Quick-Turn and Quality: Interrelated, Interdependent and Interconnected
Quality has always been the cornerstone of service for reputable electronics manufacturers. However, when dealing in a quick-turn environment, adherence to impeccable quality standards comes with many challenges. MJS Designs has spent more than four decades mastering...
Obtaining a thorough, quality quote is not as easy as it may seem. In a past blog, Warning! Not all Quotes are the Same, we shared that reputable providers will ask many detailed questions to provide the most comprehensive quote possible. The blog also included a...
Your Security is a Priority at MJS Designs
The unfortunate reality is, data breaches and hacks are a very real part of our world, the latest being Equifax, with some 143 million people being affected. While our industry does not seem to be a regular target of hacks, MJS Designs takes data security seriously. ...
Quality Ninja or Production Coordinator? You Decide.
For a company to have a reputation for quality, recruiting and hiring team members with an innate need to provide quality becomes critical. MJS Designs has turned hiring quality-conscious people into a science. In 2005, MJS Designs recruited Matt Jefferies. Matt was...
Assembly: More than Components and Parts It is Fusing Technology with Expertise
MJS Designs advanced component technology experience qualifies them to produce even the most challenging board assemblies. In addition, the easily adaptable, automated equipment allows MJS Designs to give prompt attention to all low to medium volume manufacturing...
Electronics Manufacturing Risk Mitigation Responsibilities
Many projects are highly complex and may have thousands of potential fail points when the risks are not taken seriously by an EMS provider or when a project is awarded to the lowest bidder or non-credentialed EMS provider. The MJS Designs team knows there is a lot at...
The Relationship Between Quality and Credentials
over 40 years of industry experience, MJS Designs has acquired a wide variety of significant industry credentials. MJS Designs also requires a range of certification standards for its staff members. While many customers come to MJS Designs because the credentials met...
Top Technology Advances of the Past 40 Years: As Chosen by the MJS Designs Team
It is hard to narrow down favorite technologies. The choices are vast and encompass everything from unassuming everyday technologies like battery operated toothbrushes to advanced behavior changing games like Pokémon Go. Technology is not an option or just a part of...
Eight Key Phases to the Engineering Cycle
On any given day in the United States there are more than 300,000 people working in the field of Electronics Engineering1. Many of these engineers are employed with fast-paced technology companies and are dedicated to churning out the latest gadgets for the consumer...
The Case for Reverse Engineering
In the simplest terms, reverse engineering can be viewed as the process of analyzing a system to identify the system's components and their interrelationships in order to duplicate or upgrade the system. Top 7 Reasons to Reverse Engineer a Product To understand the...
Warning! Not All Quotes are the Same
Today’s consumer, whether shopping for landscaping services or electronics manufacturing services, typically wants an answer to the question “how much will it cost?” as soon as possible. This key cost number often decides if they will continue to shop, if they can...
Selective Soldering System SEHO SelectLine
MJS Designs is pleased to announce the purchase of the Selective Soldering System manufactured by SEHO SelectLine, with planned installation in December 2015. The new selective soldering system provides 100% process control with its revolutionary design. The selective...
Quality Counts . . . The 8 Areas that Matter When Choosing Your Next EMS Provider
As the saying goes “you are only as strong as your weakest link”. Therefore, the partners you choose to provide Engineering, PCB CAD Layout, Testing, PCB Assembly and Manufacturing could make or break your ability to provide a quality product that is both functional...
The Secret Sauce in Quick Turn – Supply Chain Management
The phrase “Supply Chain Management” is often used as a sweeping term to cover everything from vendor relationships, to purchasing to supplier collaborations. While it often does include those things, Supply Chain Management is actually the systems used to...
Team CAUTION 1492 Says Thank You to MJS Designs!
To Dawn Visser & MJS Designs, Inc., With sincere appreciation and gratitude for your support, Arizona Community Robotics "Team CAUTION" would like to thank you for your generosity and financial sponsorship. Team CAUTION is forever grateful for all you have done...
Testing . . . The difference between doing it right and doing it over
Printed circuit board (PCB) assemblies are manufactured using an assortment of complex electrical components, including resistors, capacitors, diodes, transistors and relays, just to name a few. The functionality of any circuit board depends on each element...
MJS Designs Sponsors the 2015 Arizona SciTech Festival
The Arizona SciTech Festival is a state-wide celebration of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM or STEAM when you include the arts) held annually in February and March. In short, the philosophy behind the SciTech Festival is much like that of the Canne...
MJS Designs Sponsors FIRST Robotics Competition
MJS Designs is presented with numerous opportunities to sponsor community and industry events each year, and it is a difficult decision where to spend the sponsorship funds. There are so many great organizations that benefit from the assistance. Events that foster...
A Quick Look: Document Management Systems
Every company has their own system of archiving, filing and maintaining documents. And some don’t have any system at all, creating quite the handicap when engaging with an electronics manufacturing company. However, for companies to achieve such certifications as...
Technical Documentation Specialist: A Job Made for the Detailed Mind
At its start, electronics manufacturing is much like building a house. In the case of building a house, everything starts with the blue prints. Quotes are not given, supplies are not ordered, foundation is not poured and construction doesn’t begin until the blue...