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COMPANY
HISTORY
Target Corporation is a woman owned and operated small business.
Since its inception in 1964, it has built an enviable reputation
for integrity, dependability and service to our customers' needs
as well as for manufacturing products that meet the highest standards
of workmanship, performance and reliability. It is presently best
described as a full-service contract manufacturer with design
capabilities and a strong, stable OEM base.
Over the years, Target has adapted and evolved in response to the changing forces primarily within the defense market but also to the larger economic environment. Founded in 1964 by former employees of the Military Electronics Division of Admiral Corporation, the company rented facilities in Glenview, Illinois. The first year sales of $250,000 were primarily military equipment. In 1970 Target built a 13,000 square foot facility in Lake Bluff, Illinois, still concentrating on military hardware. In 1988 Target relocated to North Chicago, Illinois to accommodate a large volume of high-dollar military orders. In October 1992 Target moved to its current location, a 14,400 square foot facility in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin. In 1998, we leased an adjacent 5,800 square feet area to accommodate our added growth. This corresponded to Target's expanding customer base that now includes numerous non-military clients.
Target's manufacturing and engineering capabilities have also developed and expanded over the years. Starting out initially as a "build to print" operation, we have evolved into a full-service contract manufacturer, with both design and testing capabilities, reverse engineering, and repair and most recently expanding our turnkey manufacturing capabilities. And while a majority of our products are still delivered to the defense industry, our quality, workmanship and manufacturing flexibility has encouraged numerous high-tech, high quality, low volume non-defense customers to employ our assembling and testing capabilities. These customers and their products range from Hamilton Sundstrand's aircraft motors, OCENCO's underground mining power supplies, Litton Life Support's oxigenator cables, Rauland-Borg's UL approved nursing station equipment, Dell Computer's test console boards, US Robotics' modem test boards and ADB-ALANCO's runway lighting systems, to name a few.
In 1998 Target added an entire product line that was developed by Cardion Electronics. Cardion had been located on Long Island, New York and had been owned by General Signal, Siemens and Airsys at various times. Some of the Cardion products supported by Target include IFF (numerous versions of the AN/UPX-25, AN/UPX-27 and AN/UPX-28, Interference Blankers, IFF Decoders, Pulse Generators, Etc); various Navigational Beacon Aides (TACAN, VOR, VORTAC and DME); SSR (Video Test Sets, Interrogators, Interference Blanker, Radar Test Sets, Etc); Radar Displays (AN/SPA-25G, AN/SPA-25F, AN/SPA-50G, Etc.); and Radar Digital Scan Converters, AN/SPS-55 x-band system, ASDE, etc. Each of these product lines is found in the Products section.
Along with these newly acquired products comes Target's vast experience with a variety of complementary yet additional equipment such as the AN/UPX-23, AN/URT-23, surface mount low noise amplifiers for the TRC-97, the stabilization amplifier and TSMS for the TOW/COBRA program, anti-jamming Signal Data Converters, the AN/APX-72, -100 and -101, an SOS radio transmitter buoy, AN/WSC3, AN/URN-25 and the AN/UPA-59 (V) video decoder.
SECURITY
CLEARANCE - SECRET
Facility clearance granted by Defense Investigative Services November
17, 1992.
PLANT
Target Corporation's administrative, engineering and production
facilities are located at 8400 Lakeview Parkway, Suite 200 Pleasant
Prairie, Wisconsin, 53158. Located on the southeastern Wisconsin
state border with Illinois it is about 5 miles from Lake Michigan.
Housed within a ten-year-old, 20,200 square foot facility, approximately
7,000 square feet is devoted to production, 1,500 for testing,
2,000 for engineering, 4,300 for inspection and configuration
maintenance and 5,400 for office and common areas.
To assure the environmental atmosphere required meeting high-reliability soldering and ESD requirements, as well as complying with OSHA standards, Target has installed a highly efficient air removal system as well as custom designed workstations for soldering of high-reliability components. All of the production facilities are designed around electrostatic-free work surfaces. Additionally Target utilizes various auxiliary equipments necessary for production and processing of high-reliability military contracts. For example, teflon wires are cut and stripped using the latest radius blade technology to support our no-nick wire policy. Additionally electronic parts are prepped utilizing military approved component preparation machines. A model shop is located within the premises and has basic machine tools such as a lathe, drill presses, milling machine, arbor press and various assembly jigs and fixtures. Lastly, Target utilizes a closed loop aqueous batch cleaning system that cleans both RMA and water-soluble flux/paste, depending upon the customer's requirements.
SPECIAL
FACILITIES
Engineering
The engineering area occupies approximately 2,000 square feet
and includes an extensive inventory of electronic and environmental
test equipment, state-of-the-art anti-static test benches and
various technical reference materials. These facilities are used
for engineering design evaluation, drawing preparation and initial
prototype/first article testing.
Test
Target's production test facility, occupying approximately 1,500
square feet, includes a complete inventory of test equipment as
well as special test fixtures and environmental and altitude chambers.
(One 5kW, 3 phase, 400Hz generator provides a power source for
400Hz equipment.) Random vibration and sine vibration in agree
chamber is also available. Target also has 480 VAC 30 input capability.
Computerized testing with full documentation is available.
Repair
Target Corporation has established itself as a large depot repair
facility for numerous programs. Flexibility and competitive pricing
are the benchmarks of a department that covers RF, digital and
analog products.
quality assurance
Target maintains its operations within a structure that meets
or exceeds the requirements of either MIL-Q-9858A or MIL-I-45208.
All procedures and controls used within our system have been reviewed
and approved by DCMC, Chicag0. In addition to being a certified
Underwriters Laboratory (UL) manufacturing facility, other recent
customer approvals include Hughes Electronics, Raytheon, Hamilton-Sundstrand,
several Northrop-Grumman divisions, Litton Life Support and CE
Niehoff. Independent contractors calibrate all equipment utilized
by Target Corporation in strict accordance with the requirements
of MIL-STD-45662A.
Resident Government QAR
Due to the large number of government contracts, their critical
nature, operating a large repair depot, and our strong military
background, a full-time US government Quality Assurance Representative
is resident to our facility. In fact Target has had resident QARs
for over twenty years.
Cost Accounting
Target Corporation is one of the largest volume small businesses
in DCMC, Chicag0. It uses a Windows-based Kronos' Shop Track Pro
to log all personnel (subcontractors included) within the company.
All labor, both direct and indirect, is tracked by performance
and contract, and all costs and overhead pools are constantly
monitored. The system has been reviewed and approved by DCAA Chicag0.
PERSONNEL
All direct labor employees (including incoming receiving, engineering
and test personnel) are instructed on company policy and procedures
annually and trained on the handling of ESD sensitive devices.
Additionally wire-soldorers and assemblers are fully trained,
tested and certified annually to the workmanship standards of
MIL-STD-2000A. (Special training has been offered for WS6536 and
MIL-S-45743 per contractual requirements.) These standards are
maintained by an in-house certified category C instructor. Target
is currently developing procedures and process controls to satisfy
ANSI-J-STD, with the intentions of becoming ISO certified within
a five-year period.
Target's engineering staff included individuals with more than 35 years experience in military electronic equipment design, including IFF and primary radar. The younger staff members are experienced in microwave, RF, analog and digital circuit design, computer driven automatic test station design, environmental test and stress screening.
REVERSE
ENGINEERING AND LEVEL 3 DRAWING CAPABILITIES
In response to requests from customers, Target has "reversed
engineered" modules and subassemblies from sample units when
drawings were not available. That is, we have generated a complete
set of level 3 manufacturing drawings by taking physical and electrical
measurements on the various subassemblies and components, along
with whatever additional information is available, such as performance
specifications and schematic diagrams. In some cases this has
been done with modules that are completely encapsulated.
PARTIAL LIST
OF CUSTOMERS:
U.S. Government
Airsys ATM
Allied Signal
Aerospace International
Australian Government
Bath Iron Works
British AeroSpace
British Air Force
Canadian Government
Danish Air Force
Danish Navy
EDO Corporation
Embassy of Australia
Embassy of Greece
Embassy of Israel
Embassy of Italy
Embassy of Japan
Embassy of Singapore
Embassy of Spain
Embassy of Turkey
GEC/Marconi
GEC/Marconi (Hazeltine)
Hughes (Raytheon) Aircraft
Integrated Procurement Systems
Korean Air Force
Litton Instruments & Life Support
Litton Ingots
Litton Guidance Systems
LOGICON
NAMSA
NASA
NAPCO International
New Zealand Air Force
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Portuguese Air Force
Spanish Air Force
Siemens Plessey
Siemens (ADB ALANCO)
