What's New at RIC

RIC Employees Receive IPC J-STD-001 Certification

June, 2007 - Three Rochester Industrial Control (RIC) employees recently completed IPC's J-STD-001 course. This course requires its students to exhibit soldering skills and deliver a brief presentation. RIC's employees received certification after completing open and closed book exams. The certification shows that these individuals have valuable knowledge and understanding of J-STD-001, and it allows them to conduct in-house operator training for RIC's employees. For more information about J-STD-001 certification you can go to: www.eptac.com or www.ipc.org.

 

The Empire Zones Program will benefit RIC by offering programs for new employee development and also includes training for existing employees. These programs will be of great assistance to RIC and will in turn benefit the surrounding communities.

For more information on the NY State Empire Zones Program, go to: Empire State Development.

All-environment cable assembly system developed by RIC Design Engineers (click on photo for larger view)

• Isolation resistance
• High temperature to 125 degrees Celsius
• Low temperature to -40 degrees Celsius
• Contamination by fluids
• Handling drop test
• Insulation rub test
• Corrosion testing (1,000 hours of salt fog)

RIC's President and CEO Eric Albert says, "This project represents a tremendous boost to our business but in a larger sense demonstrates our ongoing commitment to the growth and success of manufacturing in Wayne County and New York state in general. Everyone benefits when we have a highly trained and stable workforce. Our customers receive products that meet their specifications. Our employees improve their skills, helping RIC to continuously realize process or product innovations that can make RIC and our customers more competitive in a global marketplace. All these things will help RIC to grow which is good for Wayne County and New York State.

RIC is shipping wire harness assemblies to the Aerospace industry. These assemblies contain mixed technologies including lacing, broom stitching, solder connectors, crimped terminals, ferrite assemblies and hot stamped wire designators on Teflon wire.

Eighteen production, inspection and supervisory personnel at RIC have completed the IPC/WHMA-A-620 Cable and Wire Harness Inspection Training Course. IPC is the association for connecting electronics industries and describes the standard as containing the "acceptability requirements for producing crimped, mechanically secured or soldered connections and the associated lacing/restraining criteria associated with cable and harness assemblies". The course consisted of 18 modules describing visual inspection techniques used in determining the acceptability of wire prep, termination, splicing, labeling, harnessing, bundling, potting and lacing. RIC's personnel participated in lectures, demonstrations and quizzes for a minimum of 40 classroom hours each. They received certificates at a graduation ceremony.

RIC shipped communication cabinets it manufactured for the United States Air National Guard. Representatives from the Air National guard visited RIC's facility in Ontario, NY and approved the workmanship. RIC provided box build services for these units which are about six feet tall and include racks full of electronics, harnesses and cables assemblies. RIC has been providing electronic manufacturing services for various other electronic communication devices used by the United States armed forces stateside and abroad.

RIC workers are performing the complicated task of adding wire-wrap connections inside the above communication cabinets which are over six feet tall.

HTR representative Rich Gizzi, who has over 27 years of experience in manufacturing including five years as a Director of Training in the electronics industry will assist RIC in attaining ISO-9001:2000 for its quality management system. Mr. Gizzi specializes in the areas of Quality System Development, ISO certification efforts and is a certified ISO Lead Auditor.

For more information on High Tech Rochester, visit their website at www.htr.org.

RIC uses Tyco's Champomator terminating machine for the manufacture of communications equipment for the military.