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Milwaukee Electronics is pleased to announce the appointment of Jered Stoehr to the position of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) succeeding his father, P. Michael Stoehr, who will take on the role of Executive Chairman.

Incoming CEO Jered Stoehr, a 19-year veteran of the company, previously held the role of Vice President of Marketing and Sales. Rick McClain, President and Chief Operating Officer (COO), rounds out the three-member senior leadership team.

Amongst his accomplishments at Milwaukee Electronics, Jered Stoehr started up the Screaming Circuits prototype and on-demand manufacturing business unit – the first e-commerce enabled electronics manufacturing organization in the world, opened an international purchasing office (IPO) for the company in Singapore and established an engineering tech center division in Pune, India.

P. Michael Stoehr has helmed the company since purchasing it in 1985. During that time, the company has grown from a small shop with 22 employees in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to a full-service multi-national electronics design and manufacturing service provider. Originally established in 1954, Mike’s stewardship created one of the longest established manufacturing service providers in the country. As Executive Chairman, Mike will continue to contribute to organizational culture, entrepreneurial growth guidance and governance activities.

In his new role as CEO, Jered Stoehr will be focused on growth and revenue activities, building on the successes he has achieved as Vice President of Marketing and Sales. Additionally, Stoehr will prioritize efforts to improve the customer experience, quality of strategic partnerships, breadth of service/product offerings, and continue the entrepreneurial legacy of the business.

There will be no changes to the day to day operation of the business due to this appointment. The company is committed to maintaining its status as a privately held, family run business. Jered Stoehr, as CEO, will continue to drive a philosophy of constant innovation combined with the traditional customer-first values.

Please contact your Program manager, sales or customer service representative if you have any questions.

 

This article will be continually updated with our most current status. 
Milwaukee Electronics is open to support your manufacturing needs.

As of June 02, 2020:

 

Milwaukee Electronics would like to Thank You. Your patience and flexibility over the past months, has helped us to keep our workforce safe, while meeting your ongoing needs.

Important and unchanged:

  • Our Screaming Circuits division is delivering orders on-time 98% of the time.
  • Milwaukee Electronics is open to serve your manufacturing needs.
  • We are no longer accepting in-person drop offs, will-call pickups or any carriers other than UPS, FedEx and USPS. UPS, FedEx or USPS are our only options for pick up or delivery.
  • We continue to follow the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) COVID-19 best practices for cleaning, disinfecting, social distancing, use of facial covering, and work from home where possible.
  • Electronics related to the fight against COVID-19 will be given priority. Our Portland, Oregon facility is certified to ISO-13485 for medical electronics manufacturing. Please let us know if you are requesting medical electronics.

Additional detail:

  • Our Screaming Circuits prototype and on-Demand manufacturing division has temporarily suspended its delivery guarantee (read more here)
  • The designers in our San Diego PCB Design PCB layout division are all working remotely and have full capacity available.

Our priority through this crisis is to keep our workforce safe and continue to serve our customers. We have enacted COVID-19 response best practices, including aggressive cleaning, work from home where possible, and social distancing to ensure that we will continue to be able to meet both of those objectives.

  • For the latest status update for our Screaming Circuits prototype and on-demand manufacturing division, please see: screamingcircuits.com.
  • For the latest status updates for our San Diego PCB Design PCB layout group, please see: sdpcb.com/blog.

According to the most recent Federal Government guidance, as stated in the Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity-Infrastructure guidelines, manufacturing is a part of the “essential critical infrastructure” workforce during the COVID-19 response. More information is available at: www.cisa.gov/publication/guidance-essential-critical-infrastructure-workforce

 

For the latest status update for our Screaming Circuits prototype and on-demand manufacturing division, please see: blog.screamingcircuits.com.

For the latest status updates for our San Diego PCB Design PCB layout group, please see: sdpcb.com/blog.

Rick McClain, President and COO joins with other industry experts to weigh in on the impact of recent import tariffs.

Milwaukee Electronics president Rick McClain said that while they are not seeing any indication that customers plan to move production, their Mexico facility can accommodate additional production for customers that wish to use a NAFTA strategy to mitigate tariffs…

Read the full article here

On behalf of Milwaukee Electronics, it is an honor to announce the newly promoted Technical Sales – Manager of Special Accounts in the Design Engineering group, Larry Holten. This position has been created in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin location to enhance Design sales growth in strategic account areas in our company due to their growth opportunities, in support of our electronic and PCBA manufacturing facilities.

In addition, Larry will continue to act as the technical resource to the Corporate Sales Group for new opportunities, leads, and website updating.  Our primary focus for this position, though, is being created to pursue account growth.

 

Over the last quarter, Screaming Circuits has upgraded the hardware and software on all its Mydata equipment.

“Since we created Screaming Circuits, MyData machines have been an important part of our formula for success. As we integrated a MY12 into one of our production lines, we saw the opportunity to make upgrades across all our MyData lines and standardize them,” said Ashley Rochholz, Screaming Circuits’ Manufacturing Manager.

The upgrades included new cameras providing improved optics on all machines, software revision level upgrades, new hard drives and a new server.

The optics are particularly important be-cause as a quick turn prototype house, Screaming Circuits must deal with a wide variety of component styles and packaging types. Not all received material places well. The upgraded optics are identifying issues faster and providing more detailed error codes, which decreases the time needed to correct the issue. The new server has reduced programming and offline setup time.

The addition of the MY12 has also enabled the team to increase throughput.

“With the addition of this machine, we were able to take an older MyData ma-chine offline. We are now using it to experiment with offline setup strategies, while the MY12 has provided some nice efficiency gains,” added Ashley.

Ashley estimates that overall, the improvements have increased efficiency by 140 percent.

As seen in the latest newsletter:

Exciting things are happening at Milwaukee Electronics. Last month we announced a merger with San Diego PCB and we’ve also analyzed the results of our annual customer satisfaction survey.

The San Diego PCB merger is significant because it rounds out our complement of engineering and manufacturing service offerings. Mike Creeden, San Diego PCB’s owner and now our VP of Layout Services will discuss the capability additions in detail in our Engineering in Action article. From my perspective, I see this as very beneficial to both our companies. We chose to call it a San Diego PCB Merger Announced merger because we recognize that the bulk of the value in San Diego PCB is its expert, certified team. They employ some of the best designers in the world and match them with the best CAD tools. We see this team as a strong complement to our engineering resources and wanted to acknowledge the bench strength they represent appropriately.

Another key element that makes this merger extremely beneficial to all parties is our cultural alignment. Mike’s focus is delivering a Rev 1 that has been executed well enough to eliminate the need for further spins. Our focus is delivering perfect product. Together we will both continue that “be the best of the best” culture. We also both believe in listening to the customer. Even when the customer is saying that he or she only wants a specific service rather than all the services we sell. We built Screaming Circuits around the value proposition that you can buy as little or as much as you wanted from us. We will continue that mindset. We offer a full a lifecycle solution that includes layout services. We also sell just layout services.

Listening to the customer is also what drives our annual customer satisfaction survey. This year we saw customer participation rates drop slightly. However, we saw generally improved performance ratings across all locations. There are still specific issues we will be addressing. Cost and changing technology are the most significant concerns among our customers. We plan investments over the coming year that will continue to drive improvements in our responsiveness, ability to support advanced technology and efficiency.

One particularly interesting data point in our Screaming Circuits survey was that over 44 percent of our customers in that business unit are now Millennials. We are continuing to evaluate our customer experience and ordering tools with that metric in mind.

I’d like to wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Healthy New Year. Thank you for your support and business.

P. Michael Stoehr

President & CEO

View our LinkedIn page for additional updates.

On Sept. 5th, Milwaukee Electronics’ Portland facility passed its certification audit to ISO 13485:2003, the quality management system focused on medical device manufacturing. “We pursued this certification to better support the needs of our medical customers. Our team did an outstanding job of updating our procedures to support our certification effort,” said Pam Kimbrough, the facility’s Operations Manager. Milwaukee Electronics will pursue ISO 13485:2003 in other facilities as customer requirements drive the need.

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David Casio Milwaukee Electronics CFO

Milwaukee, WI – David Cascio has joined Milwaukee Electronics as chief financial officer. He previously served as senior financial director for Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) Americas with Johnson Controls, Inc. He was earlier associated with Modine Manufacturing Company, Bosch Rexroth Corporation and Woodward in a variety of finance and accounting management roles.

“Dave brings over 26 years of experience in organizational improvement initiative implementation, strategic planning, cost analysis, ERP systems optimization and contract negotiation experience. The bulk of his career has been spent overseeing these activities in multinational operations which aligns well with the direction our business has taken over the last few years. I see him as a key asset in our team as we continue to evolve and expand our operations,” said P. Michael Stoehr, Milwaukee Electronics’ president and CEO.

“I’m excited about joining a dynamic company in a demanding industry. I look forward to applying my experience with best-in-class processes to help Milwaukee Electronics continue to grow and improve,” added Cascio.

Cascio received his Master of Business Administration degree from Northern Illinois University and his Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from Rockford University.

Milwaukee Electronics designs and manufactures custom circuit board assemblies for the medical, transportation, military, HVAC and a variety of other industries. The Company operates over 135,000 square feet of manufacturing in Portland, Oregon; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Tecate, Mexico. In addition to EMS and product design and engineering services, it offers quick-turn prototyping through its Screaming Circuits business unit.

 

Contact: Jered Stoehr, V.P. Sales and Marketing
Tel: 503-263-9109
Email: jstoehr@MilwaukeeElectronics.com
www.MilwaukeeElectronics.com