CICERO — SRCTec LLC is planning to offer services in the electronics-manufacturing services (EMS) market. The firm in May announced the hiring of Mathew Nearpass as a program director to “steward the company’s launch” in the EMS market. “That formal launch is still to come,” says Nearpass. “It will happen this calendar year.” Nearpass, who […]
CICERO — SRCTec LLC is planning to offer services in the electronics-manufacturing services (EMS) market.
The firm in May announced the hiring of Mathew Nearpass as a program director to “steward the company’s launch” in the EMS market.
“That formal launch is still to come,” says Nearpass. “It will happen this calendar year.” Nearpass, who joined SRCTec in mid-March, spoke with CNYBJ by phone on June 28.
He most recently worked for Melbourne, Florida–based Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS), which has offices in the Rochester area. With Harris, he served as director of product-line management and led a companywide “refocus on product business-plan strategies and turnaround initiatives,” SRCTec said.
SRCTec contends it has the ability to provide “high end” manufacturing services throughout the Central New York region, describing itself as a “high-tech company with specialized capabilities in electronics-manufacturing services.”
Its work in manufacturing services is “beyond its traditional role as a manufacturer solely for parent company, SRC, Inc,” the company added.
SRCTec describes itself as a manufacturing and life-cycle management company specializing in the production of “high-quality, high-reliability, advanced military electro-mechanical products.”
The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of SRC, Inc., a nonprofit research and development company focusing on the defense, environment, and intelligence sectors.
EMS work
Nearpass describes EMS work as “finalizing a design for production.”
After an engineering team or a design team develops a product in the laboratory environment, the EMS provider will then take the design and “help augment” it for production in a way that might lower its cost and make it a “higher quality” product.
“It’s really taking a product that might be at the 10-yard line and bringing it over the goal line … [to] use a football analogy,” says Nearpass.
EMS work can also involve the “after-sale support of these high-tech products,” he adds.
EMS providers also handle parts procurement. “Everything that is required to build and sustain the product build,” says Nearpass.
When asked for examples of products for which SRCTec could provide services in the EMS market, Nearpass noted products it manufacturers for the defense market, such as radars and the “crew duke” system.
The AN/VLQ-12 CREW Duke system provides “lifesaving protection against the full range of remote controlled, improvised explosive device [IED] threats,” according to SRC.
Nearpass wasn’t sure if the company had plans for additional hiring for the business area.
Lisa Mondello, who handles corporate communications for SRCTec, says the defense market has “peaks and valleys” and that this work is “in a different market space, so it would help make the valleys lower to sustain our current workforce.”
SRCTec has started pursuing clients for EMS, but Nearpass couldn’t say if the firm had yet secured any customers.