05/26/2026
If you're sourcing control components overseas right now, your development costs just went up — again.
Tariffs on Chinese electronics are hitting 30–54%. PCB lead times have stretched from 6 weeks to 6 months in some categories. And the cost of building a custom control platform from scratch keeps climbing.
Most cooking appliance OEMs underestimate control development costs by 40–60% once you factor in firmware engineering, compliance testing, field failures, and delayed launches.
Kitchen Brains has been the embedded controls partner for leading commercial cooking appliance OEMs for 50+ years. Here's what that means for your next product launch:
- A proven logic library — so you're not engineering from zero
- Custom solutions configured fast
- US-engineered and manufactured — insulated from overseas supply chain risk
- 52 US patents built on 50+ years of real commercial kitchen challenges
We're not a component supplier. We're the development partner that compresses your engineering cycle and gives you a scalable control platform across your entire product line.
Let's talk: https://bit.ly/4dGIVGp