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The Right Approach Consulting

March 4, 2020

Milwaukee, WI

 

HT Pho-Tronics receives MIL-PRF-31032 Certification

I am extremely proud to announce that client HT Pho-Tronics has received certification to MIL-PRF-31032 from the DLA (Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime). The company had long held the MIL-PRF-55110 certification, which has been replaced by MIL-PRF-31032. This certification adds to the company’s other QMS merit badges of ISO 9001 and AS9100. Unlike the ISO and AS certifications that focus on the quality management system, MIL-PRF-31032 is a printed circuit board performance certification concerned with manufacturing and process control, testing and reliability. The management team and workforce were heavily involved in the transition and were a key component of the success of the project. A heartfelt thanks & congrats to all!

About HT Pho-Tronics

Pho-Tronics was founded in 1962 as a privately held family owned and operated business and has recently been acquired into the HT Global Circuits family of printed circuit board factories. HT Pho-Tronics has been manufacturing high-reliability, complex printed circuit boards for over 50 years in Milwaukee, Wisconsin for the aerospace, military. Industrial, medical and commercial industries. Their 60,000 sq. ft. facility was custom built in 1980 for the specific purpose of manufacturing cost effective printed circuit boards. Product excellence Is achieved through a dedication to continuous process improvement through lean manufacturing principles, SPC and advanced root cause analysis.

For more information go https://www.htglobalcircuits.com

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Steve@tracQMS.com

920-841-3478

Quality Management System

The first thing we need to get straight is that a Quality Management System (QMS) is actually a Business Management System (BMS). Your Quality Management System will encompass every business process from quoting through shipping (and after sale service), so the QMS is not a “quality thing”, it is an “everyone thing”.  I occasionally run into companies that still have the attitude of “we are only doing this to satisfy ISO, there is not much value to the company.”

This is wrong-headed thinking on so many levels.The true benefits of an ISO system are that it should be used to run the business. The process metrics established for ISO should be discussed at every production and managers meeting. Internal audits should be used to improve every process on an ongoing basis. Customer feedback should drive organizational improvement, and so on. In fact, I would be hard-pressed to find a single requirement of ISO that just doesn’t make good business sense.

The ISO powers that be have emphasized this point with the 2015 revision by requiring top management to be fully engaged in the entire system and not just their own sandbox. This is a good thing.

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