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Manufacturing in the USA has become a major topic of business studies in the 21st century.  With many companies looking to LCC's (Low Cost Countries) to help improve margins, it has become imperative that to keep business in this country, we need to invest in “Best in...

Quality Blog:     Richard Schulman, Vice President Quality, Columbia Tech, July 2011 Quality starts with the fabric or the culture of the company. The further embedded quality is into the culture of the company, the more likely it will design, build and produce...

I joined Columbia Tech approximately seven years ago. Since starting, my career has been filled with excitement and ultimately a great deal of satisfaction.  Leading CT's Test Department comes with a great deal of technical diversity and inherent responsibility. My...

Completing a design for a product intended for volume production includes many trade-offs not necessarily considered for prototype development or low volume development projects.  Not to be confused with Design for Manufacturability (DFM) which concerns component...

Over the last decade, there has been a great push to move the assembly of printed circuit boards from the United States to Asia and Eastern Europe to reduce cost.  However, this may not make sense for a low to medium volume product, as there are many hidden costs with...

Certainty and Speed With little room for delays due to management, technical or budget shortfalls, product development and transition to manufacturing have to be done right the first time and on time. In a rapidly growing market, with a product life cycle of three...

After working in the contract manufacturing field for 18 years with Coghlin Companies I have learned the importance of building quality into the process in order to achieve desirable results from the beginning. As a contract manufacturer we focus predominantly on...

Positive attitudes and kindness make going to work a pleasure. When I accepted my job at Columbia Tech in 2005, everything about it felt right, from the smiles and positive attitudes of all I met to the beautiful old brick building. I had no idea what contract...

It was 1994, and I had just started working at Columbia Tech, then the newest Coghlin company with less than 100 associates occupying just half of our Briden Street facility. I was managing the warehouse, and Chris Coghlin was working in the wire prep department while...