Hardware is mostly logistics.
The hard part is rarely the schematic. It is the BOM, the lead time, the customs filing, and the second sourcing. So we treat operations as engineering work.
A small Hong Kong hardware firm, run by people who like the boring parts.
Queen Lee was set up to do one thing well: make hardware programmes legible to the people paying for them, and reliable for the people building them. We are not a broker. We are not a consultancy. We are the team you call when the schedule has to mean something.
What we believe — and how it shows up in the work.
Beliefs are easy to write down. We try to make ours visible in deliverables, contracts, and the way we communicate when something is going wrong.
Bad news travels first.
If a part is going to slip, you hear about it the day we know — not the week it was supposed to ship. Painful in the short run, cheaper in the long run.
Document for the next person.
Every routing, fixture, and rework instruction is written for the engineer who hasn't been hired yet. Tribal knowledge is a debt we refuse to take on.
Cost reduction is a programme, not an event.
Real savings come from yield, not from haggling. We run quarterly cost-down reviews against measured defect data, not vendor pressure.
Stay small enough to care.
We cap the number of programmes per programme manager. If we don't have capacity, we say so — even when it costs us a contract.
Hong Kong, deliberately.
The free port, the shipping links, the legal system, and one-hour access to the Pearl River Delta supply chain — Hong Kong is still the right place to do this work.
A timeline of decisions, not a timeline of titles.
We don't believe brand histories are very interesting. So this is a list of choices we made, with the reasoning intact.
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decision / 01
Set up in San Po Kong.
A working district, near the airport, ten minutes from MTR, twenty from the border. It is where you go when you need things to actually leave the building.
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decision / 02
Refuse to broker.
Brokerage rewards opacity. We always disclose factory identity to the customer. Margin comes from engineering value, not from hiding the supply chain.
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decision / 03
Hire process engineers, not salespeople.
Our second hire was a process engineer. Our tenth hire was also a process engineer. Sales follows from the work, not the other way around.
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decision / 04
Publish written status, every Friday.
Not a dashboard, not a slide deck — a written paragraph per programme. If a status update is hard to write, that's the signal to look closer.
Where we stand on the things people don't usually ask.
Compliance, ethics, environment. The short version is below — the long version is available on request, with audit trails attached.
Quality system
ISO 9001-aligned QMS, with documented procedures for incoming inspection, in-process control, and outgoing quality assurance — auditable end-to-end.
Responsible sourcing
We require RBA-aligned conduct from production partners and provide RoHS, REACH, and conflict-mineral declarations on every BOM we ship.
Data & IP
NDAs by default. CAD, schematics, and firmware are stored on access-controlled repositories with full audit trails. We never send raw IP to a quote network.
Want to see how a programme is actually run?
We'll walk you through a redacted weekly status, a sample DFM report, and a real yield Pareto from a recent ramp. No NDA needed for the format itself.