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Organization Structure

Who owns engineering, quality, manufacturing and purchasing above the production floor, and how an order travels through the departments that make a board.

Certified to

  • ISO 9001:2015
  • IATF 16949:2016
  • UL No. E354070
  • IPC-6012B & IPC-A-600H

Company at a Glance

Board
Board of directors
Executive
General manager · management representative
Core departments
R&D · engineering · quality · manufacturing · planning · purchasing
Support departments
Financial · marketing · human resources · equipment
Production units
Factory 1 and Factory 2
Sites
Shenzhen (4,000 m²) · Meizhou (30,000 m²)
Staff
690 · 180 (Shenzhen) · 510 (Meizhou)
Engineering scope
DFM, DFA and DFT review · tooling and process engineering
Quality scope
IQC · in-process inspection · final audit · materials lab
Purchasing scope
Component sourcing against the customer BOM
Equipment scope
Machine installation and maintenance

How the company is organised

The board of directors sets the direction; the general manager runs the company day to day and delegates the management-system duties to a management representative, so audits, corrective actions and document control are handled outside the production line. Below that, the work is divided by function rather than by customer: each department owns one part of a board's journey, and the production units are organised as factories.

Board of directors
General manager
Management representative
Core departments
R&DEngineeringQualityManufacturingPlanningPurchasing
Production units
Factory 1Factory 2
Support departments
FinancialMarketingHuman resourcesEquipment
Reporting lines from the board of directors through the general manager to the core departments, the two production units and the support functions.

What each department owns

  • R&D — new processes and board technologies, from HDI and rigid-flex stack-ups to heavy-copper etch and plating work
  • Engineering — DFM, DFA and DFT review of the customer data package, tooling, panelisation and process engineering on the line
  • Quality — incoming inspection, in-process checks, final audit and the materials lab; the quality assurance page lists the equipment and the published objectives
  • Manufacturing — fabrication and assembly output, including the SMT and through-hole lines
  • Planning — scheduling the panels and assemblies across the two units against the promised date
  • Purchasing — component sourcing against the customer BOM
  • Equipment — machine installation and maintenance, so a line is not waiting on an outside contractor
  • Financial, marketing and human resources — the commercial and people functions behind the plants

How an order moves through the structure

  1. Data package received — the Gerber set, BOM and test requirements reach engineering.
  2. DFM, DFA and DFT review — the design is checked against the process limits, and anything that falls outside them is raised before a price is fixed.
  3. Purchasing quotes the BOM — sourcing runs against the bill of materials, with long-lead and obsolete parts flagged early.
  4. Planning schedules the build — prototypes take 1–3 days and medium-volume boards 4–10 days, with stencils cut on site within four hours.
  5. Manufacturing builds it — fabrication and assembly in the same organisation, so a board does not change supplier between bare-board finish and assembled unit.
  6. Quality inspects and releases it — SPI, AOI, X-ray and electrical test, with the inspection records that can travel with the shipment.

The customer keeps one engineering contact for the program instead of being routed through the department list, which is the point of the structure rather than an exception to it.

Two sites, two factories

The structure above runs across two sites and the factories inside them:

  • Shenzhen (4,000 m², 180 staff) — quick-turn prototypes, small and medium-volume boards, HDI and specialty materials
  • Meizhou (30,000 m², 510 staff) — volume rigid production

Total floor area is 34,000 m² with 690 staff and a PCB capacity of 50,000 m² per month. The same structure covers PCB manufacturing and PCB assembly, which is what keeps a prototype and its production order under one management.

Beyond quality: environment and safety

ISO 9001 and IATF 16949 sit alongside ISO 14001 for the environment and ISO 45001 for occupational health and safety, and the commitments behind them are set out on the environmental policy page. Issued certificates are collected on the certifications page.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • How is Hitech Circuits organised?

    A board of directors sits above the general manager, who runs the company through a management representative and the departments: R&D, engineering, quality, manufacturing, planning, purchasing, financial, marketing, human resources and equipment. Production itself is split between Factory 1 and Factory 2 across the Shenzhen and Meizhou sites.

  • Which department owns quality?

    Quality is a department in its own right, covering incoming inspection, in-process checks, final audit and the materials lab where dimensional, impedance, micro-section and RoHS testing happens. That department also holds the certificate records for ISO 9001:2015, IATF 16949:2016, ISO 13485:2016 and UL E354070.

  • Who handles a customer order?

    Engineering reviews the data package for DFM, DFA and DFT; purchasing sources the bill of materials; planning sets the schedule on the line; manufacturing builds it in one of the factories; quality inspects and releases it. The customer keeps one engineering contact for the order rather than being routed between departments.

  • What does the management representative do?

    The role carries the management-system duties across departments — the quality management system under ISO 9001:2015, the environmental system under ISO 14001 and the safety system under ISO 45001 — so audits, corrective actions and document control are handled outside the production line.

  • Is fabrication and assembly run by the same organisation?

    Yes. One general manager runs both, and the Shenzhen plant (4,000 m²) takes quick-turn prototypes and specialty boards while Meizhou (30,000 m²) carries volume rigid production. Component sourcing and assembly sit inside the same structure, which is why a change on one side of the work is visible on the other.

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