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

21ST CENTURY SOLUTIONS FOR 21ST CENTURY NEEDS

Electronics manufacturing in North America and Europe is in trouble. Plants are closing and jobs exported to Asia. The traditional approaches don't work anymore. Traditional workmanship criteria are too inefficient and inspection too unreliable. Training doesn't equip people to meet the efficiency and reliability requirements of the 21st Century . Survival requires radically different approaches. Electronics Manufacturing Sciences is the source for those new approaches.

Electronics Manufacturing Sciences provides unique education and process improvement services that make electronics assembly companies more profitable by increasing efficiency and product reliability. We guarantee a tangible measurable first year R.O.I. of at least 200% but 400% to 2,000% is the normal range. Total R.O.I. of 5,000% is not unusual.

Since 1981, our clients have included many of the most respected names in the electronics industry throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. Many of our clients supply automotive and telecom customers that demand maximum reliability as well as lowest price.

EMS Science of Electronics Manufacturing

The key to our clients’ success is EMS Science of Soldering that combines technical education, business strategies and communication techniques not available anywhere else. We do not train — we educate and clarify. We strip away the jargon and myths that make electronics manufacturing needlessly complicated. We use experiments, demonstrations and problem–solving. We help our clients’ personnel communicate more effectively among themselves and with their clients. We transform the way our clients understand and conduct their businesses.

EMS Science of Electronics Manufacturing consists of 5 interlocking modules covering all functions of electronics manufacturing from executive management to assembly operations:

Every project employs tools from the 5 EMS Science of Electronics Manufacturing modules but the combination of tools and implementation is customized to meet the unique characteristics of each client.

For more information about how EMS Science of Electronics Manufacturing can help your company, write to jcairns@emsciences.com or call 727–866–6502 ext. 52.

If a customer buys your product and isn't happy, he can probably send it back for a refund. We think that's a good policy, so we apply it to our workshops. If you are not satisfied, we won't charge you. We've operated on this basis for more than 25 years. No client has ever asked not to pay. We also believe in return on investment and promise to deliver at least 200% R.O.I. within the first year. Typical returns are many times greater and all our projects have far exceeded the minimum target. Those are benefits that will continue to flow in year after year, long after our involvement has ended. Benefits are calculated using hard quantifiable improvements against a baseline agreed on by the client at the start of our activities. Significant but hard to measure benefits such as happier customers due to better product reliability are not included in the calculations.