MOUNT PLEASANT, PA — Intervala LLC, a premier full-service electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider, today announced that Ken Morris has joined the company as director of operations for its cable and harness manufacturing facility in Hudson, New Hampshire. Morris is responsible for leading the site’s production, engineering and continuous improvement functions as Intervala makes further investments in its custom cable and harness assembly capabilities and expertise.

Morris’ career in the EMS industry spans four decades with extensive experience in the cable and harness manufacturing arena, serving customers in high-reliability, technology-driven markets, including medical devices, aerospace and defense, and industrial. He joined Intervala from Scott Electronics Inc. where he worked as general manager for U.S. EMS operations. He previously was employed for more than 30 years with the former Atronix Inc., now a unit of Amphenol Corporation, where he held a variety of leadership positions, including production manager, warehouse and engineering manager, and senior program manager.

Since acquiring the Hudson operation in 2020, Intervala has made several investments at the site, including enhanced automated tooling and equipment, greater support for the site’s overmolding capabilities and additional talent with expertise in high-reliability cable and harness design and manufacturing. The company plans to add fiber optic cabling to its offerings in 2023. The Hudson site is certified to ISO 9001:2015, AS9100D and ISO 13485:2016 quality standards.

“We are excited to have a manufacturing operations leader of Ken’s caliber join our growing team,” said Teresa Huber, president and CEO. “During his wide-ranging career, Ken has worked in virtually every discipline of operations and program management, honing his skills in all aspects of cable and harness manufacturing, electronics assembly and customer success. Since joining Intervala, he has already made several key improvements in streamlining our cable and harness operations, including implementing cellular manufacturing on the production floor. We look forward to his additional contributions as we continue to expand our capabilities to better serve our customers.”

NEWMAN LAKE, WA — Hentec Industries/RPS Automation, a leading manufacturer of selective soldering, lead tinning and solderability test equipment, is pleased to announce that TTM Technologies, Inc. has purchased a Pulsar solderability testing system.

The Pulsar utilizes the highly proven dip-and-look test method that is a qualitative type test performed by comparative analysis after specimens are dipped in a bath of flux and molten solder. An advantage of the dip-and-look method is since it is based on comparative analysis it can be performed rapidly by shop floor personnel with minimal training as well as requiring significantly lower capital investment then a wetting balance test system. The Pulsar solderability testing system complies with all applicable solderability test standards including MIL-STD-883 Method 2003, IPC J-STD-002 and MIL-STD-202 Method 208.

PALO ALTO,  CA —  Arch® Systems, the leading provider of machine data and analytics for electronics assembly operations, today announced the appointment of Joel Eterovich as VP, Global Sales.

Eterovich has 25 years of operations and sales experience across multiple global industries. He has a passion for helping the world's largest industrial companies digitally transform their enterprises to unlock hidden productivity and drive breakthrough gains in sustainability.

Eterovich started his career at Rockwell Automation, working in their electronics manufacturing factories to transform silos of data into production insights. He transitioned to sales and engineering leadership roles across North America with a focus on accelerating growth of key strategic software acquisitions. He holds a BA in industrial engineering from The Ohio State University as well as an MS in operations research from Cleveland State University.

Arch has built the largest collaboration of industry domain experts working hand-in-hand with data scientists to constantly map new signals from the noisy data, adding them to the ever-growing library of actionable insights.

These insights are changing how manufacturers tackle their most complex problems, allowing them to simplify and align actions both on the shop floor and the top floor. Arch also is a recipient of a 2022 Mexico Technology Award, 2022 GLOBAL Technology Award and 2022 SMT China Vision Award. The ArchFX Platform provides the machine connectivity, data management and advanced insights needed to achieve digital transformation across the manufacturing organization. For more information, visit archsys.io or follow us on LinkedIn or Twitter.

KUALA LUMPUR — Electrical and electronic manufacturing company VS Industry Bhd has allocated capital expenditure (capex) of around RM80 million for the financial year 2023 (FY2023).

Managing director Datuk Gan Sem Yam said FY2022 was a demanding year as it was fraught with a multitude of challenges from the effects of a prolonged pandemic and global macroeconomic issues.

Nevertheless, the company had navigated through these taxing business operating conditions and delivered a commendable performance, he said in a statement today.

“Looking ahead, while the elevated market uncertainties are expected to persist, we remain steadfast and focused on growing our business. With the order flow from customers continuing to be satisfactory for our local operations, we target to deploy around RM80 million for capex to expand and enhance our capacity and capabilities. “Over in Indonesia, we anticipate better contribution this year as a customer is increasing its orders,” Gan said.

At the group level, he noted that VS Industry will continue to channel resources to further strengthen its initiatives on the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) front.

“Moving forward, we are cautiously optimistic on VS’ outlook and opine that the financial performance of the group in FY2023 to be satisfactory,” he added.

The group noted that it has a dividend policy of 40 per cent payout of net profit and for FY2022 ended July 31, 2022, it had continued with its dividend payout practice with a total dividend per share amounting to two sen, representing a 45.8 per cent payout based on FY2022’s earnings per share of 4.37 sen.