- Promotes Jeffrey Ocker to Director of Operations
MANKATO, Minn., Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Winland Electronics, Inc. (AMEX:WEX), a leading designer and manufacturer of custom electronic control products and systems, today announced it has completed a restructuring of its manufacturing and operations departments. The restructuring is intended to support more aggressive EMS growth objectives and also better align the company to its 2008 and 2009 initiatives in program management, supply chain management, quality management, and information systems. This restructuring follows the February 14, 2008 announcement relating to the addition of Warren Mitchell as Executive Supply Chain Leader.
The company has appointed Jeffrey Ocker to the newly created position of Director of Operations, and Steve Trnka to Director of Manufacturing. Mr. Ocker joined Winland in 2006, and was Manager of Manufacturing Test Engineering prior to this appointment. Prior to Winland, he was at Plexus Corporation, a Tier II EMS company, where he was responsible for design, testability and manufacturability of products for the medical, networking, computing, and industrial markets. Mr. Trnka has spent more than eight years at Winland as a Program Manager and Strategic Account Manager.
Tom de Petra, Winland's Interim Chief Executive Officer, commented, "These changes were designed to favorably impact virtually every part of our organization and every quality and performance measure that matters to our customers and our financial success." He added, "Jeff and Steve both have strong skills and significant experience in the electronic manufacturing services industry. They also have strong drive and clear vision on the direction Winland is going." About Winland Electronics Winland Electronics is an electronic manufacturing services (EMS) company, providing product development and manufacturing expertise and innovation for more than 20 years. Winland also markets proprietary products for the security/industrial marketplace. Winland's product development offering includes program management, analog circuit design, digital circuit design, printed circuit board design and embedded software design. Winland differentiates itself from the contract manufacturer competition with its integrated product development and manufacturing services to offer end-to-end product launch capability, including design for manufacturability, design for testability, transition to manufacturing and order fulfillment. Winland's core competency is delivering time-to-market through superior program management, experience, integrated development processes, and cross-functional teams. Winland Electronics is based in Mankato, MN.
CONTACT: Tom de Petra Brett Maas or Cameron Donahue
Chairman, Interim CEO Hayden Communications
(507) 625-7231 (651) 653-1854
http://www.winland.com/ DATASOURCE: Winland Electronics, Inc.
CONTACT: Tom de Petra, Chairman, Interim CEO of Winland Electronics, Inc., +1-507-625-7231; or Brett Maas, or Cameron Donahue of Hayden Communications, +1-651-653-1854, for Winland Electronics, Inc. Web site: http://www.winland.com/
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