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IMS wins Lockheed-Martin Supplier Award.


International Manufacturing Services Inc. (IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem.

(2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS.
, Portsmouth Portsmouth, city, England
Portsmouth, city (1991 pop. 174,218) and district, Hampshire, S England, on Spithead Channel. The district includes Portsea (naval station), Southsea (residential district and resort), and the old town of Portsmouth proper.
, RI, www.ims-resistors.com), a supplier of thick and thin film chip resistors and chip attenuators to the electronics manufacturing This article presents a typical manufacturing process of an electronic assembly. Component manufacturing
Components such as resistors, capacitors and integrated circuits are generally made by specialized contractors.
 industry, has been named a recipient of the Lockheed Martin For the former company, see .

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is a leading multinational aerospace manufacturer and advanced technology company formed in 1995 by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta.
 (LM) STAR Supplier--Facility Award.

Lockheed Martin recognizes IMS' management and employees at the Portsmouth facility as one of the top-performing suppliers to LM. Lockheed Martin chose only five vendors out of 2,000 to receive the award this year.

The award was presented recently at a special ceremony at the IMS facility by Charlie Bosley, director of quality and mission success at LM Systems Integration.

The award is given only to suppliers who distinguish themselves by meeting stringent performance criteria. To join the group of STAR Suppliers, IMS achieved 100 percent quality and 100 percent delivery for all products provided to LM for a minimum of one year. Additionally, IMS met the established criteria for LM's Supplier Performance Evaluation Performance evaluation

The assessment of a manager's results, which involves, first, determining whether the money manager added value by outperforming the established benchmark (performance measurement) and, second, determining how the money manager achieved the calculated return
 of quality, delivery, affordability and management/administration.
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Publication:Circuits Assembly
Article Type:Brief Article
Date:Mar 1, 2003
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