The EMS Guarantee

We believe clients should pay only for results. If we can't increase our clients' profits, we shouldn't be paid. That's why we guarantee a tangible measurable first year R.O.I. of at least 200%. More than 400% is the usual result. Annual R.O.I. of 1,000% is common.

In this era of budget constraints, many clients are choosing to hire us through a partnership arrangement rather than a fixed fee. The partnership benchmarks existing measurable costs at the start of the project and pays us a minor portion of the savings for the first year. Although the cost reductions continue year after year, we only share in them for the first year.

My experience has been that EMS is certainly not a run of the mill "specialized consulting" group that comes in with some repackaged current concepts and buzz words to invigorate a stale manufacturing environment.

Their wealth of experience in very diverse electronics applications is demonstrated as they point out broken, unnecessary, and even counter productive processes that we walk by and neglect in our day to day operations.

No matter how good you are or how good you might think you are at electronics manufacture, I recommend you walk around your plant with a clipboard beside an EMS "doctor" and I can assure you that you will generate a list of issues that will make you better if you have the will to address them.

Ed Rohlfs
Vice President, Global Quality and Customer Satisfaction
ADTRAN, Inc.
Huntsville, AL

Electronics Manufacturing Sciences provides unique education and process improvement services that make electronics assembly companies more profitable by increasing efficiency and product reliability. Since 1981 we have helped leading electronics industry names throughout the world.

We specialize in meeting the high reliability requirements of automotive, telecom, aerospace, defense, and medical electronics without the cost overheads normal in those businesses. Of course, we also deliver significant increases in efficiency and reliability of consumer electronics companies.

We emphasize the soldering process because soldering is the heart of electronics manufacturing and the cause of the most avoidable costs (including inspection, test and rework/touchup/repair). Our EMS Science of Soldering© has been the most effective way to increase efficiency and reliability for more than a quarter century but is constantly revised as we find even more effective ways to teach.

We deliver technical knowledge using demonstrations, experiments and problem–solving exercises that everyone can understand and use. Then we provide hands–on help with process improvements using that knowledge. We also offer educational materials that the client's own personnel use to teach hourly employees.

Above all, we make our clients self–sufficient so they do not need to continue relying on us.

And we do it all — including certifications in all IPC standards — at our clients' bases. There's no need for clients to leave home.

The Traditional Electronics Manufacturing Model is Broken

Since the traditional inspection and touchup/rework model used by the electronics industry for more than 50 years drives up costs and kills product reliability, we bring fresh ways of looking at the electronics industry. Those ways are designed for the realities of modern electronics rather than the conventional wisdom carried over from the days of vacuum tubes.

In today’s global markets, prosperity requires being better than the competition. That’s not possible by using industry “standard” practices such as training and workmanship documents. So we constantly challenge the conventional thinking to find ways our clients can become world leaders in efficiency and reliability.

3 Decades of Innovations

Some important innovations include:

• Pioneering work in no–clean fluxes. Electronics Manufacturing Sciences clients were the first automotive and telecom electronics manufacturers to use no–clean fluxes.

• Optimizing Quality in Electronics Assembly, the 1996 book that transformed the way quality is understood and managed.

• Rejection of the traditional model of inspection, touchup and rework. This is accomplished by replacement training — the approach to operator qualification from the earliest days of electronics manufacturing — with education.  Replacing operator training with education. Training emphasizes memorization and requires regular, expensive retraining. Our education requires less than half an hour a year to maintain an operator’s peak performance.

• EMS Science of Soldering©, a straightforward 7–step soldering “recipe” that ensures defect–free results the first time, every time. EMS Science of Soldering© creates common understanding and vocabulary across all levels of the plant community from senior management to engineers to operators and makes elimination of the inspection/touchup/ rework model possible.

• Concise workmanship criteria that are easily understood by anyone. Unlike more complex standards like IPC–A–610, EMS Reliability Criteria© emphasizes practical application and can be mastered almost immediately by anyone.

• Development of a revolutionary yet simple technique that prevents heat damage to components when soldering irons are used.

• Recognizing and warning clients years before the rest of the industry realized that lead–free solders would lead to component fractures.

Maintaining the Lead

Some of our innovations have become standard practices in the years since we introduced them. However, Electronics Manufacturing Sciences clients always enjoy years of competitive advantages before the rest of the world discovers the secrets.

Electronics Manufacturing Sciences will revolutionize the way you approach manufacturing. To find out more, please contact Jim Smith, Managing Director, using this form. Or call +1(727)866–6502, ext 21.