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Morey Corp. Not many electronics companies wear their Christian values on their sleeves. Being private gives the Morey family control over such decision-making free of the pressures of buy-and-sell shareholders. It has its drawbacks too, though. It constrains growth, especially if acquisitions are desired. But while the company is “very active in terms of finding and earning new customers,” Morey says, it never harbored the desire to grow through acquisitions. “It’s not our primary path.” Nor did the Morey brothers attain their jobs simply through genetic luck. Scott got his start hand crimping and soldering in the plant, and he and his brother Jay, a company vice president, have electrical engineering degrees. (A third brother, Dana, is also a vice president.) And it would be likewise injudicious to reduce the firm to a handful of pithy Golden Rule philosophies. A high-energy personality, Scott Morey subscribes to Eli Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints – the idea that every organization has, at any given point in time, one key constraint that limits performance relative to its goals – and expends most of his energy identifying and attacking constraints of the business. Under Scott Morey’s guidance, the firm is developing strategic suppliers, ideally numbering one to three for each key commodity, and signing three-year contracts under which the supplier gets 100% of the business under agreement, plus first crack at any new business. Some firms stress diversity and large numbers of customers as a financial hedge. Morey Corp. runs counter to that, preferring, says Scott, to “put all our eggs in one basket, then watch that basket.” Likewise, he expects the same from his customers. “I’m not going to invest in someone who will shop me out at every opportunity.” Unlike many EMS firms its size, Morey Corp. is an early adopter of technologies, despite what Morey terms “a number of false starts” at new product development. The new Woodridge campus includes a 100,000 sq. ft. production facility (Figure 1) and a 27,500-sq. ft. research and development center. It boasts three double-sided SMT lines and one prototype line, featuring MPM UP 2000 printers, Panasonic placement, Electrovert OmniExcel 7/10 reflow, ERSA selective soldering and waves, a PVA conformal coater, and Chad Industries PTH inserters (Figure 2). AOI (YesTech) is offline, and test equipment includes Glenbrook Technologies x-ray, four Agilent 3070 ICTs, and a SPEA flying probe. (Morey does not clean.) All parts are barcoded for tracking, and the company averages 15 changeovers a day and about 300 work orders per month. The company has developed much of its own test equipment, perhaps to meet the operations philosophy to “test early, test often,” chimes in vice president of sales and marketing Keith Gelinas. Since inception, the company has been Phone: 1-800-225-1632 Illinois-based, having thus far resisted the call www.neainc.com of China. In fact, Morey downplays China’s lure – “there is no cost advantage … once you Get the quality you need at a price you can afford with NEA certified remanufactured equipment. • Complete overhaul of electrical, mechanical, and pneumatic systems • Thorough cleaning and refinishing of components and final assembly • Original manufacturer parts for all replacement components • System and software upgrades • Complete equipment documentation Add to that superior customer support and the best warranties in the industry. Best of all, our prices are well below new equipment. Contact us today! 54 Circuits Assembly MARCH 2008 circuitsassembly.com http://www.neainc.com http://www.neainc.com http://circuitsassembly.com

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