Daico's engineering, manufacturing and quality teams have demonstrated conclusively that using the highest grade components, incorporating a well established material handling system and adhering strictly to proven processes and controls are the most direct and sustaining paths to high manufacturing yields, low rejection rates and customer satisfaction.
Our comprehensive Quality Management System is integrated throughout the operational and engineering functions of the company. Daico holds certifications to both AS 9100D and ISO 9001:2015 that certify the Daico Quality Management System has met or exceeded all the requirements of the International Aerospace Standards Requirements for Aviation, Space, and Defense Organizations. Our procedures and processes ensure our ability and responsibility for the conformity of our products and services to the enhancement of customer satisfaction, continual improvement, and growth of our company.
DOD-STD-1686 ESD Programs and Total Quality Management structured around DOD-STD-5000.51-G, are used in all assembly, test and inspection areas. Daico’s reputation for quality is a matter of record, spanning more than five decades of service to the defense and military sectors, we combine the selection of the highest grade components with an efficient material handling system and proven processes and controls.
Daico’s space and military experience also ensures competence and compliance in heavy documentation and traceability.
Resulting: highest manufacturing yields, the lowest rejection rates and consistent customer satisfaction.
MIL-Specs
- AS9100 Rev.D and ISO 9001:2015 Inspection System
- MIL and High-Rel. (Class H & K)
- ESD program iaw MIL-STD-1686
- ANSI / NCSL Z540 Calibration
- SPC (Statistical Process Control)
- Attribute & Variable Data Recorded
- TQM (Total Quality Management)
- MIL-PRF-38534 (Screen & Qualification)
- MIL-STD-883 (General Procedures for Hybrids)
Quality Assurance Program
1. Preplanning
- Customer source control drawing review
- Contract/P.O. review
- Sales Order Implementation and review
- Work instruction initiation and maintenance
- Allows for implementation of specialized customer requirements into standard Daico Processes
2. Design
- SAE AS5553 Counterfeit Electronic Parts
- Reliability/Survivability, design consideration
- Engineering model approach
- Standardized process/circuit approach
- Engineering support/follow-up in manufacturing/test
- MTBF analysis
3. Materials
- Certified high reliability procurement
- Positive control of non-conforming material
4. Manufacturing
- Comprehensive process controls
- Quality auditing
- 100% fabrication and assembly inspection
- Quality documentation
- Positive control of non-conforming material
- Corrective Action system
- Personnel training
- State-of-the-art Fully Automated SMT Assembly/Inspection equipment
- Automated computer-controlled epoxy application, die bonding, wire bonding, sealing, testing and marking
- Class 100,000 clean room
- ESD and FOD control program
Qualification per MIL-PRF-38534 / MIL-STD-883:
(Performed at an outside test facility unless otherwise specified)
- Resistance to solvents
- Thermal Shock
- Element Evaluation
- Moisture Resistance
- SEM Analysis
- Bond Strength
- Life Test (done in-house)
- Solderability
- Die Shear
- Vibration
- X-ray
Screening Tests per MIL-STD-883: Screen Level Chart
(Performed in-house unless otherwise specified)
- Burn-in up to 150 deg. C using Eight Delta Design ovens with a mother board interface
- Thermal Cycling MIL-STD-883
- Acceleration MIL-STD-883
- Vibration (outside test lab)
- PIND MIL-STD-883
- Leak test MIL-STD-883
- Radiograph Inspection (outside test lab)
- Mechanical Shock (outside test lab)
- QC Test and Screening Levels