COMPANY REPORT

Professional Equipment Manufacturer Tecsys, Brazil

The New Tecsys SMD Line

Tecsys Production

Manager Adilson da Silva holding a circuit board produced by their new SMD machine.

Very good operational organization Concentration on professional satellite reception products In-house development department IRD is their success product

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Professional Equipment Manufacturer Tecsys, Brazil

With a new SMD line that has been in operation since June 2012, the Brazilian manufacturer Tecsys can further increase their quality and improve their reaction time to incoming orders. Tecsys produces everything themselves. Tecsys was founded in 2000 by three partners who were all involved for many years in the TV reception industry. Today the three founders wear different hats at Tecsys: CEO is Jose Marcos Freire Martins, CCO is Jorge Alberto Ganuza and CTO is Rodolfo Vidal. CEO Jose Marcos Freire Martins explains to us how it all started: Tecsys began as a manufacturer of SMATV products. We had seven employees and produced,

Jose Marcos

Freire Martins is one of the founders of Tecsys and is CEO of the company

So Jos dos Campos

Jorge Alberto
Ganuza is also one of the three founders and is CCO

for example, head ends. The company grew very quickly. Today we have 97 employees of which 28 of them are engineers. Tecsys produces everything that can be found in head ends, from IRDs (the companys success product) to modulators and decoders. Tecsys ships primarily to the domestic Brazilian market; many of the larger TV organizations utilize Tecsys products. Business is so good that, according to CCO Jorge Alberto Ganuza, Tecsys is planning on moving into a much larger building. A highlight at Tecsys is their SMD line. This work was previously outsourced to another company but by installing their own production line, Tecsys is now not only much more flexible when it comes to the customers requirements, but they can also react more quickly to changes in their own products. The entire production operation at Tecsys is
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unusually well organized: Lean Production is the keyword from Production Manager Adilson da Silva, who showed us the details of the operation (see pictures). By concentrating on reception technology primarily that of satellite TV, Tecsys has created an interesting niche for themselves. With their modern production system and their highly professional operational organization, Tecsys is poised to become a stronger force on the world market.
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1. Bruno Renato is responsible for incoming inspection. All deliveries are sorted into three categories and color coded: red is for products that dont meet the requirements, yellow (as shown in the picture) is for those products that still need to be checked and green indicates that the products can be released to the stockroom. 2. Warehouse Supervisor is Helbert Lopes Silva. He shows us how the system functions: Each delivery has its own barcode label. 3. A look in the stockroom with the rolls of surface mount components for the SMD machine. 4. All products are given a code that identifies its location in the stockroom. This makes it easy to find a missing production component. 5. Rodrigo Rosa is the SMD machine technician. He explains to us the production process with the SMD machine. 6. The empty circuit boards are fed into the machine. 7. Components are now placed on the board.
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8. Then the stuffed circuit board is placed in an oven. The circuit board is then heated to a specific temperature depending on the number of components and the size of the board. We use software to calculate the necessary temperature that can be anywhere from 108C to 260C, explains Rodrigo Rosa. 9. Each circuit board is checked with a microscope. 10. The last step is the solder bath. The internal temperature reaches 246C. 11. Multiple circuit boards are needed for a complete Tecsys IRD, plus theres also a power supply circuit board. 12. A detailed functionality check is performed before final assembly.

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 Finally, theres the burn-in process.

The devices are run for two days.

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