Epec's Blog | Electronics Manufacturing Solutions

Here at Epec Engineered Technologies, we believe that our customers come first. Everything we are is because of our customers. We also strive to make sure that our employees are happy. We are part of a family, and we want to make sure we work as a cohesive team; in fact, throughout our facility you will often hear the phrase “One Team, One Fight”.

There are a lot of good things happening right now for many folks in the electronics manufacturing industry in the United States. The economy is going strong, unemployment rates are dropping, and there has been growth in the PCB industry over the past four months which hasn’t happened since May of 2016 according to the U.S. Purchasing Managers’ Index.

Root cause analysis is a technique performed to identify the underlying reasons why a particular problem is occurring. At Epec, we do a lot of problem solving. As manufacturers, we strive to discover better, more efficient ways to delight our customers. Whether we are working on an 8D CAPA or running an A3 Project, we are often working to determine the foundational cause of issues as the means to solving the problem.

How do you ensure that your manufacturing talent is an asset to your business? Consider a typical manufacturing organization. Qualifications for many entry–level shop floor positions are modest. New hires range from novices all the way to seasoned manufacturing professionals with specialized skills.

Sometimes it is an employer’s market and at other times, there is a scarcity of suitable job talent. In this ever-changing environment, how do we keep the most ambitious, hardworking, and engaged workers?

At Epec our goal is to provide customers with an exceptional experience. All of our account managers respond promptly, accurately, and are knowledgeable about products, processes, and services. Each account manager goes through an introductory training course with each department’s manager, so they are equipped to respond to incoming requests.

Somewhere around the turn of the century, maybe in the last decade or so, there was a change in the job market. New requirements for employees coming into the job market, a higher standard. The days of getting high paying jobs based simply off prior work experience are behind us; that experience still means something, but not as much as it used to. So, what are employers looking for then? A college degree.

At Epec, we take workforce training very seriously. We readily invest in workforce education because it is a time-tested, proven path to improving manufacturing process development and customer satisfaction. In our experience, the educated workers are not only productive, but they are also adaptable problem solvers focused on satisfying our customers' most demanding needs.

This blog post is not the usual topic you find on Epec’s company blog. We are normally blogging about technology solutions focusing on issues that can help our customers, but as a company, Epec does a lot behind the scenes for their employees that go unnoticed.

At Epec, our staff members are our most valuable resource, and we believe in empowering employees for success. In this company, we celebrate each other’s success and support each other’s challenges. We strive to attract, hire, develop and retain passionate, talented, high-performance individuals that are driven by our mission which is to provide cost savings, technical resources and delivery advantage for our customers. We are committed to recruiting the best people that want to share our success, fit in our culture and live by our core values.