Martin Skinner discusses the impact of component miniaturisation on the electronics manufacturing industry in October's issue of Components in Electronics. Read the full article here. ...
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Mastering The NPD Balancing Act
If you’re involved in new product development, you know the balancing act. Product specifications must be met, BOM costs kept to target, unique teams working on different aspects of the design, regulatory approvals and all within a set time-to-market deadline. So how does Corintech walk this tightrope? The team here at Corintech have years of experience and a strong track reco ...
Simplify Your Build Move
"My build is too complex to move, our existing supplier took years to get it right. I don’t want to go through that process again.” “I don’t have the time to deal with getting quotes from a new supplier.” “The cost of moving the job to a new supplier will be prohibitive.” These are just some of the common concerns customers have when looking at their sub-contract requirement ...
The new standard for customer service in electronics, this week in Electronics Specifier
It wasn’t that long ago that industrial and consumer product manufacturing were on two separate ends of the scale. But in today’s world, choice for consumers has started to drive industrial expectation because at the end of the day, everyone is a consumer - even designers, engineers and specifiers. By Pete Cross, MD, Corintech. Consumers today are inundated with choice. Not o ...
UK manufacture (On-shore)
Customer criteria for the manufacture and assembly of electronic circuits varies immensely and here at Corintech we have years of experience in identifying our customers’ requirements and tailoring manufacturing needs to meet those requirements. To keep competitive, electronic assembly needs to take on a global aspect and develop a dynamic approach in understanding that new ma ...
Six reasons why people do not benchmark their suppliers
As a contract electronics manufacturer, I often feel like a buyer’s worst enemy is a mediocre supplier. At least when dealing with a bad supplier it’s obvious there’s a problem making it difficult to ignore or overlook. The real problem comes when dealing with an average supplier: when pricing is average, quality levels only ever cause mild irritation, and delivery and service ...
Close account management - this is how we do it!
What is good Customer Service? In the run up to Christmas, as a retail customer, I received a lot of customer service experience to varying degrees. This made me think about what I believe represents good customer service. In a nutshell I think great customer service stems from effective communication and consistency. If one step of the process falls down, then the whole exper ...
The Importance of Peer Design Reviews
As a business we have recently undergone audits for, and successfully been recommended, for re-accreditation to the AS9100 standard. This is a Quality Management standard for businesses involved in the aerospace industry. Every process at Corintech has been carefully detailed to meet this stringent quality level. Our design process, in-particular, considers the activity of peer ...
Far East Vs UK Electronic Manufacturing Decisions
The past 25 years has seen a dramatic rise in off-shore manufacturing. Low cost material combined with cheap labour and increasing pressures to reduce manufacturing costs back in the UK has convinced many organisations to move production to the Far East. However if a product is to benefit from the opportunities the Far East offers there are numerous factors which must be consi ...