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www.us-
tech.com
Seeking EMS Quality and Customer Satisfaction
W
ith operations in Winches- ter, Massachusetts, Palm Bay, Florida, and Zacatecas,
Mexico, MC Assembly is a major contract manufacturer based in Palm Bay with annual revenues of about $200 million. The firm provides manufactur-
ing services for medium-volume printed-circuit-board (PCB) assem- blies and box builds, with capabili- ties that include surface-mount and pin-through-hole technologies. The company also offers PCB and box build design-for-manufacturability (DFM), design-for-test (DFT), and design-for-assembly (DFA) engi- neering, along with in-circuit func- tional and environmental testing, and full box-build and direct-order fulfillment. The company is focused mainly
on aerospace, defense, medical, in- dustrial, and niche telecommunica- tions markets. MC Assembly (
www.mcati.com)
recently received the 20/20 award from Zeiss (
www.zeiss.com), a global leader in the medical technology area, as a top performing supplier of electrical commodities purchased by Zeiss. The award requires near-per- fect on-time delivery and outstand- ing quality score for the applicable 12-month period.
A large production floor handles SMT assembly operations.
products that meet customer specifi- cations, on-time and within budget. MC is supported by superior
supply-chain software tool sets. It uses these tools to aid a customer with such functions as bill of materi- als (BOM) management at any time
MC also employs advanced material planning tools that allow the “mass customization” of specific supply- chain solutions that are tailored to each unique customer profile. Often, multiple solutions may be developed to serve the complex and diverse
Electronic & Engineering Materials
New Digital Mass Flow Controller
By Jake Kulp, Vice-President of Sales & Marketing, MC Assembly, Palm Bay, FL MC’s medical products can be
found in medical applications around the world, including in minor emer- gency care, research centers, special- ized women’s health-care services, blood analysis centers, military MASH-type units, and trauma centers. Earning the award requires a commitment to quality and shipping
during the product life cycle. The in- vestment in software tools helps MC to provide customers with numerous electronic manufacturing services (EMS) functions, including BOM op- timization, BOM expansions, restric- tion of hazardous substances (RoHS) conversions, end-of-life management, and obsolescence parts management.
needs of a single client. MC has made a strategic deci-
sion to offer design for excellence (DFx) engineering services free of charge for production clients, in con- trast to many companies that charge nonrecurring engineering (NRE) fees for DFx engineering support servic- es. By not charging for these servic- es, the company intends to have fo- cused customers take advantage of the services, allowing it to fully serv- ice customers with long product life cycles typical of many of the compa- ny’s markets.
Globally Competitive With the “scalability” of its
EMS capabilities in its two domestic and low-cost-regional central Mexico facility, MC Assembly is globally competitive. The MC Mexico facility provides competitive labor without sacrificing inventory time or cash-to- cash cycles, and helps an OEM re- main flexible in terms of delivery schedules. The MC Mexico facility takes advantage of an extremely sta- ble central Mexico workforce with ex- tremely low turnover, which many clients find quite attractive. MC Assembly works with every
client with a goal of “zero defect” manufacturing, even though many
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July, 2014
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