Built in Quality is smart planning. It is a strategy that Valtronic follows which minimizes change "after the fact" and enables prompt problem solving.  It is about being proactive and not reactive. In the long run it save both time and money. Most importantly the result is a satisfied customer with a dependable product - the first time. This article is written from the viewpoint of a regulatory consultant and offers some good advice especially if you do not have significant experience dealing with the FDA.

Behind the Scenes 

Valtronic is happy to welcome several new team members as featured below.

Here are excerpts from a short interview with Sanae Lahbabi, Director of the Advanced Electronics Technology Center. Sanae will be working closely with Switzerland from our facility in Morocco.

What is the most important part of your job?

One big part of my job is to make sure the Advanced Electronic Technology Center performs to customers' expectations. To meet this challenge our goal is to offer efficient service & adapt technologies to the customer's needs at a competitive cost. Just as importantly I will be building an engineering team in Morocco to better support our customers.

How did you get into the electronics field?

My background is in Electronic Engineering with special degree in Microelectronics & Design. When I finished school, I took an opportunity to with the Moroccan Research & Development Center for building a Thick Films Lab in Morocco. I then joined ST Microelectronics. It was a newly created Company the result of a merger and they were moving their production in Morocco from high power electrical systems to back-end semiconductor activity. I spent there 17 years in different jobs : Quality, Operations and finally Technical Director of the Bouskoura plant in Morocco.

In 2007, I had this opportunity to lead a new project, building Wafer level Packaging, Wafer Level Optics & Micro Cameras. I accepted that challenge because it was new field for me and an opportunity to learn.

What is the most important lesson you have learned in your career?

I have learned many things. Here are at two of them.

First -  With strong will, method and good team work everything becomes doable

Second -  Never stop learning, we can learn from every single situation and the most important is not doing errors but make sure errors are not repeated again.

What changes will you implement in your role in Morocco.

 Building Engineering team there will definitely help the Moroccan plant. First production will become more independent and able to solve problems better. It will also help in establishing more processes in the plant as well as streamline manufacturing costs.

Valtronic also welcomes:

Switzerland

Laurent Badoz - Planner

Olivier Marti - Process Engineer

Jim Gillet - Technician

Ohran Demircan - CAD Programmer

Tomas Seigneur - Technician

Germany

Clemens Troche - General Manager, Valtronic Germany   

Christophe Geisert - Senior Expert Precision Manufacturing & Mechanical Implants

Volker Dötzkirchner - Product & Development Manager Precision Manufacturing & Mechanical Implants    Barbara Schweizer - Senior Expert Precision Manufacturing & Mechanical Implants

Kathrin Ellfeldt - Expert, Precision Manufacturing & Orthopaedic Implants

Andrej Hahn - Expert, Precision Manufacturing & Orthopaedic Implants  

Simone Hermann - Financial Controller 

Mathieu Marnay - Marketing Communications Manager, Germany  

Dijana Todorovi - Assistant  

16-18 November 2011 

Hall 8B, Booth L14, at COMPAMED at the Messe in Düsseldorf, Germany,   

COMPAMED is an international show for medical supplier.  COMPAMED takes place in connection with MEDICA, offering access to the complete process chain for medical products.  For registration information visit COMPAMED.  

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