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What do customers want?

What a customer wants is very simple. They want the core product or service of your business to meet their needs and expectations. If you are a PCB manufacturer, they want a board that works, is delivered on time and at a fair value for their money. So, if wanting stuff that works, when you need it, is not an unreasonable expectation, then why are consistent high marks for customer satisfaction so difficult to reach and maintain?

Because customers expect these things; they are called Order Qualifiers, or in other words, the price of admission. Satisfying these core areas will not create loyal customers or cause them to tell others how good you are. However, if you don’t meet these basic objectives, they most certainly will tell anyone who will listen how bad you are.

Order Winners, the things that will drive loyalty, additional business and turn customers into your best sales people are the little extras; things that most companies fail to either realize, or don’t place as much value on. The following are a list of things that your customers really – really – really want that will turn them into fans for life!

 

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Steve@tracQMS.com

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Understanding your customers may seem like a no-brainer, but talking with company leaders across various industries the past seven years demonstrate just how difficult this can be in practice. One of the newest requirements to both ISO 2015 & AS9100 2016 is expanding the whole concept of who is a customer. The traditional definition of a customer is organizations that pay us for our product. The new requirement is to define the “Interested Parties” to the business, and to identify what their needs are.

Interested Parties are defined as any party that has an interest in how your company performs. This includes traditional customers, but also adds parties such as owners/stakeholders, employees, suppliers, banks, and the community. Only parties that have an interest in how your company performs and impact the QMS need be examined, although this should be a very short list. Because, as I preach to my clients, a “B” can be functionally swapped out for the “Q” in QMS as it is actually a Business Management System for the entirety of the organization.

How can this help? Excellent question, because any requirement comes with the expectation that something must be done. A simple analysis at the next management review meeting will suffice, using a tool such as my attached Interested Parties Worksheet. Refreshing this activity then becomes an annual exercise.

Stand by for Part 2, and contact me to help with your Interested Parties analysis

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Steve@tracQMS.com

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American Standard Circuits is one of the elite PCB fabricators in the industry, and I had the opportunity to interview CEO Anaya Vardya for iConnect007’s virtual SMTA International exposition. Anaya talks about the impact of Covid, what they are doing to keep employees safe and new developments in the company. PCB007’s industry audience ranked this interview No. 2 in their Top Ten picks; watch the interview here: http://pcb.iconnect007.com/index.php/article/124625/real-time-withsmtai-2020-asc-makes-lemonade-out-of-lemons/124628

To schedule your interview contact me at:

Steve@tracQMS.com

920-841-3478

For enhanced high-speed signal-handling performance required by the world’s most demanding high-frequency Printed Circuit Board applications, Ventec International Group has launched a laminate option to its tec-speed 20.0 glass-reinforced hydrocarbon and ceramic laminate cladded with thin-film resistor material from Ticer.

Read about it here:

http://pcb.iconnect007.com/index.php/article/124607/ventec-launches-high-speed-material-option-cladded-with-thin-film-resistor-foil/124610/?skin=pcb#124607

Contact me for all your quality needs.

Steve Williams

920-841-3478

Steve@tracQMS.com

 

Watch my Real Time with… interview with ASC CEO Anaya Vardya on the upcoming SMTAI (virtual) conference and how they are managing trade shows in this “new normal”

http://flex.iconnect007.com/index.php/article/124625/real-time-withsmtai-2020-asc-makes-lemonade-out-of-lemons/124628/?skin=flex#124625

Call now to schedule your interview…

Steve Williams

920-841-3478

Steve@tracQMS.com

Part 3 continues with tips and techniques to minimize audit findings and maximize audit success.

Read here http://iconnect007.uberflip.com/i/1259453-pcb007-june2020/61?m4=

Avoid audit “dings”

 

Contact me ASAP to start training your staff on these Guerrilla Tactics

Steve@tracQMS.com

920-841-3478

 

Recently Steve Williams was interviewed by the iConnect007 Editorial Team on Emotional Manufacturing Intelligence; read the interview here http://iconnect007.uberflip.com/i/1259453-pcb007-june2020/30 and see why Williams feels EMI is more important than IQ when it comes to guiding manufacturing thinking and behavior.

Contact Mr. Williams for more information on EMI and all of your quality management needs.

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Steve@tracQMS.com

Don’t think you can make money building PCBs? Then read my latest article to see how…  http://iconnect007.uberflip.com/i/1221561-pcb007-mar2020/10

Contact me right away to see how I can help you make more money!

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Steve@tracQMS.com

Would you like to have better success during customer and 3rd party quality systems audits? Read this multiple part series for tips and techniques to minimize audit findings and maximize audit success. Read here http://iconnect007.uberflip.com/i/1221561-pcb007-mar2020/78

 

Contact me ASAP to start training your staff on these Guerrilla Tactics

Steve@tracQMS.com

920-841-3478

Read my latest article written with supply chain expert Fane Friberg on Page 50 of the April PCB007 magazine. Read it here http://iconnect007.uberflip.com/i/1236528-pcb007-apr2020

Then call me.

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