Spirit Announces In-House Board Assembly Services

Board Assembly Contract Manufacturing Featured News Pick and Place

Like chips falling into place on a printed circuit board, Spirit’s new contract manufacturing services have arrived in our growing list of full turnkey solutions.

We now offer in-house board assembly. Customers can order a bill of materials through Spirit’s authorized OEMs. We inspect and screen your parts. Then we pick and place the parts on the board, perform system-level testing on the finished board, and the board arrives at your dock fully traceable and qualified.

Spirit can manage boards from 50 mm x 50 mm up to 810 mm x 480 mm. Our top-of-the-line equipment can pick and place parts ranging from ultra-small chips to the largest FPGAs.

Our in-house line is capable of surface mount, through-hole and mixed technology assemblies, able to trace a part all the way down to the reference designator on the board.

Assembly services can be custom tailored to your board. Spirit’s screening of both parts and fully assembled systems lets you manage high-reliability requirements and performance. Our account representatives can provide support and data throughout the process to give you visibility into your production schedule and results.

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Roadmap to Zero Defects

Roadmap to Zero Defects

ELES uses Reliability Embedded Test Engineering (RETE) to help manufacturers improve their semiconductor design and component reliability. In the latest episode of our Spirit: Behind the Screen podcast, Marco Paolucci and Marti McCurdy discuss how the ELES approach is a safety net to prevent dangerous product failures. 

ELES is an Italian manufacturer of test equipment and systems that exercise and qualify semiconductors around the world. Marco Paolucci is the sales and business development director delivering the ELES zero defect goal to Spirit and the US.

Marco explains how the ELES approach is a safety net to prevent dangerous product failures.

Your test and qualification process is only as good as your test equipment. Not only is Spirit building out a test lab with the best equipment on the market, but we are also offering capital equipment sales to support your test programs. Visit spiritelectronics.com/capital-equipment-sales/ to learn more.

Spirit Electronics Awarded HUBZone Certification

Spirit Electronics, a Veteran-Owned, Woman-Owned Small Business (VOWOSB, SDB) that provides electronic component distribution and value-added services to the Aerospace and Defense industry is pleased to announce its certification as a HUBZone business by the United States Small Business Administration (SBA).

Spirit Electronics is now eligible for HUBZone opportunities and is included on the list of certified HUBZone small business concerns. As a HUBZone-certified business, Spirit Electronics and its customers are able to further support economic growth and opportunity in Historically Underutilized Business Zones (HUBZones). 

To achieve HUBZone Certification, Spirit had to meet a range of criteria that included its principal office being located in a Federally-mapped HUBZone area and 35% or more of its employees residing within HUBZone regions. Spirit also had to submit to a comprehensive application process that confirmed these and other stringent requirements as set forth by the program. As a certified HUBZone small business concern, Spirit may receive program benefits, including eligibility for HUBZone set-aside awards, HUBZone sole source awards, the HUBZone Price Evaluation Preference in full and open competition, and HUBZone reserves.

“Through the HubZone program, we are able to hire and train well qualified candidates, many of them in our own city of Phoenix,” says Marti McCurdy, Spirit Electronics’ owner and CEO. “Through our certification, our customers also support HUBZone residents and development, which is especially meaningful to our Aerospace and Defense industry.”

“We continue to expand our capabilities and offerings, and invest in the community around us. I am proud of our company’s impact on our community and look forward to growing our business in a meaningful way.” 
 

About Spirit Electronics:

For more than four decades, Spirit Electronics has been a valued distributor and partner to key technology sectors, especially aerospace and defense. Our status as a VOWOSB, SDB company provides diversity requirement relief to defense and aerospace customers.

Spirit specifically offers a wide range of electronic components and world-class value-added services, including SMI, Wafer and Component Electrical Testing, Design, Contract Manufacturing Services, and End-of-Life Management. 

Spirit Electronics is located in Phoenix, AZ, with sales offices in New England, San Jose and Irvine, CA.

Federal agencies strive to maintain 3% of all annual contracts to be set-aside for certified small businesses, which provides Spirit Electronics, as a WOVOSB and HUBZone certified, with increased opportunities when pursuing specified Federal IT contracts.

Zef Malik and Bridging the Gap: How Testing Adds Value in the Supply Chain

Bridging the Gap between Manufacturer and Customer

In Episode 4 of Behind the Screen podcast, Zef describes how the manufacturer’s goal is to build and design quality into their product, while the customer may have more demanding specs and tests to meet for military verification. As a value-add distributor, Spirit supports a dynamic supply chain between the manufacturer and our customer. Our role as a distributor in product screening is to bridge that gap between manufacturer and customer. But it’s not just making sure that the tests are run to the standard. Zef and Marti discuss how adding value includes the relationship and process knowledge we share with the manufacturer and understanding the performance needs of the customer. Zef explains the value in delivering a customer all the product verification controls they’re looking for with a big-picture understanding of inventory management, time and cost savings, and predictability. Marti wraps up the chat by explaining that this global view and Spirit’s ownership of product warranty is what we call “Owning the Qual.“

Listen to the podcast.

Spirit: Behind the Screen Podcast, Episode 2

Behind the Screen Podcast 2

Zef Malik and the DDR4: Can Your Product Perform?

In this new episode of our Spirit: Behind the Screen! podcast, Zef talks with Marti McCurdy about why the Aerospace and Defense market needs to test DDR4 at high speeds, temps and conditions to guarantee optimal performance in military applications. And it needs an expert understanding of the product to make that happen. They also discuss how testing in A&D needs to shift from individual parts to System Level Testing (SLT) to keep up with the millions of possible combinations a chip may see on a board. 

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Radiation Tolerance for Space

Spirit Electronics is featured in an article about high-performance, radiation tolerant electronics for space in this month’s issue of Military & Aerospace Electronics magazine. Editor John Keller explores options for balancing costs, capability, size, weight and power consumption for new space designs:

“Among the approaches for producing space electronics components that blend affordability and capability is screening and testing to uncover those commercial grade-parts that can withstand space radiation on their own, as well as making some enhancements to electronics that testing identifies as already radiation tolerant.” 

Marti McCurdy, Spirit’s CEO, addresses test and value-add services that provide reliable yet affordable components.

“‘We are on the test side, and can upscreen or do any value-add for the customer,’ says Marti McCurdy, owner and CEO of Spirit Electronics in Phoenix. ‘We offer a high-value proposition, and only operate in the mil-aero sector.'”

Read the full article.

"In the test world, we are starting to move away from component-level and into the systems world... The commercial world has been in this area for a few years now, and the aerospace and defense market is just getting there now."

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BAE Systems Honors Spirit with a Gold Tier Award

BAE Systems' Gold Tier Supplier Award

Spirit Electronics, a value-added electronics distributor based in Phoenix, Arizona, today announced it won a Gold Tier Award for exceptional performance and contributions to supply chain success in 2019 for BAE Systems’ Electronic Systems sector. Spirit Electronics was selected from a pool of more than 2,200 suppliers that worked with the sector in 2019.

“This achievement is a direct result of our extensive investment in our ERP system along with our committed Account Managers and outstanding quality team,” said Marti McCurdy, Spirit’s CEO. “Our unwavering commitment to our customers drives all we do.”

BAE Systems’ Partner 2 Win program is designed to achieve operational excellence and eliminate defects in its supply chain by raising the bar of performance expectations to meet the demand of current and future customers. As part of the program, BAE Systems meets regularly with its suppliers at their locations to transfer best practices to ensure that the components and materials that compose BAE Systems products meet the highest quality standards.

“We are proud to partner with companies – including Spirit Electronics – committed to delivering the highest quality products on-time, every time,” said Kim Cadorette, vice president of Operations for BAE Systems’ Electronic Systems sector. “We look forward to continued collaboration and success.” 

About BAE Systems

BAE Systems provides some of the world’s most advanced, technology-led defense, aerospace, and security solutions. The company employs a skilled workforce of more than 83,000 employees worldwide and operations in 30 U.S. states. Working with customers and local partners, BAE Systems develops, engineers, manufactures, and supports products and systems to deliver military capability, protect national security and people, and keep critical information and infrastructure secure.

About Spirit Electronics

For more than four decades, Spirit Electronics has been a valued distributor and partner to key technology sectors. Our status as a VOWOSB, SDB company provides diversity requirement relief to defense and aerospace customers. 

Spirit specifically offers a wide range of electronic components and world-class value-added services, including SMI, Wafer and Component Electrical Testing, Design, Assembly, and End-of-Life Management. For more information, visit www.spiritelectronics.com.

Spirit Electronics is located in Phoenix, AZ, with sales offices in San Jose and Irvine, CA.

Spirit Electronics Adds Micron Memory Solutions

Micron

Micron DDR4Spirit Electronics today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Micron to supply its innovative memory solutions that ensure the best application performance for memory storage. 

Micron manufactures the industry’s broadest portfolio of memory and storage technologies: DRAM, NAND, NOR and 3D XPoint™ memory. Micron solutions are sparking new possibilities in everything from computing, networking, and server applications, to mobile, consumer, automotive and industrial designs.

The addition of the Micron product portfolio further strengthens Spirit’s offering in a broad range of electronic components and high reliability applications, including aerospace, defense, AI and secure communications.

Spirit Electronics is a veteran-owned, woman-owned business that provides superior supply-chain solutions and electronic component distribution for global technology leaders in the aerospace, defense and communication industries. From fighter jets to guided missiles, Spirit plays a vital role in supplying world-class products and services to meet the highly demanding and rapidly changing needs of its clients.

“We are excited to offer Micron products to our customers, knowing that their memory technology enables advanced application development,” said Marti McCurdy, CEO of Spirit Electronics.  “Our current engagement in the industry with DDR4 applications makes this distribution channel a valued treasure for Spirit; it ties our Xilinx, TI and EPC GaN parts together nicely.  

For more information on Micron and its product portfolio please visit micron.com.