storage systems
- Power measurement and metering
- Cooling for power electronics
Industrial automation & control
- PLCs and remote I/O
- Industrial HMIs and panels
- Variable frequency drives
- Safety controllers and relays
- Conveyors and material handling
- Feeders and part presentation
- Machine framing and structures
- Guarding and enclosures
- Pneumatic systems
- Process instrumentation
- Dispensing and joining
- Inspection and quality automation
- Cleanroom and controlled environments
- MRO and consumables
- Integration and engineering services
Smart home & IoT
- Wireless modules and SoCs
- Matter and Thread devices
- Smart switches and dimmers
- Smart locks and access
- Cameras and video doorbells
- Sensors for buildings
- Thermostats and HVAC control
- Lighting and drivers
- Robot vacuums and home robotics
- Kitchen and appliance modules
- Energy and EV charging for the home
- Audio and voice hardware
- Wearables and personal devices
- Gateways and hubs
- Consumer enclosures and finishing
Mechanical hardware
- Bearings
- Linear motion components
- Fasteners
- Springs and dampers
- Seals and gaskets
- Gears and gearing
- Castors, wheels and mounts
- Shafts, couplings and collars
- Aluminium extrusion and framing
- Enclosures and cabinets
- Cable management
- Pipes, fittings and fluid handling
- Magnets and magnetic assemblies
- Hinges, latches and access hardware
- Wear parts and tribology
Materials & manufacturing
- CNC machining
- Injection moulding
- Tooling and mould making
- Sheet metal fabrication
- Casting and forging
- 3D printing and additive
- Extrusion and profiles
- Stamping and forming
- Surface finishing
- Engineering plastics
- Metals and alloys
- Composites
- Adhesives, sealants and coatings
- Contract manufacturing
- Packaging and logistics
Displays & human interface
- LCD modules
- OLED and micro-display
- E-paper and reflective displays
- Touch panels and bonding
- Panel PCs and monitors
- Switches and keypads
- Rotary encoders and knobs
- Haptics
- Speakers and audio output
- Microphones and voice input
- Indicators and signalling
- Membrane and graphic overlays
- Optical components
- AR, VR and head-mounted
- Industrial input devices
Hand tools and power tools
- Oscilloscopes and analysers
- Power supplies and loads
- Multimeters and handhelds
- Environmental test chambers
- EMC and safety test
- Dimensional metrology
- 3D scanning and inspection
- Force, torque and material test
- Thermal measurement
- Functional test systems
- Calibration and standards
- Soldering and rework
- Hand tools and workshop
- Cutting tools and abrasives
- Jigs, fixtures and workholding
- Vacuum Lifters/ gripsters/ suction cups
The list is a map,
not a fence.
Semiconductor equipment, lab automation, agricultural machinery, marine, packaging, aerospace fasteners, energy storage: if your product ends up inside somebody else's machine, it belongs in this building even if we have not written a line for it yet.
Apply and tell us what you make. If we get three applications for something that is not on this page, it becomes a category.
Find your shelf.
Then take it.
Founding-cohort exhibitors get first choice of floor position, a rate fixed for three years and a named profile in the launch directory.