EUFAULA, AL -- JKM Manufacturing, Inc. is strengthening its strategic partnership with its key suppliers and collaborating on Lean manufacturing initiatives with SEA Wire and Cable, Inc.
"SEA Wire and Cable, Inc. has been a strategic partner and supplier to JKM for many years," JKM CEO Chad B. White said. "We are embarking on new ground. Our collaborating with this key supplier along with our key customers will decrease the time it takes to bid programs. More importantly, it gets mission critical components to our war fighters quicker."
As JKM's top manager, White cites himself as "a fervent champion of lean manufacturing, collaboration and communication - tenets that make JKM a responsive, reliable and proactive maker of quality products." He further says he is "committed to putting customers and their mission first."
In the new collaborative effort, JKM and SEA Wire and Cable are partnering to identify and eliminate waste in their collaborative and administrative processes, with the goal of improving responsiveness to customers' needs and lowering costs. By improving three and four links of the supply chain, White said, "we see more industrial innovation and nimbleness."
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"We're looking at our customers, our suppliers and ourselves and working toward a common goal of supporting the war fighter's mission critical goals," White concluded.
JKM builds products used on 23 major platforms, such as guided missiles, military aircraft, flight simulators, helicopters, tanks, industrial robots and sonar test equipment. JKM specializes in complex wire harness assemblies, rugged electronic systems, circuit card assemblies and electro-mechanical assemblies. JKM also produces a variety of interconnects, they include custom molded harnesses, complex braided cables, fiber-optic cables, coaxial cables and precision ribbon cables. JKM's wiring harnesses are used to connect all the electronics of aircraft, tanks, armored vehicles, helicopters, missiles, gun systems, trucks, ships, boats and other vehicles for military and aerospace purposes.
SEA Wire and Cable, Inc. and JKM support includes the Abrams M1A1 Tank, Avenger Platform Stinger Missile Launcher, B-52 Aircraft, Bradley Fighting Vehicle, C-17 Aircraft, Cobra Helicopter, F-16 Aircraft, F-16 Cockpit Simulator, International Space Station, LAU 115 Missile Launcher, Minuteman Missile, Phalanx Anti-Ship Missile Defense System, RTS (Remote Targeting Systems), Shipboard SONAR, Stand-Off Land Attack Missile, Tomahawk Missile, TOW Missile and UH-47 Chinook Helicopter.
Founded in 1997, JKM is certified in DoD MIL-I-45208A requirements. To learn more, please visit www.jkm-mfg.com.
SEA Wire and Cable, Inc is a supplier of wire, cable, tubing, termination sleeves, cable ties, EMI/RFI back shells, connectors and other cable assemblies for the aerospace and military markets. The company is headquartered in Madison, Al with offices worldwide. For more information on SEA Wire and Cable: www.sea-wire.com
