APW Enclosures - Premier Operations Receives Quality Award.SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 14, 1998--APW Enclosures announced today that its Premier Operations plant in Hudson, New Hampshire Hudson is a town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA. The population was 22,928 at the 2000 census. History Hudson began as part of the Dunstable Land Grant that encompassed the current city of Nashua, New Hampshire, as well as Dunstable and Pepperell, has been honored by the Granite State Quality Council for their achievements and commitment to quality. Granite State Quality Council Chairman Thomas Raffio presented the Granite State Quality Achievement Recognition award to Premier's Executive Vice President and General Manager, Charles LaMarca at a luncheon ceremony at the fourth annual Quality Conference held at the Wayfarer Inn Conference Center in Bedford, NH. "We are very pleased that our people at Premier have been recognized for their achievements in quality," said APW APW All Pro Wrestling APW Altmar Parish Williamstown (School District; Parish, New York) APW Add-Printer Wizard (Microsoft Windows) APW Augmented Plane Wave APW Apparent Polar Wander Enclosures President Bob Kroon kroon n. pl. kroon·i See Table at currency. [Estonian, from German Krone, from Middle High German kr . "This is the result of our continuing commitment to customer-focused and quality conscious operations, where our relationship is that of partner, not merely vendor." The Granite State Quality Council is modeled on the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award program administered by the American Society for Quality American Society for Quality (ASQ), formerly known as American Society for Quality Control (ASQC), is a knowledge-based global community of quality control experts, with nearly 100,000 members dedicated to the promotion and advancement of quality tools, principles, and and the National Institute of Standards and Technology National Institute of Standards and Technology, governmental agency within the U.S. Dept. of Commerce with the mission of "working with industry to develop and apply technology, measurements, and standards" in the national interest. . Companies conduct a self-assessment using the Baldridge criteria, and then apply to the Granite State Quality Council for a review of their accomplishments. Martin Lantagne, Director of Quality at Premier, said that the Baldridge self-assessment has strengthened the firm's commitment to customer satisfaction. "That's the driving force. . . attempting to be world-class," he said. APW Enclosures is a World Class Manufacturing Company headquartered in San Jose with additional U.S. facilities in Anaheim, Dallas, and Portsmouth and European facilities in Dublin, Ireland for producing custom and modified standard electronic enclosures for the OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and . APW also has distribution facilities in Holland and Singapore. Capabilities of APW Enclosures include Full System Integration, SMT (1) (Surface Mount Technology) See surface mount. (2) (Station ManagemenT) An FDDI network management protocol that provides direct management. Only one node requires the software. SMT - Station Management Assembly, Supply Chain Management, Cable and Harness Assembly, Design Engineering, Tool and Mold Making, Precision Metalworking, Engineered Plastics, Production Machining, Finishing Systems and Processes, and value-added Services. All operations are conducted in accordance with procedures and documentation to ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9000. The primary business of APW Enclosures is to design, manufacture and integrate custom, standard, and modified standard enclosures for the computer, medical, telecommunications, semiconductor, and embedded computer device industries. APW has received many quality and recognition awards from its customers, including the Gold Seal Suppliers Award from HP in Europe, Qualcomm's 1997 Mechanical Supplier of the year Award, NET's only Gold Supplier Award ever given to any commodity, and the Xerox World Certificate Award. APW Enclosures is part of the Technical Equipment and Enclosures Division of Applied Power, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange / APW) headquartered in Butler, WI.
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