Product

Manufacturing

May 5, 2011

These services are provided from the group’s modern facilities in Norway (Arendal), Sweden (Karlskoga and Jцnkцping), Lithuania (Kaunas), Germany (Stuttgart), USA (Johnstown, Pennsylvania) and China (Ningbo).

Core areas of expertise: electronics, microelectronics, testing, assembly and system testing, RF, system integration, repairs and upgrades.

Core technologies: surface-mounted technologies (SMT), through-hole assembly, automated optical inspection (AOI), 3DX-ray, clean rooms, wave and selective soldering, cleaning and coating process for PCBs, together with vibration and environmental testing. Dedicated laboratory for analysis and testing.

Quality standards

• ISO 9001:2008
• ISO 14001:2004
• IRIS rev.2
• ISO 13485:2003
• 21 CFR 820 Quality System Regulation
• AQAP 2120 Ed 3
• ISO/TS 16949:2009

Standard of workmanship

Kitron complies with IPC A-610D Class 2 for standard workmanship and with J-STD 001D Class 2 for manufacturing processes. Subject to separate agreement, Kitron may also comply with Class 3.

Improvement methods

To ensure repeatability we follow U.S. FDA 21 CFR, §820 Quality System Regulation, Guidelines on General Principles of Process Validation. Kitron also complies with: 5S, Lean, Six Sigma, PFMEA and Kaizen.

Automated assembly

Complete automated assembly lines for PCBs, including various functional tests, product marking, traceability and packing of complete devices. These lines offer high reliability, repeatability, quality and throughput.