2014
IEC Electronics - Brochure
2012
AME's description of IEC in 2012. AME gave manufacturing excellence award to IEC in 2011
IEC Electronics is a premier provider of electronic manufacturing services to advanced technology companies. It specializes in the custom manufacture of high reliability, complex circuit cards, system level assemblies, a wide array of custom cable and wire harness assemblies, and precision sheet metal. They claim excellence in quality and reliability and in supplying low to medium volume, high-mix production. They utilize state-of-the art, automated circuit card assembly equipment together with a full complement of high reliability manufacturing stress testing methods.
Since 2005, sales have grown by 500%, and gross profit has gone from the red to 17% of sales - - top tier for the industry. The number of unique customer orders moving through the factory on any given day is in excess of 100 assemblies. IEC Electronics was a 2011 AME Manufacturing Excellence Award recipient!
Article by Don Doody - Executive Vice President - IEC
http://www.iec-electronics.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Starting-Over_IEC-Supply-Chain-Viewpoint.pdf
IEC has grown from $19 million operation with 118 employees to $96 million enterprise with 629 employees in four domestic locations.
2010
John Biuso is the process improvement manager at the IEC Electronics Corp. circuit-board assembly plant in Newark, N.Y. IEC's Newark operation was once in danger of imploding. The plant struggled to remain viable as low-cost countries took over production of the motherboards IEC once produced for personal computers.
In 2005 the facility found itself in the unenviable position of improving its operations radically or shutting down. The company chose to diversify its product portfolio and establish lean manufacturing and Six Sigma processes.
IEC moved to a high-mix, low-volume model of primarily build-to-order printed circuit boards for growing industries, including medical device and aerospace and defense manufacturing.Over the five-year transition period, IEC's company-wide sales, led by the Newark plant, increased 500%.
The plant reduced machine changeover times, moved from batch manufacturing to one-piece flow and also focused on product development and in-house capabilities not easily replicated by competitors.
IEC was named as one of the IndustryWeek's 2010 Best Plants
IEC invested $2 million in new automated assembly equipment that cut setup time in half over a three-year period. In the automated assembly, a row of feeders similar to film reels deliver tiny circuit board components seated in carrier tape into the robotic machine that assembles the boards. The new equipment allows the plant to swap out entire feeder racks (that are made ready as an external setup operation) that are kept at lineside. The changeover process now takes approximately five minutes.
There are different "focus factories" dedicated to specific market segments. An area that's helped the plant secure new orders is its prototyping line, a focus factory.
By incorporating such innovative capabilities into its operations, the IEC plant has positioned itself for future growth and given hope.
Source: http://www.industryweek.com/companies-amp-executives/iec-electronics-corp-iw-best-plants-profile-2010
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