Martha Ocegueda - Spectra Symbol is pleased to award Martha Ocegueda Employee of the Month for November! Martha is recognized as being a hard worker. Martha’s coworkers also wanted to recognize her as an amazing teammate who is kind as well as consistent in her work. Martha is always willing to learn something new and has worked on every line! Thank you Martha for always coming to work with an excellent attitude and curiosity. Congratulations!

The following individuals have been recently promoted:

• Lisandra (Sandy) Ramirez - is now the Inventory Supervisor

• Myra Rose - is now the Shipment Senior Lead

Congratulations and thank you to each of you for your hard work and dedication, and for helping us all be successful!

  8 Dec National Cookie Day

12 Dec Gingerbread House Day

15 Dec National Hot Cocoa and Cupcake Day

19 Dec National Emo Day

29 Dec National Bacon Day

Important Company Events:

  8 Dec Cookies with Santa, meet with Santa, 5 PM

15 Dec Company Christmas Party and Luncheon (see flyers for details) ***

24 Dec  Spectra Symbol closed in observance of the Christmas Holiday!

*** Put it on your calendar: Spectra Symbol Christmas Banquet will be December 15th.  We will be going to the Old Spaghetti Factory from 2 PM - 4 PM, and will have games and activities in the breakroom prior to that, from Noon to 1 PM!  We hope you can make it! ***

Harold G. Schaevitz Industries has been in business since 2006, though the founders have been in their field since 1981. They produce a wide range of sensors for industrial and automotive applications. These include position, temperature, pressure sensors, and the electronics to control them.

Spectra Symbol provides HGSI with thin HotPots for their linear position sensors. Their enclosures and hardware make it simple for customers to connect the sensors to their systems. These can be wired to HGSI’s sensor interface or the customer’s electronics. In short, Spectra provides the sensors and HGSI helps its customers get the best use out of them.

(Note: HGSI is using our sensors in a custom product, not their general sensors.)

This month I have been asked to help clarify something that we've all probably seen on a production planner and that is the "-C" suffix in the part evolution.  This suffix is used to designate the circuit assembly but what is a "Circuit Assembly" and aren't all our parts just circuit assemblies?

Technically everything we make is an assembly of layers creating some sort of circuit.  For example, Spectra Symbol's standard potentiometers are all assemblies of 4 layers that create a circuit that can be used as variable resistors, potentiometers, or rudimentary position sensors.  However, for Spectra Symbol, a "circuit assembly" is used to designate a specific point in the manufacturing process where the assembly can be stocked as that assembly.  Then, at a later date, it can be issued to a different job and the remainder of the work completed to create the finished part.

This designation has been used for a few decades and stems from the days when Spectra Symbol began its foray into printing circuits.  It was important to have a point in the manufacturing process where any assembled and die-cut circuit layers could be entered into stock, either as a placeholder for extra work-in-process (WIP) or for a common circuit that was used over multiple designs.  An example today would be our stock pots.  Circuit Assemblies, not only allow us to stock excess WIP but we can also use it to store our stock pot circuit assemblies without connectors applied.  This way Spectra Symbol doesn't have to carry a large inventory of circuits with every connector option, which saves us cash.  

Today we see the "-C" designation on many of our old planners and our old MRP system but, recently, it began to be phased out and retired.  However, with the implementation of our new MRP system called JobBOSS, the team has decided that Spectra Symbol will need to keep the designation and now we will begin to see it as a standard part of our planners and stocking systems again, so keep an eye out for it.

I hope this helps to clarify the terminology and better understand the lingo of circuit assemblies.  If you have more questions about this or any other designations listed in our planners, I would recommend reaching out to our Design Team or production planning team and they can help you better understand how and why they are used.

You can find an interactive version and the answers HERE.

No payouts this month (December 2023)

As a reminder here is how the referral program works.

• Have your referral fill out our Employment Application

• Get paid out $100 after their first week of employment

• Get paid out $400 after 6 months of employment

• Get paid out $500 after their 1 year of employment