News Release from: Prism Electronics
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 28 June 2005
Gardasoft signs up for manufacturing services
Prism Electronics has secured a contract worth GBP 200,000 per year to produce and assemble all of Gardasoft Vision's product range.
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Flexible manufacturing processes and expertise in planning the transition to using lead-free components has resulted in Prism Electronics securing a contract worth GBP 200,000 per year to produce and assemble all of Gardasoft Vision's product range. Cambridgeshire-based contract electronics manufacturer Prism will produce and assemble seven different product lines for Gardasoft at volumes of between 200 and 300 per year. The products involve a mix of both electronic and mechanical assembly.
Gardasoft, which is also based in Cambridgeshire, produces automatic machine vision systems for the automotive, medical and manufacturing industries.
It needed a manufacturing partner with flexible production processes that could easily accommodate changes to product specifications as designs are updated and is geared to cope with changes to manufactured quantities as sales patterns fluctuate.
The company also needed help with converting all its product range to use lead-free electronic components, which will be required to meet new European legislation next year.
When the Restriction on the use of certain hazardous substances (RoHS) Directive comes into force, certain materials (including lead) which are currently used in the manufacture of products will be banned in Europe.
The transition to lead-free manufacture is proving a complex process for many equipment producers because there is often no direct equivalent for electronic devices.
Also, component manufacturers are at different stages of migration to supplying lead-free, which makes sourcing alternative products time consuming and technically challenging to ensure that a new component will perform in the same way as the old.
At its manufacturing facility, Prism operates a Kanban production system which is ideally suited to responding to sudden changes in product specification or volume.
The company has also appointed a dedicated project manager to help its customers with the complex and time consuming process of converting to lead-free components.
Prism was selected from six other contract electronics manufacturing companies that were approached as potential suppliers to Gardasoft.
Peter Bhagat of Gardasoft said: 'Our product range continually evolves to incorporate new technologies and functionality'.
'We needed a manufacturing partner that could accommodate this as well as cope with changes to production schedules as order patterns change'.
'Some of our products are also quite intricate to manufacture, for example, needing components to be carefully shaped before they can be fitted'.
'We were particularly impressed with the capabilities and skill level of staff at Prism'.
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