KOA Speer Quality Manufacturing

Quality Process

As you search for surface mount passive components that will ensure the optimum performance of your circuit design, count on the broad line of products from KOA Speer. Our engineering teams are developing a wide range of new smaller sizes and integrated packages to accommodate higher clock speeds and product downsizing. Our world class manufacturing facilities are poised to ramp up with new designs, allowing us to take them to market with the shortest of lead times. And our sophisticated warehousing and distribution system ensures the availability of components when you need them.

Manufacturing Expertise

KOA Corporation strives to be a world leader in the technology and operational systems of manufacturing. We design and/or modify most of our production equipment to maximize work flow, speed and accuracy. Our manufacturing programs meet the highest international standards for finished component quality with defect levels measured in parts per billion.

We have met our twin goals of continually improving efficiency and quality through a consistent, ongoing investment in technology and equipment. Among the advanced manufacturing processes we currently utilize are high speed laser trimming machines for determining resistance values, an internally developed sputtering technique for precisely controlling end termination thickness, and our photolithography process for applying the base termination to a substrate.

Testing

An integral part of achieving total quality is a complete testing and compliance facility. Our qualitycontrol headquarters incorporates a wide variety of precision testing equipment and procedures. All of our components have their critical performance values confirmed through resistance, inductance and capacitance testing. In addition, we evaluate structural integrity and chemical composition using sophisticated fluorescent x-ray microfilm meters and x-ray micro analyzers.