"Forget about those anecdotal, but often true, tales about buying from China. Take away your worries and buy Chinese manufactured product from ACW".

To increase its customers' competitiveness and profitability ACW provides a secure, low cost manufacturing solution from its wholly owned company operating in a well equipped modern factory in Southern China.

ACW Zhuhai Chinese facility

· Low cost manufacturing
· Well equipped factory
· High quality, clean, well lit working environment
· ESD tiled workshop flooring
· Same principal plant and equipment as ACW UK sites
· Seamless product transfer UK to China if required
· Same quality standards as ACW UK
· Same systems as ACW UK
· Global real time visibility of information

Management & Control

· 100% ACW UK ownership
· Not a joint venture or partnership
· British senior management team
· Management team permanently based at ACW Zhuhai
· Customers' interests protected
· Intellectual property protected
· Western standards in China
· Effective business continuity planning

ACW's UK based engineers and administrators can provide our customers with an effective, easy interface to ACW China.

ACW is accessible in the UK, and is approachable and accountable to customers. Its UK manufacturing sites in England and Wales can offer reassuring back up to supplies and act as hub locations where appropriate.

ACW's Chinese plant manufactures and tests a wide range of electronics products. It has a comprehensive range of plant and excellent information systems; the constant aim is "right first time"

Printed Circuit Board assembly - leaded and unleaded.

Surface Mount assembly

· Flexible, wide-ranging capability
· BGAs placed in production volumes
· Automated Optical Inspection in line
· Same processes in UK & China Facilities

Test

· Teradyne In Circuit Test (ICT) Automatic Test Equipment
· 2048 nodes
· Bespoke test solutions in operation
· JTAG Boundary Scan
· Qualified English speaking test engineers

Inspection & Rework

· X-ray - Metris X-Tek XT V 160
· Microscopes 20X
· Automatic Optical Inspection
· BGA rework capability

Final Assembly and Test

· Mechanical Sub-assemblies
· Box Build & Test
· Rack Mount products
· Packaging
· Logistics

Management Information Systems

· Value adding management information tools developed by ACW over many years providing:

· Real time reporting
· Work In Progress tracking
· Defect reporting
· Engineering Change Order Control
· Statistical Process Control alerts

· Global visibility
· Continuous Improvement Programmes
· World-wide standards
· World-wide ERP system

ACW offers secure low cost supplies of fully tested products.

· We are trustworthy
· We are responsible
· We are locally approachable
· We are locally accountable
· We offer low cost with low risk
· ACW is financially secure

ACW in the UK owns 100% of ACW in China