Home Company Services Markets Quality Blog Careers Contact Info Quality Quality Management System Our approach to quality is a simple one: quality product on time, every time. 4FRONT has Implemented a very strict Quality Management System compliant to leading edge industry standards, to minimize risk and ensure safety and reliability of the products we manufacture. Quality Our Quality Policy Certifications and Equipment Sets Lean & Six Sigma Initiatives Lean and Six Sigma Initiatives 4FRONT has embraced a continuous improvement initiative with the ongoing use of Lean and Six Sigma principles throughout the company. Prioritizing Lean and Six Sigma initiatives are a significant part of 4FRONT's culture and touches all of our functional departments -- Sales, Finance, Supply Chain, Operations, etc. Our dedication to these principles has enabled 4FRONT to improve manufacturing efficiency, reduce variations, defects and costs; allowing us to deliver a more reliable product in the most cost effective manner for our customers. Goals Reduced Set-up Time Improve Factory Velocity (cycle time) Increase Inventory Turn Improve 1st Pass and Final Yields Reduce Costs Executing Lean Initiatives Design For Excellence Lean initiatives begin at the new product introduction phase. 4FRONT prefers to be involved and provide support as early in the design phase as possible. The goal is cost avoidance - making your product easy to source, manufacture and test. We are eager to provide support for: Design for Procurement Design for Manufacturability Design for Testability Process A critical challenge in the EMS industry is effectively dealing with small lot sizes over a wide range of customers and product types. In order to keep manufacturing costs at a minimum, EMS must improve manufacturing velocity through waste elimination. How we eliminate waste: Common Equipment Platform Easy-of-flow Manufacturing Layout Point of Use Material Off-Line Loading Quick Changeover Equipment Sets Paperless Work Instructions Detailed Labor Tracking (Barcode) FGI Programs Visible/Real-Time Metrics Personnel We value and invest in our people. We have an in-house learning center where they receive hands-on training by certified personnel for J-STD, IPC, and process specific training. As part of our lean initiatives, we cross-train and certify all of our operators to handle several production processes. The individual skill levels are maintained and managed using an employee matrix. In order to incentivize, employee compensation is tied to the certification levels achieved. Utilizing our MES system, operators are only allowed to access work instructions for those processes for which they have been certified. We are proud to say that 80% of our people are trained to J-STD-001 soldering techniques, putting 4FRONT well ahead of industry standard and making us the #2 manufacturer in PA in personnel with this accreditation. Home Company Services Markets Quality Contact Terms & Conditions © 2021 4FRONT Solutions, LLC - All Rights Reserved USA Owned and Operated