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KYOCERA AVX Earns a Prestigious Gold Level 2021 TTI Europe Supplier Excellence Award
June 16, 2022 | KYOCERAEstimated reading time: 1 minute
KYOCERA AVX, a leading global manufacturer of advanced electronic components engineered to accelerate technological innovation and build a better future, has received a Gold Level 2021 TTI Europe Supplier Excellence Award for the third consecutive year. Bestowed by TTI, Inc., the world’s leading authorized specialty distributor of interconnect, passive, and electromechanical (IP&E) components, the award recognizes KYOCERA AVX for faithfully fulfilling numerous quality performance metrics designed to elevate supplier and distributor performance and achieve maximum customer satisfaction in Europe. The Gold Level 2021 award also marks the fifth time that KYOCERA AVX has earned this prestigious honor in the past six years.
TTI’s Supplier Excellence Awards represent the highest possible recognition of a supplier’s annual performance as it relates to quality acceptance, ship-to-commit delivery date, effective business systems, ease of doing business, and both the quality and efficacy of field employee and management relationships. The Gold Level 2021 TTI Europe Supplier Excellence Award specifically celebrates KYOCERA AVX for the successful fulfillment of crucial performance metrics including on-time delivery, receiving quality, customer-reported quality, administrative quality, operations and business systems, and sales and management support.
“We are very pleased to have the opportunity to recognize KYOCERA AVX amongst the high achievers in our annual TTI Europe Supplier Excellence Award Program for the third consecutive year and the fifth time in the past six years,” said Geoff Breed, Vice President, Marketing, TTI Europe. “This significant achievement represents the hard work and dedication of KYOCERA AVX employees as well as the company’s comprehensive commitment to operational excellence and delivering outstanding customer service and satisfaction. All of us at TTI Europe extend our sincere gratitude to the KYOCERA AVX team for consistently providing exceptional quality, on-time delivery, and optimal customer service.”
“We are very proud to have earned a TTI Europe Supplier Excellence Award for the third consecutive year and the fifth time in the past six years. These prestigious awards recognize our team’s unflagging commitment to providing peak performance, as well as our ability to consistently deliver on that intention, and it is an honor to once again have our hard work celebrated by one of our highly valued strategic partners,” said Alex Schenkel, Senior Vice President of Global Sales at KYOCERA AVX. “We are so grateful to our team for their exemplary performance, and we look forward to further strengthening our partnership with TTI Europe in 2022.”
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10/14/2025 | American Standard CircuitsAmerican Standard Circuits (ASC), a leading manufacturer of advanced printed circuit boards, proudly announces the successful completion of its AS9100 recertification audit. This milestone reaffirms ASC’s ongoing commitment to the highest levels of quality, reliability, and process control required to serve aerospace, defense, space, and other mission-critical industries.
SMT Perspectives & Prospects: Artificial Intelligence Part 6: Data Module 1
10/07/2025 | Dr. Jennie Hwang -- Column: SMT Perspectives and ProspectsData is one of the six pillars of AI infrastructure. It is critical to the performance of artificial intelligence (AI) models. AI data, essential to both the training and inference of Generative AI models, connotes the datasets used to train, validate, and test AI models. Training data provides models with a frame of reference by establishing a baseline against which models can compare new data using pre-trained models for predictions or generating new content.
Happy’s Tech Talk #43: Engineering Statistics Training With Free Software
10/06/2025 | Happy Holden -- Column: Happy’s Tech TalkIn over 50 years as a PCB process engineer, the one skill I acquired in college that has been most beneficial is engineering statistics. Basic statistics was part of my engineering fundamentals classes, but I petitioned the dean to let me take the engineering statistics graduate course because I was creating a senior thesis for my honors focus and needed more training on Design of Experiments (DOE).
Looking to Reduce Your Consumables Spend? Visit ROCKA Solutions at SMTA International
09/29/2025 | ROCKA SolutionsROCKA Solutions, a trusted North American manufacturer and distributor of high-quality consumables for the electronics manufacturing industry, is pleased to announce its participation at SMTA International 2025, taking place October 19–23, 2025, at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois. Attendees can connect with the ROCKA team at Booth #2413.
Inside Thailand’s Rising PCB Hub: Touring a Chinese Fab
09/23/2025 | Edy Yu, Editor-in-Chief, ECIOFrom industry giants to emerging forces, many electronics companies are painting a grand blueprint for the future, laying out their plans in the investment hotbed of Thailand. This was evident during THECA in Thailand, where the most frequently heard buzzwords on and off the show floor were "going global," "building factories in Thailand," and "supply chain security.” With these insights, and full of expectations and questions collected at the exhibition, my team visited First Quality Circuit Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Sihui Fuji, located in the Amata Industrial Park in Rayong, Thailand