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News Release from: Axiom Manufacturing Services
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 13 February 2006
Welsh Quality Centre praises CEM's
approach
A strong commitment to quality has earned a contract electronics manufacturer a prestigious award for business excellence for the second time in two years.
Axiom Manufacturing, a UK based CEM, was awarded a second Wales Quality Award for Manufacturing this year after scooping the Environment prize last year The company's use of the EFQM business excellence model means it is more than ready for the technological and legislative challenges of the future
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 29 Aug 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Speaking during a recent visit to the Axiom plant, Chairman and founder of the Welsh Quality Centre, Vincent Kane, praised the approach being taken by Axiom.
He said: "To win two consecutive awards for business excellence shows that the company is leading the field".
"UK based CEMs have to offer good reasons to stop customers sourcing offshore and Axiom is demonstrating how to offer a niche service successfully".
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"Axiom links its success to the success of customers and is focused on delivering the best standards of service".
"A commitment to quality is driving the business and helping the company maximise its success".
Shaun Ashmead, Managing Director of Axiom, said: "Technology is developing rapidly while legislation is becoming increasingly strict for electronics manufacturing companies".
"Rather than hurdles, Axiom regards these developments as opportunities to add value for customers, help them through the minefield of new legislation and provide solutions using the latest technology, at the optimum overall acquisition cost".
"It is our ability to adjust quickly to these new challenges, or any other customer need, that has helped Axiom to thrive over the last two years".
"The excellence model has helped to formalise the introduction of new processes and has allowed us to comply with legislation before many of our competitors".
"Axiom is paving the way for a new generation of CEM providers, offering a total customer service which has been identified by the customer themselves".
Winning the Wales Quality Award for the Manufacturing sector demonstrated how the company is thriving through its use of business excellence models from the Wales Quality Centre despite tough competition from low cost economies in China and India.
The EU Restriction of Hazardous Waste (RoHS) legislation, due to be introduced on 1st July this year, means that Axiom has had to modify and invest in new equipment to withstand the new processes needed to reach these new standards.
Solder will now be 99% tin instead of the current 36% tin and 74% lead.
The higher temperatures needed to work with the new solder formula means that existing machinery wears out quicker and new processes have to be developed.
With its experience of working to the new standard Axiom has already overcome these problems, being the first CEM worldwide to be accredited to the coveted BSI kitemark for lead free manufacture.
Even though the medical and defence equipment is exempt, many customers from these sectors of manufacturing are asking for their products to meet the same strict criteria in advance of the law changing.
These companies are planning for the future and can take advantage of the bank of knowledge Axiom has developed through working to the new standards.
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