80 SMT Magazine • March 2017
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Help Wanted! Our 2017
Industry Hiring Survey
This month we conducted an industry survey on
plans for hiring during the year. We started by sim-
ply asking, "Do you plan to hire additional people
this year?" More than half of the respondents an-
swered yes—which we take as an optimistic sign
that our industry plans to expand in 2017.
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Millennials in Manufacturing:
Mya Walton – The Millennials'
Advantage in Manufacturing
Mya Walton, associate co-
ordinator in the test depart-
ment at Saline Lectronics,
talks about how working in
the manufacturing industry
opened up a new world of
possibilities for her, and how
it feels to be creating prod-
ucts that help other people,
such as heart monitors and black boxes.
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Enics Acquires
PKC Electronics
Enics has acquired PKC Electronics, including its
factories in Raahe, Finland and Suzhou, China.
Both factories are providing services in testing,
power solutions and design and manufacturing
services in electronics, mechanics, software and
test systems design.
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Millennials in Manufacturing:
Tom Scales – Manufacturing
from an IT Perspective
Tom Scales, IT manager at
Saline Lectronics, talks about
loyalty, work ethics, motiva-
tion, leadership, his greatest
challenges from an IT per-
spective, and what he thinks
the manufacturing indus-
try should be doing when it
comes to attracting more millennials to join this
field.
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