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Route SMT
December 31, 1969 |Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
SMT Magazine recently visited SenDEC, an EMS provider in Fairport, N.Y., and Austin American Technology’s new Burnet, Texas facility. If you would like Route SMT to make a stop at your facility, send an e-mail to smt@pennwell.com. We’ll put you on our route!
The SMT team with (top, l-r) Ken Fiske, president and CEO; Craig Hoffman, VP and general manager; and Mike Fiske, marketing manager (bottom, left).
SenDEC Corporation This Fairport, N.Y.-based contract manufacturer has more than 30 years experience in electronics design prototyping, manufacturing, and testing. Ranked 2nd in Rochester’s Top 100 fastest-growing companies, SenDEC’s revenue has grown 210% over the last three years.
Perfect timing. SenDEC workers roll in a new reflow oven for its expanding production line. Here, Roger Gricius and Butch LeDuc move the recent purchase into its spot on one of the facility’s three SMT lines.
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SMT editors get behind the wheels of high-speed Go-Karts. SenDEC’s Products Group designs and manufactures display meters for a variety of markets.
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Because of frequent product changeovers, flexibility is important with both machines and management. Craig Hoffman noted that a diversified customer base is important to SenDEC’s success. “We need to have other opportunities to fill voids and not have an overdependency on one customer or market.”
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SenDEC’s customer base covers commercial, consumer, industrial, medical, military, and telecom sectors. With three SMT lines running 20 hr./day, machine flexibility, repeatability, and reliability were critical when selecting pick-and-place equipment, said John Stryker, director of QA.
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Maureen Whiting, assembler, inspects a board in the prototype area, which has seen significant growth in the past year. SenDEC now builds boards for China.
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SenDEC closely partners with Hand Held Products, Inc. (Skaneateles Falls, N.Y.), a manufacturer of data collection and communication products. In 2006, Hand Held Products, Inc., awarded SenDEC its Vision of Excellence Supplier Award.
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Austin American Technology-Tracy Thompson; Steve Stach, president and CEO; Wayne Kruemcke; Jon Phelps; and Gail Flower, SMT editor-in-chief, gather outside the company’s Burnet, Texas, headquarters to announce the Route SMT visit while facing the hot southern sun.
Shelly Hughes, accounting department; and Beatrice Strebel, administration welcome SMT to Austin American Technology.
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Visitors from Jabil Circuit.
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Both semi-aqueous and aqueous cleaning systems are in high demand in the industry. Here, several machines are prepared for shipment to a customer.
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Steve Stach has degrees in chemical engineering from Texas Tech. Building the first SMT stencil cleaner in 1988, performing high-reliability board cleaning, and expanding into FOUP cleaning all were natural progresses from his education.
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The company creates computer models to optimize jet manifold dryers and chemistries, as well as efficient designs for accessing and placing motors, tubes, and connectors in board.
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Nentor Marku handles precise measurements to create exact fittings.
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The higher temperatures required for lead-free cause residual flux to carbonize, thus keeping Henry Ledezma busy building systems for board cleaning.
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Robert Werkun, cleaning engineer, is preparing to open a field office in China later this year. He is honing Chinese-language skills at night, and working on improving cleaning results for waffle-packed BGAs by day.
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Stach stands behind each of his machines with 10 active patents, years of experience even in specialty markets such as military and medical cleaning, and a staff of top-notch mechanical engineers.
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