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At SEA, your project is treated with care and attention. Every project is assigned to a program manager, who oversees the progress of your projects. They are also your focal point for communications and aim for total team commitment with you the customers, delivering total satisfaction with the end result. Program managers are essential to satisfy SEA’s goal of an error-free process.

Here are some responsibilities of program managers:
  • Ensure that assemblies are built to industry and customer specifications
  • Ensure seamless flow of production
  • Update customers with the status of their assemblies
  • Contact customers so that they are always aware of the status of their products
  • Provide the best solutions to customer questions and concerns in a timely manner
  • Ensure that products are shipped on schedule
  • Establish an enduring and positive relationship with our customers

Along with the customers BOM and CAD data program managers use state-of-the-art computer software to assist in the assembly planning and process. We utilize Circuitcam and Checkpoint software for all production planning, improving on the production and inspection process. Program managers use the Checkpoint and Circuitcam software to aid the production and inspection process. Checkpoint imports our customer’s BOM’s and is integrated with Circuitcam to produce a detailed and colored drawing of the assemblies.

Some benefits of the software are:
  • The Checkpoint drawing is combined with our production planning to ensure seamless integration on the production floor
  • Checkpoint allows program managers to check for discrepancies on customer’s parts list (BOM) prior to production
  • Circuitcam is capable of integrating production planning with our SMT and AOI programming, functioning as a multi-task software
  • We utilize colored coded drawings generated by Circuitcam in our production planning. This saves time and prevents mistakes during the pre-production, production, and inspection processes

To ensure proper use of the Checkpoint and Circuitcam software, the following are needed (you can download our BOM & CAD requirements above):
  • CAD data of assembly (For more information on types of CAD data, see www.aiscorp.com)
  • If no CAD data exists, Gerber data may be accepted as an alternate (RS-274D or RS-274X formats, RS-274D requires an aperture file). Both solder mask and silk screen layers are required. Gerber data take longer to process using the Circuitcam software, therefore is much less desirable then CAD data.
  • An excel formatted BOM is desirable, but not necessary

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