This involves a plant tour for Dan Bridget, account supervisor at Pleiades, and account executive Dan Mazur. The tour is led by Kevin Pickett, Perfection's high-energy project manager and the person charged with overseeing the certification process. The building is used to store custom-designed aluminum extrusions. The aluminum pieces eventually become magazines that hold and transport circuit-board components such as IC chips, transistors, and resistors. The magazines are made to fit each customer's semiconductor fabrication machines, and thus are customized in terms of size, features, and even color of anodizing.
Perfection sells magazines and carriers for the semiconductor industry worldwide.
9000 certification will help them win new customers in new markets. It is the sturdiness and exacting tolerances of these one-piece extrusions that initially propelled Perfection into a leadership position over competitors who were still supplying flimsier magazines constructed of several pieces. Perfection's designs, made in close cooperation with customers, have garnered several design awards. Sometimes the initial idea for the magazine is something that can't be efficiently extruded, and we make modifications. We're usually under time constraints because the magazines are the last thing manufacturers think of when designing a new semiconductor plant or line.