Production
Logix was established in 1997 by John
Goncalves who had previously spent 15 years with Conlog
in the industrial, automotive and pre-payment electricity
meter business.
Although established initially as a small contract facility
aimed at providing prototype services and small volume
hand soldered PCB assemblies, business grew rapidly
and John was joined in 2001 by Dave Elston
who had been a previous colleague at Conlog before leaving to
run Reutech Industrial Electronics (R.I.E.) which was part of
the Reunert group.
Together John and Dave funded the purchase of two second
hand Suzuki 1250 pick and place machines, immediately establishing
the critical automated SMD capability.
Today the company covers the complete needs of the local industry
with volumes of PCBs ranging from a one-off prototype
up to more than 10 000 units. |
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pick ‘n’ place lines catering for small,
medium and high volume production are located in a
brand new built-for-purpose 1300 m2 factory in Westmead
in Durban. The operating capacity of the new facility
is now some 50 000 SMD components per hour.
A Marantz automatic optical inspection unit enables Prologix
to maintain a very high level of confidence in the delivered
quality levels at increased production volumes. |
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experienced technical team is amongst the now
66 strong staff complement and this gives exceptional production
engineering support and has already successfully carried
out lead free soldering in terms of the new European directives.
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| Quality
is paramount to the company’s business and in February
2006 Production Logix was succe sfully audited and awarded ISO
9001:2000 certification. |
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