April 2019 Newsletter
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Merry Christmas – Wishing You Continued Success in the New Year
The holidays are a time for gatherings of family and friends, with the excitement of decorating the home, giving and receiving gifts, and sharing memories. And they carry that meaning for Whitney Blake, too. We may be a company, but we are a company of individuals who value each other and our customers. We have [...]
Coiled Cords Are Everywhere
The world is wireless yet coiled cords are everywhere. Even in a wireless environment, power has to come from somewhere—and you cannot transmit power wirelessly because of issues with safety, control, and interference. Moreover, wireless transmissions of data are not truly secure in, for example, military, aviation, or medical environments where secure communications are life [...]
Just-in-Time Manufacturing in the Cable Industry
A lot of raw materials go into cables, cords, harnesses, and their connectors. In turn, those cables, cords, harnesses, and connectors are the components that our customers need to fall within their scheduling, budget, and performance constraints. The manufacturing process, from sourcing supplies to creating end products, requires a strategy that aligns raw material supply [...]
Cost-Effective, Top Performing – Cable & Harness Assembly in 4 Steps
You have products—perhaps industrial, military, solar and wind power, agricultural, or transportation—that require complicated cables and harnesses. Your engineers come up with a design, but is it as cost-effective to produce and as high performing as it could be? Here are four steps you can take to ensure that the budget and performance specifications [...]
Making Your Products Safe for Your Health & Environment
In a previous blog post, we discussed materials declarations and some of the initiatives we are taking to ensure compliance with European Union (EU) and US regulations. One of those initiatives at Whitney Blake is the compilation of a Materials Declaration List. The Materials Declaration List The EU’s Restriction of Hazardous Materials (RoHS), the EU’s [...]
How Do We Satisfy Demanding Customers? Ask Todd Given, Program Manager
During his 25 years at Whitney Blake, Todd Given has learned both the manufacturing and the technical side of the business as an Engineering Manager-and now Program Manager. Here's how Whitney Blake customers benefit from all of that experience... What exactly does a Program Manager do? Todd: I look at the overall time frame of [...]
Shipping – Receiving Clerk
JD Revision Date 05/31/2017 Reports To: Supply Chain Manager POSITION SUMMARY The shipping and receiving clerk position assists in performing inventory management for incoming and outgoing company products and parts necessary to the manufacturing of products. So if a company was looking to ship from US to Canada, then the clerk will need to make [...]
Do you worry about material declarations and hazardous material?
The European Union has strict regulations concerning chemicals that might be hazardous to humans or the environment. Most small US companies without European customers feel they can ignore those regulations; however, Whitney Blake has taken a different stand. We believe in good manufacturing practices, in anticipating problems, and most of all in protecting our clients. [...]
Meet Our Team: Le Borofsky
Assistant Controller, Le Borofsky As Assistant Controller, Le contributes to the process improvements in different aspects of company operations. Her involvement with improving internal processes benefits our customers by aligning business strategies with customer needs. Le’s personal story is one to think of as we honor our heroes this Memorial Day. Le is a “Boat [...]