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International Manufacturing Services Inc. (IMS, Portsmouth, RI), a manufacturer of thick film resistors and substrates to the electronics industry, has announced the appointment of DM Associates Inc. (Columbus, OH) as the company's representative in the states of Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan and western Pennsylvania.
DM Associates is a manufacturer's representative in the central U.S. with sales offices in Columbus and Cleveland, OH, and Indianapolis and South Bend, IN.
IMS also recently announced the availability of lead-free compatible thick film chip resistor components for customers transitioning to lead-free circuit assembly. The products feature lead-free end terminal metallizations designed for compatibility with all lead-free alloys and flux systems currently available.
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Preco Electronics (Morton, Illinois), an electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider serving middle-market original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), announced the launch of its plan to incorporate six sigma principles throughout the company. Recently, the senior management of Preco attended a weeklong program to understand more about integrating six sigma into the company's existing lean philosophies.
While the existing lean manufacturing initiatives have eliminated waste and improved performance at the Morton facility for the past four years, six sigma provides tools to utilize process data in all areas of the business to reduce variation in execution and improve quality while reducing costs to the customer.
The unification of
these philosophies will provide Preco Electronics with: an evolving
framework to insure that customer critical requirements are understood
and operation focus is developed to address them; a program to identify
the root cause of issues and process inefficiencies and solve them
permanently; and a data-driven culture based on continuous improvement.
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The International Microelectronics and Packaging Society (IMAPS) announced that Alec J. Babiarz, senior vice president and a founder of Asymtek (Carlsbad, CA) will be the keynote speaker at the 37th International Symposium on Microelectronics to be held Nov. 14-18, 2004, in Long Beach, CA.
Babiarz also serves as vice president, new business development for Nordson Corp., Asymtek's parent company. Since 1983, Babiarz and Asymtek co-founders Robert Ciardella and Philip Maiorca have built the company from a small operation into a manufacturer of dispensing equipment worldwide. In 2004, Asymtek received Intel's highest honor for its suppliers, the Supplier Continuous Quality Improvement Award.
"We are very pleased that Alec accepted our invitation," said Maurice Lowery, IMAPS 2004 General Chair. "Alec's experience and insight with Asymtek—and as an IMAPS Corporate member—make him the ideal candidate to provide the information our attendees are looking for. His first-hand involvement from the very beginning gives him the credibility we need to help guide the principals in other companies through the successful growth process."
Asymtek supplies automated fluid dispensing systems, specializing in semiconductor, surface-mount and electronics packaging applications.
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