What are the benefits of IATF 16949 for customers?

• An IATF 16949 certification shows a commitment to quality, attracting, and retaining customers. Companies that adhere to the standard offer enhanced product excellence.
• Rochester Electronics’ standard elevates product quality while reducing waste by prioritizing ongoing enhancements, error-proofing, and defect prevention.
• Implementing the IATF 16949 standard enhances efficiency, develops a zero-defects culture, and boosts profitability.
• IATF 16949 is the leading quality management standard for the automotive industry, recognized worldwide for providing a competitive advantage. The certification is required by top automotive manufacturers and OEMs.

How does Rochester ensure a commitment to quality for our customers?

Rochester is well-equipped to serve customers. With a drive toward innovation, constant proactive approaches, an understanding of international and risk-heavy markets, high-grade products, and concern for the end user, Rochester has been recognized for its commitment to quality assurance.

To meet the stringent requirements of IATF 16949, Rochester reviewed all internal manufacturing processes, focusing on continuous improvement. Rochester sought and found solutions to better serve our customers. Rochester maintains compliance with ISO standards, CSRs, and regulatory requirements through an integrated Quality System. Our approach includes:

• Internal audits: Conducting product, process, and system audits.
• Customer Focus: Ensuring compliance with various customer-specific requirements.
• Industry Involvement: Actively participate in industry bodies like AIAG and subscribe to I2I.
• Core Tools: Implement mandatory automotive core tools.
• Process Approach: Emphasizing risk management, documentation, and record retention.
• Continuous monitoring: Regularly monitoring processes.
• Corrective Action: Enforcing rigorous corrective and preventive actions.
• Keep considerations: Addressing diverse markets and regulatory environments.

Meanwhile, Rochester always seeks to improve our standards and processes with proactive approaches and examinations of areas we might improve. This is done through the use of the Plan-Do-Check-Act Cycle. Thinking ahead, testing what works, and implementing successful solutions are at the heart of Rochester’s planning. Rigorous risk analysis is conducted across all processes, implementing systems to mitigate/eliminate risk further.

All of this is for the benefit of our customers. What we have demonstrated under our adherence to the IATF 16949 standard is not just applied to the automotive sector. Instead, proactive, customer-first planning is at the heart of what we do. Reliability for consistent performances is an utmost priority. Ensuring that product safety meets the highest industry standards, with a warranty of long product life, support, and performance, can always be certain.

The use of semiconductor electronics in automotive applications has expanded rapidly over the last decades and continues to be one of the fastest-growing market segments. As a result, the semiconductor supply chain has become integral to a manufacturer’s product planning. With a range of semiconductor manufacturing capabilities, Rochester Electronics supports its customers with individual services through to full turnkey manufacturing.

Crucially, ensuring product longevity is a requirement in the automotive industry. While car models may change yearly, the underlying components and assemblies can remain in use for many years, considering the warranty or recall process. Many vehicle manufacturers require aftermarket parts or service support for 15 years after vehicle production has ended. Rochester Electronics provides a continuous semiconductor source that aligns with manufacturers' long lifecycle and quality requirements in the automotive and numerous other long-life system industries.

Rochester’s manufacturing capabilities

Rochester offers ongoing manufacturing from known-good-die and test products according to the original test procedures. Rochester has produced over 20,000 device types, ranging from new silicon to assembly, test, and qualification. With over twelve billion die in stock, we have the capability to manufacture over 70,000 device types.

Rochester licensed manufactured solutions are current date code, sold with full approval under the original manufacturer’s part number, and are 100% compliant with the original datasheet specification.

In some cases, Rochester-manufactured solutions have extended the life of applications by 25 years from the original component manufacturer’s end-of-life date.

• Manufactured using information transferred directly to Rochester from the original component manufacturer (OCM).
• Ongoing manufacturing of stock products.
• Build-to-order products.
• Process flows include Commercial, Industrial, and Military Temperature, MIL-STD-883, SMD/QML, and Space-Level S/V.
• A range of industry-standard packaging with a variety of lead finishes, including Sn, SnPb, and RoHS.

Rochester offers a full range of manufacturing services, including wafer storage, wafer processing, assembly, testing, reliability, and analytical services. It provides single solutions to full turnkey manufacturing, enabling faster time to market.

Rochester’s commitment to environmental preservation and waste prevention

Rochester Electronics is steadfast in its commitment to environmentally sustainable processes, pollution prevention, and a continual improvement focus on our manufacturing and distribution operations. Across all sectors of Rochester’s business, the goal of maintaining and protecting Earth’s environment is a core pillar of the business.

Rochester has certified that 100% of standard production hazardous waste streams are “Zero Waste to Landfill.” This means all hazardous waste Rochester Electronics creates during manufacturing has been and will be fully recycled, repurposed, reclaimed, or reused. Waste will never be sent to be buried or to a landfill, eliminating all legacy waste.

Developing a high-quality product eliminates the risk of impacting safety and the environment due to defects.

As an authorized after-market distributor, Rochester receives surplus devices directly from the original component manufacturers. In the past, these surplus components were scrapped rather than allowed to re-enter the market in a controlled manner, leading to considerable waste.

By the nature of Rochester’s business, ensuring product continuity and lengthening lifecycles creates long-term clean business practices. Fewer devices are sent to landfills, less energy needs to be spent on product creation, fewer emissions are created by transportation, and energy will not need to be expended in device implementation. By keeping current products functioning, resources do not need to be spent on expensive implementations.

Rochester Electronics’ business practices are to offer exceptional quality, support, and concern for our customers. We are committed to extending the life of long-life systems saving our customers money and time, and safeguarding reliability.

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