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    Accounts Receivable

    Wednesday, September 7th, 2011

    Find, buy, pay.  That’s the typical procedure when consumers acquire a product. We at Lyn-Tron want to make the ‘paying‘ process as simple as possible. Every business day we mail out invoices for the products that ship the previous business day. This helps expedicte the process for some customers who want to take advantage of our 1% discount if we receive payment within 10 days. On the other hand, a majority of our customers prefer to pay the balance of invoice in 30 days upon receiving it.

    Additional documentation (or copies of invoices) can be requested at anytime. You can make an inquiry about your invoice through our website on the Accounts Receivables page. As more and more business move away from the old days of pen and paper, nearly all of our communication with customers can be done electronically. Requesting an invoice or submitting payment via; check, Visa©, Mastercard©, ACH or wire transfers (fees applicable) are all ways that we want to make your days more efficient.

    You can get in touch with the Accounts Receivable department directly throught a plethera of ways

    • Accounts Receivable phone number: (509) 252-5246
    • Accounts Receivable fax number: (509) 456-5843
    • Account Receivable email: AccountsReceivable@lyntron.com
    • Lyn-Tron main phone number: (800) 423-2734
    • Lyn-Tron main fax number: (509) 456-5843

    We always welcome your comments and concerns and look forward to servicing your electronic component needs.

    I.T. Summer Intern

    Thursday, September 1st, 2011

    Tyler Darnold is the 14 year old son of our account executive and Internet guru, Jolene Darnold. Tyler spent the majority of his summer the best way anyone could. By choosing to be the I.T. Department’s Intern here at Lyn-Tron. Tyler started his internship at Lyn-Tron on July 15th and has spent the last 6 weeks enjoying the tutelage the I.T. Department has to offer. You might ask yourself what type of teenager about to start his high school career would want to sacrifice their precious summer coming to work with there MOM? I’ll tell you a kid with tremendous potential in the computer science field. He’s dedication to come in and sacrifice his summer at a young age says a lot about his character, I was surprised to see him after two weeks. Tyler displayed a natural problem solving desire and patience which are the biggest parts in becoming a computer scientist. Tyler first was in charge of editing some of our internal CAD tutorial videos. After a couple of weeks of doing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript tutorials we gave him the job to help revamp our login, and create account page on our website. Tyler will be starting at Shadle Highschool next week were he will continue his education in computer science by taking some of the computer programing classes that they offer. Tyler knew at a very young age that he wanted to be involved in computers. After being exposed to his first video game he knew he wanted to be a game designer. He already knows he wants to attend Full Sail University after Highschool, a university that has produced many 3d artist and video game designers that are the leading the industry today. Here at Lyn-Tron we were very proud to have Tyler join us and we know he will succeed in any career he chooses.

    Greg McGowan
    Software Engineer

    Lyn-Tron Interview Series: Matt LeBret, Davenport Foreman part 2

    Thursday, August 18th, 2011

    Lyn-Tron Adds NAS

    Thursday, August 11th, 2011

    The new NAS (National Aerospace Standard) section will finally be arriving to the Lyn-Tron website. This new section will be incorporated into Lyn-Tron’s current standard part family complete with it’s own section in our Catalog. This will ensure that our customers can order an NAS part by that designation and it will be that same number through out the entire procces, from order placement to manufacturing and finally shipping. All the way until it reaches our valued customers.

    This new edition to our website has been one of the biggest additions we have done since our latest Pricing App. We hope everyone will find this new edition helpful and precise. We designed the new NAS section with a brand new, easier, user interface that will provide you our loyal customers everything you ever wanted to know about an NAS part. Our goal was to make looking up NAS parts as easy as finding your favorite Lyn-Tron part number.  It will always be Lyn-Tron’s priority to provide not only  a quality product but to also provide a quality service for our valued customer to ensure complete customer satisfaction.

    Greg McGowan
    Software Engineer

    Lyn-Tron Welcomes New Intern

    Friday, June 24th, 2011

    Lyn-Tron would like to introduce the world to our newest Intern Ryan Nadeau. Ryan is currently a senior attending Eastern Washington University were he will be graduating through the Manufacturing Technology program. Ryan will be starting his internship on Monday June 27th, it will last until September 9th. Here at Lyn-Tron we are very excited to have Ryan join us. Ryan will be on a three day a week schedule that will be Monday, Wednesday, Friday on each day he will be in a different department. On Monday’s Ryan will be in the CNC Department to get an understanding of what the Machinist do and how the whole department runs. Wednesdays, he will be in the Quality Control Department learning what our inspector’s look for that ensures our loyal customers always receive a quality product. On Friday’s, he will be in the CAD Department and work with one of our CAD Specialist going through a tutorial. Here at Lyn-Tron we are always looking for ways to help our Community and we are very delighted to welcome Ryan Nadeau.

    RoHS Importance at Lyn-Tron

    Thursday, June 16th, 2011

    Here at Lyn-Tron we pride ourselves on our superb customer satisfaction. In order to ensure this we at Lyn-Tron have created a new procedure that will do just that. This new procedure is a stand that Lyn-Tron is taking to ensure complete RoHS compliant materials. We have decided to send all of our incoming raw material to an independent lab for a destructive test to ensure that the material we use to manufacture products are RoHS compliant and not rely on the raw material mill certification. The procedure for this testing starts when raw material arrives by truck at our facility. The material is inspected for diameter, flatness, surface smoothness and any surface cracking or stress. The material is identified by the mill’s heat number and lot number, this data is kept on file and the original material cert is scanned into our quality system. Several bars are cut into 6″ pieces and sent along with a copy of the material cert to the lab for testing. The material is then placed in a controlled quarantine area until lab test confirm the chemical analysis and RoHS compliance has been verified.

    At the lab, how they actually do the test is quite interesting. First is the the cut bars are received at the lab, the material is placed in a large crucible, then melted down to a liquid. At this point, the hot aluminum liquid is poured into a cast which turns this liquid back into a solid 2 and half round puck. This puck is then cooled and taken into a lathe and one side of the surface of the puck is turned down in order to have an even smooth surface adequate for testing. Next the pucks are then stamped with a serial number, heat and lot number prior to the actual testing. Finally the pucks are placed into an ARL 4460 Optical Emission Spectrometer and the results are printed out and show a completer chemical analysis of the material. An additional puck is sent back to us at Lyn-Tron along with the chemical analysis which is then kept for a period of three years. The Chemical analysis data is then entered into our quality system through software that has been developed by our IT department so that we can track every item we manufacture with that certain material and easily find the analysis if needed.

    This new procedure provide a means of traceability which goes far beyond relying on the mills material certification. The ultimate goal is simply to guarantee our loyal customers that we have done everything in our power to ensure that our products are RoHS compliant. At Lyn-Tron we are dedicated to serving the needs of our customers by supplying products of superior quality at a fair price with constant attention to delivery, performance and total customer satisfaction.

    Feedback on The New Pricing App

    Wednesday, June 1st, 2011

    It has been a week since we introduced our new Pricing app and our loyal customers could not be more happy. Over the past week our sales staff have received numerous praises on how well they like our new app and the new functionality. This app was built exactly for that, to give our loyal distributors a new exciting user friendly app that gives them everything they wanted and more. With your great feedback over the years has resulted in this new Pricing App. This has been all apart of Lyn-Tron’s continuing dedication to serving the needs of our customers by supplying products of superior quality at a fair price with constant attention to delivery, performance and total customer satisfaction. Here at Lyn-Tron we would like to thank all of you who have commented on the new Pricing App. If you haven’t had a chance to check out our video tutorial on how to use the new Pricing App click here.

    If you have not had a chance to check out the new pricing app please stop by and as always don’t forget to leave your comments on our blog page.

    New Online Pricing App Part 2

    Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

    For those of you that believe the early bird gets the worm here is your first sneak peak of how to use our new pricing app. We are just days away from removing the current page and making the new and slightly improve page go live, you will notice major changes on this new page. Everything from where you view the pricing to how the lead times are laid out. We have tried to make this page as user friendly as possible. We have incorporated many of the functions that we use on our own internal pricing page. Also the pricing matrix has been redesigned for improved pricing performance.

    If you have had a chance to watch the new video tutorial great if not, here are some helpful hints:

    The first thing to keep in mind is that the numbers are all real time. So if you check the site one day and we have stock and the next day we don’t you can make a pretty fair guess that we sold those parts. This also includes pricing. Keep in mind you have to be logged on as a distributor for the pricing page.

    Some hot keys to keep in mind: The ESC key – this clears everything. Basically it allows you to easily go from searching for a female/female and you hit that key (make your own fast noise here) the screen goes blank and you can start looking for the captive panel screw that you have always wanted.

    Also the enter key, if you have half a part number, first half please. You can enter that and hit the enter button. By doing this you will be given all of the complete part numbers that include that basic part number. Please watch the new video tutorial for more complete information on how to use the new pricing page. Be sure to test out the new pricing app for your self on May 26.

    Jolene Darnold
    Lyn-Tron Account Executive / On-line Sales Lead

    Exciting New Pricing Modification

    Thursday, May 12th, 2011

    We have given you a little taste of what is coming in the new pricing app. We have made some recent discoveries to further improve upon the new app to ensure that our customers get the best possible solution. These new changes will improve the performance and user functionality. This will be most advanced Pricing App imaginable with real time price updates and stock availability. However with some of these new improvements to ensure complete customer satisfaction we have had to push back the launch date to May 26. We hope that you don’t miss the launch and visit our new pricing app at lyntron.com.

    Greg McGowan
    Software Engineer

    New Online Pricing App

    Thursday, May 5th, 2011

    We have got something brewing specifically for our beloved on line authorized distributors. We are proud to annouce the up and coming launch of our new on-line pricing page. This is scheduled to go live to you on May 19, 2011. After months of research and gathering feed back from our on-line users we hope that you’ll love the new page as much as we do.

    Our IT department has been working diligently to provide the best on-line pricing experience possible. This project has been in the works since the first of the year. We have gather insight from everyone that we could think of – if we missed you (sorry). Everything from Mr. Lynn’s vast knowledge of the industry to your thoughts on the subject of pricing has gone in to the revamping on this page.

    Here at Lyn-Tron we realize that you have a choice when it comes to where you go to price you parts and even though our current pricing page gives our customers everything they need we feel that we can always give you more. To this end we have made a page that more closely resembles our own internal pricing program. It is our hope that our distributors will have a better user experience and thus making our website your first choice. You as a distributor will see exactly what we see as we see it. Everything from pricing, to part description has been formated in a way that allows us to work as a team.

    In the coming weeks we are very excited to show you all of the tricks of the trade on how to use this upcoming pricing program relaunch.

    Jolene Darnold
    Lyn-Tron Account Executive / On-line Sales Lead


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