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Hi-Tech Electronic Manufacturing Inc adds Flying Probe
HiTEM offers Flying Probe (Fixtureless) test as the ideal low cost solution for electically verifying prototypes prior to your design verification process.
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Hi-Tech Electronic Manufacturing Inc. wins Nunn-Perry Award
Hi-Tech Electronic Manufacturing Inc. (HiTEM) was honored with the Department of Defense’s prestigious Nunn-Perry Award
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November 14, 2006 - Northrop Grumman Awards HiTEM the "World Class Team Small Business Development Award"
"This award is given to those suppliers who have consistently demonstarted outstanding achievements and support of NGC programs."
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August 21, 2006 - HiTEM Moves Into New Facitily
"This move positions HiTEM to grow...and sustain the service levels our customers have grown to expect."
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April 4, 2006 - Northrop Grumman Awards HiTEM Small Business Supplier of the Year
Text of the announcement from Northrop Grumman noted, “HiTEM continues to delight ..."
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March 1, 2006 - HiTEM received AS9100, recertified for ISO 9001:2000
HiTEM received their AS9100 certification on their initial application...
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Feature

A Bold New Age

 By Thai Nguyen, CEO

A month ago I watched a PBS program where the main theme was ‘if you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.’  We all know that the transformation from the industrial age to that of high technology has been accelerating in recent years.  Accordingly, the term ‘paradigm shift’, which means changing the viewpoint, is not strange jargon any more.

Last week, as I watched my manufacturing team working through a kaizen session and struggling with a particular issue, I found myself thinking of that theme from the PBS program while the Lean Enterprise consultant from SEA was offering a different perspective to the team.  The consultant’s outsider’s view sparked the remembrance of a statement from Albert Einstein, ‘the significant problems we face cannot be solved with the same level of thinking we used when we created them.’  In this case, our consulting partner presented an out-of-the-box approach and my team was enthusiastically in tune with it in finding a solution outside of our paradigm within the lean enterprise concept.

HiTEM is at a juncture to adopt this approach all throughout the company.  The ‘lean thinking’ we are practicing is certainly a thought provoking business philosophy.  This year, Northrop Grumman is mentoring us to accelerate our lean initiatives.  I am encouraged to see the fruits we are bearing through incremental improvement.  However, I continue to push to accelerate the radical process improvement that will come along with it.  I am convinced that the latest kaizen session will bring outstanding results.  This is a time when creativity and break-through ideas are needed more than anything else.  We all should be on board with this coming-of-age approach.