PRESS RELEASE The Right Approach Consulting March 5, 2024 Hanover Park, IL Elite RF receives ISO 9001 2015 Certification I am proud to announce that client Elite RF, an industry-leading RF amplifier and generator manufacturer, has received certification to ISO 9001: 2015 from certifying body IAPMO SCB. The entire management staff put in a tremendous […]

In conjunction with the IPC, join me on this live Webinar Wednesday, March 13th, 2024. Sign up using this registration link to the webinar https://www.ipc.org/event/importance-good-pcb-design-package             Topics Include: Customer Service Representatives Are Not Engineers Netlist does not match the manufacturing data Impedance stackups do not meet impedance requirements Not using the […]

Continuing with the second in my 3-part interview with ASC’s John Johnson, formerly with Averatek, on the patented A-SAP process that allows PCB manufacturers to produce sub 25-micron (1 mil) pcb trace and space designs with perfectly straight side walls. Click here to read the entire article: https://iconnect007.uberflip.com/i/1512857-design007-dec2023/45? Contact me for all your quality needs or […]

Read the first in my 3-part interview with ASC’s John Johnson, formerly with Averatek, on the patented A-SAP process that allows PCB manufacturers to produce sub 25-micron (1 mil) pcb trace and space designs with perfectly straight side walls. Click here to read the article:   https://iconnect007.uberflip.com/i/1511130-design007-nov2023/59?           Contact me for all […]

Fantastic read by my colleague Dan Beaulieu: Doing business the Elon Musk way! The points Dan makes are appropriate to anyone in any industry and specifically in the world of quality. https://iconnect007.com/article/137869/its-only-common-sense-doing-business-the-elon-musk-way/137866/pcb Steve@tracQMS.com 920-841-3478  

Good leadership always makes a difference; unfortunately, so does bad leadership. This leadership truth continues as we wrap up this series on leadership with the last of the 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: The Law of Legacy. What kind of legacy do you want to leave behind once you’ve moved on from your leadership position? […]

As we will be talking about law 20 of the 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership it is important to recognize that a leader must have followers, of course, but an important exercise is to consider who makes up that group of followers. Followers who are content on being followers will yield a modest return to […]

Good leadership always makes a difference; unfortunately, so does bad leadership. This leadership truth continues as we will be talking about law 19 of the 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership. Timing is Everything How often have we heard this throughout our lives? Too often to count I would suggest. We don’t have to look around […]

Early in my career I had no idea what I wanted to do; I got into this business because printed circuit board manufacturing was the family business; back then it was just a starter job and I had no idea that it would turn in to a 47-year (and counting) career path. After years of […]

Good leadership always makes a difference; unfortunately, so does bad leadership. This leadership truth continues as we will be talking about law 17 of the 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership. As a leader, you should spend most of your time working in your areas of greatest strength, a lesson that often gets lost with many leaders. […]