Citation
(2007), "Exception signs contract with Turkish electronics specialist", Circuit World, Vol. 33 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/cw.2007.21733dab.003
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2007, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Exception signs contract with Turkish electronics specialist
Exception signs contract with Turkish electronics specialist
UK-based Exception PCB has signed a $500,000 contract to supply a Turkish electronics business within the defence market with PCBs. The end client is a leading player in the design, development and manufacture of military electronics, including command and control, air defence, communications and radar systems.
Owing to increasing demand at its production plant in Ankara, Exception was appointed to produce high-tech PCBs, acting as an overflow production facility for the electronics manufacturer's in-house capabilities.
Garry Myatt, Sales Director at Exception PCB, said: “We have seen our share of business in the aerospace and defence sector grow significantly over the last year and this contract is a prime example of how we are adding value in this area. Up to 25 per cent of our total turnover now comes from exports to the defence sector in countries such as France, Sweden, South Africa, Holland, the USA and Turkey, to name but a few. We see strong future growth here as we approach 2008.”
Exception has focused its efforts on improving manufacturing efficiencies for its client base, by employing well- developed principles in design for manufacture (DFM). By involving its design teams at an earlier stage in the design and manufacturing process, Exception has been able to reduce production costs in fabrication and assembly by introducing several lean efficiencies, one being increased material utilisation allowing additional circuits within manufacturing panels.
Exception provides a complete PCB and electrical equipment manufacturing outsourcing service to original equipment manufacturers across the globe. The business centres around four core competences; high-tech PCB and IC substrate manufacture in the UK; PCA and equipment build combined with medium volume production in the UK; DFM and preproduction of PCAs and higher volume PCB and PCA manufacture in low-cost economies.