Karla Osorno EE Technologies, Inc. Electronics manufacturing service providers in Mexico and the U.S., earn their contracts based upon the quality of the manufactured end product that they deliver to their customers. If a project starts on the wrong foot, this will be reflected in the quality of the end product. The beginning of the process for turn-key manufacturing electronics manufacturing services companies like EE Technologies is to procure parts based on customer documentation including bills of material. Do this right, or the next contract will go to the company who can do so consistently.

Mid-market providers are responding to OEM desires for more regional approach.  As wages continue to rise in China and fuel costs escalate worldwide, some North American manufacturers are reevaluating their global operations to determine if production locations are optimal. This is reinvigorating discussion among EMS providers over whether China or Mexico is the best site for lower-cost production.

Headquartered in Reno, Nevada, EE Technologies is an electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider that produces electronic circuit boards and electromechanical assemblies that go into final products like cars, ultrasound machines, slot machines, large construction equipment, food processing equipment, safety traffic equipment, and physics experiment classroom equipment.

Sonny Newman is the President of EE Technologies, a premier contract manufacturing partner that provides global electronics manufacturing services. The most important attributes to Sonny's first key leadership hires when he started his company in 2000 were commitment, trustworthiness, and job knowledge.

EE Technologies, Clay McElhany, Sonny Newman

Printed Circuit Boards without Borders

Special Events Editor Kelly Dack sits down to chat with EE Technologies President Sonny Newman and Director of Operations Clay McElhany. They discuss the company, their customers and their creativity in providing contract manufacturing by utilizing operations located in both Northern Nevada and Mexico.

U.S. manufacturers are successful south of the border, despite the drug cartels, government corruption and utility monopolies.  

No matter how you look at it:  Mexico is in closer geographic proximity to the U.S. than China and other parts of Asia, including another rising low-cost manufacturing country, Vietnam.  Companies like EE Technologies discovered the advantages of electronic manufacturing in Mexico and increased their competitiveness.

HR leaders might be seeing a new ally among managers—Chartered Global Management Accountants (CGMAs).

The American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) in New York and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) in London launched the new designation on Jan. 31, 2012. The organizations want to elevate the management accounting profession and to help address what they say is the lack of measurement of nonfinancial information.  Elizabeth Duffrin, Chief Financial Officer, of EE Technologies is one of the premier group of CPAs who have been recognized with the Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA) designation.

Interview with: Sonny Newman, Founder and President of EE Technologies with The American Entrepreneur Radio

Originally aired January 24, 2012