At RBB, we pride ourselves on being trusted partners to our customers. By building solid customer relationships, we’ve learned the attributes our customers value in an outsourcing partner.

In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, we shared RBB’s cultural behaviors that lead to customer, business, and individual success. Every employee is obliged to act according to these standards.

One of the most important aspects of circuit board manufacturing is the ability to efficiently and cost-effectively quote orders. For us at RBB, we swarm to the need as soon as a RFP is received.  Many different things simultaneously occur, most of which may sound familiar to fellow small batch electronics manufacturers.

In Part 1 of this series, we shared the behaviors that we have found leads to customer, business, and individual success in an electronics manufacturing environment. As we mentioned before, every employee, regardless of position or length of service, has an obligation to act according to these standards. 

RBB recently served as a Global Sponsor and Exhibitor at the Cleveland Engineering Society's Annual Industry and Manufacturing Conference held at Lorain Community College's Spitzer Conference Center.

Recently, RBB codified our company behaviors. Every employee, regardless of position or length of service, has an obligation to act according to these standards.

I was asked to write another blog post and at first I really wasn’t sure what to write about. I share my time handling products returned for repair, assisting engineering on quotes, visual aids for production, component identification/substitution and answering questions about component programming and product testing.

It's always interesting to learn about the different jobs within an electronics manufacturing job shop. By understanding all the roles that exist to ensure our small batch electronics are properly assembled gives an even better look into the exciting world of electronics manufacturing. As a part of my in-depth blog series interviewing those working on the technical side of things, I had a chance to chat with Cathie Johnson, an RBB Selective Soldering Technician.

“Yeah, we do that.” Most electronic contract manufacturers (CM’s) have designed their businesses to say this, regardless of the need. Visit virtually any CM’s website or talk to their salespeople. You will likely encounter: