Making QUALITY Visible CASE STUDY shows how an electronics manufacturer added new business thanks to improved quality software Sponsored by: Webcast: Making QUALITY Visible: CASE STUDY shows how an electronics manufacturer added new business thanks to improved quality software Date: February 03, 2009, 11:00am EST, 60 minutes Speakers: Philip Stoten, EMSNow   Bruce Isbell, Valor Computerized Systems   Amos Kolath, USR Electronic Systems   Hagit Nagola Shaham, USR Electronic Systems   Henry Jurgens, Valor Computerized Systems View Now Making QUALITY Visible: CASE STUDY shows how an electronics manufacturer added new business thanks to improved quality software Abstract The topic of visibility, tracking, and dashboards is on everyone�s mind these days as all manufacturers are searching for ways to reduce costs and improve business performance. One of the obvious ways to improve business is to reduce waste created by poor visibility of accurate quality data. Consider these questions: Without real time visibility of quality levels and WIP at each step in your process, coupled with interactive data drill down capability to immediately isolate the root cause of quality issues, how can your engineering talent be focused on solving the right problems? Or if you are an EMS company, how can you build up confidence in the eyes of your customer that you are equipped to help them continuously improve the quality and delivery of their products? In this webinar we will hear from USR Electronic Systems, an international EMS company serving the medical, security and data communications electronics markets, tell their story. In 2008 USR transformed their quality management system with new technology that has retained key customers, grown their business and reduced cost significantly in their manufacturing process, putting them in a great position for growing success in 2009. Not a bad place to be in the current economic climate. Philip Stoten: Publisher, EMSNow Philip has been working in the electronics supply chain for more than 25 years. Having started his career as a designer, Philip was involved in production, procurement, outsourcing, sales and marketing for several electronics companies before becoming a journalist in 1993. Since then Philip has written for a number of print and internet journals and is currently publisher of EMSNow.    Bruce Isbell: Senior Strategic Marketing Manager, Valor Computerized Systems Bruce Isbell has worked "hands on" in the electronics manufacturing industry for 27 years. His experience on the shop floor as a process engineer spans across low volume complex boards for the military at Texas Instruments, to very high volume boards for telecommunications at Motorola. For the past 11 years Mr. Isbell has utilized his manufacturing experience to refocused his career to help others achieve high productivity by providing software solutions to electronics manufactures. Mr. Isbell joined Valor in 1999 and is now the Sr. Strategic Marketing Manager on the corporate marketing team. Amos Kolath: Enhineering Manager, USR Electronic Systems: Amos has been the Engineering manager of USR Electronic systems for the last 3.5 years. Before USR he held Engineering, Commercial and Operation positions in the EMS industry. Amos has 23 years of experience in the electronic manufacturing business, in most of his carrier he worked for major Electronic companies like Motorola, Flextronics, Sanmina-SCI and TDK (Nemic). Amos has experience in DFx (DFA, DFT.. ) and in various production related software solution. Amos holds a B.A degree in business and management & Practical Electronic Engineer. Hagit Nagola Shaham: IT Manager, USR Electronic Systems: Hagit is the IT Manager of USR Electronic Systems.  In the last 8 years Hagit has managed many projects involving software implementations and system integrations. She also has many years of experience working as a software developer and in project and account management for complicated software implementation projects. Hagit holds a B.Sc degree of computer science from the Technion Technological Institute of Israel and MBA degree in business administration from the University of Haifa. Hagit is the principal project manager for all Valor software implementations at USR.     For questions regarding this event contact Russ Conde