February 11, 2026 | Author: Chih-Feng Lin

Customer Profile: MEKTEC

MEKTEC Manufacturing Co. (Taiwan), Ltd. was established in 1986 as a Taiwan-Japan joint venture and is the first overseas base of MEKTEC Corporation (formerly MEKTRON Co., Ltd., established in 1969) under Japan’s NOK Group. MEKTEC operates production bases in Kaohsiung and Tainan, Taiwan, with integrated production capabilities spanning from FPC raw material manufacturing to finished product assembly, specializing in the manufacture of flexible printed circuits (FPC). The MEKTEC Group it belongs to is one of the top three FPC manufacturers worldwide, holding a global FPC market share of 25% to 30%.

FPC is a flexible circuit board that uses polyimide film as its base material. It is widely applied in digital cameras, mobile communication devices, notebook computers and peripherals, consumer electronics, and various advanced technology products. In recent years, with growing demand from automotive electronics, advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) and electric vehicle (EV) battery modules, FPC has become an indispensable key component of the automotive industry thanks to its advantages of light weight, thinness and high-temperature resistance (up to +130°C).

Project Background: Starting From Automotive Customer Requirements

In 2021, in order to meet the increasingly stringent quality management requirements of automotive market customers, MEKTEC adopted the MiDFUN FMEA system for the first time. The automotive electronics supply chain follows the IATF 16949 automotive quality management system, which sets clear requirements for suppliers’ risk management and process control, and FMEA is one of its core tools.

After the first collaboration in 2021 established a solid foundation of trust, MEKTEC decided in 2025 to expand the scope of its quality management system digitalization, further deploying the MiDFUN SPC, MSA, COM (8D/CAR abnormality management module) and SQM systems, and integrating them with the plant’s existing ERP, MES and other information systems through the MiDFUN MDC (Manufacturing Data Collection) module.

Challenges Faced by MEKTEC

As an important manufacturer in the global FPC industry, MEKTEC faced the following quality management challenges after entering the automotive electronics supply chain:

Stringent Audit Requirements From Automotive Customers

Automotive electronics customers require suppliers to provide complete FMEA documentation, SPC process capability reports (Cpk), instrument calibration records and supplier management records. The previous approach of relying on Excel and paper-based management required substantial time to compile data during audits, and versions were difficult to trace.

Quality Data Scattered Across Different Systems

MEKTEC had already established ERP and MES systems within the plant, but there was no real-time linkage between quality management data and production data. Process inspection results could not be automatically imported into the quality analysis platform, resulting in efficiency losses from manual re-entry and data discrepancies.

Pressing Need to Improve Internal Management Efficiency

As production capacity expanded and automotive orders increased, MEKTEC needed to integrate its scattered quality management processes into a unified platform covering failure mode analysis (FMEA), process capability monitoring (SPC), instrument calibration management (MSA) and supplier quality control (SQM) in order to improve overall management efficiency.

Why MEKTEC Chose MiDFUN

The 2021 Collaboration Laid the Foundation of Trust

MEKTEC’s collaboration with MiDFUN began with the FMEA system deployment in 2021. After that project was successfully completed, the two parties established a solid working relationship. The professional guidance capabilities MiDFUN demonstrated during the FMEA deployment, along with its deep understanding of the quality needs of the automotive electronics industry, became the primary basis for MEKTEC’s choice when it expanded its deployment in 2025.

A Complete Quality Management Product Line

MiDFUN provides a complete quality management system product line covering FMEA, SPC, MSA and SQM. The modules integrate seamlessly with one another, avoiding the data gaps and interface incompatibility issues commonly encountered when enterprises adopt systems from multiple vendors. For MEKTEC, choosing an integrated solution from a single vendor significantly reduced the complexity and maintenance cost of system deployment.

The Cross-System Integration Capability of the MDC Middleware Platform

The MiDFUN MDC (Manufacturing Data Collection) module provides a flexible data exchange mechanism that supports multiple integration methods: exporting a temporary Excel file from ERP and then importing it, flexible use through the MDC data exchange platform, or writing data directly into the SPC database from MES/ERP. This cross-system integration capability allowed MEKTEC to achieve automated sharing of quality data without significantly modifying its existing information architecture.

Deployment Scope and Results

Deployment Phase	System Deployed	Core Functions
Phase 1 (2021)	MiDFUN FMEA System	Failure mode and effects analysis, meeting automotive customers’ IATF 16949 requirements
Phase 2 (2025)	MiDFUN SPC System	Statistical process control, Cpk/Cp/Ca analysis, real-time alerts based on the eight test rules
	MiDFUN MSA System	Instrument management, calibration scheduling, measurement system analysis
	MiDFUN SQM System	Supplier quality management, incoming quality control (IQC), supplier performance assessment
	MDC Middleware Platform	Cross-system data integration, connecting existing ERP/MES systems
MiDFUN COM Abnormality Management Module	8D/CAR abnormality handling workflow management, fully digitalized from abnormality reporting to case closure tracking

Key Results

Through the integration of the MiDFUN MDC module with the plant’s ERP and MES systems, MEKTEC achieved automated linkage of quality data. Inspection data from the production line can be imported in real time into the MiDFUN SPC system for statistical analysis and abnormality monitoring, without manual re-entry. Quality data is fully shared across the various systems, greatly improving management efficiency and data consistency, and earning praise from automotive customers.

From the first deployment of the FMEA system in 2021 to the comprehensive integrated solution expanded to SPC, MSA, SQM and MDC in 2025, MEKTEC has gradually built a complete digitalized quality management architecture through a phased strategy, demonstrating its long-term commitment to upgrading quality management.

Conclusion

As an important production base of the MEKTEC Group in Taiwan and a member of the top three FPC manufacturers worldwide, MEKTEC carries especially significant quality management responsibility in the automotive electronics supply chain. Through its partnership with MiDFUN since 2021, MEKTEC successfully expanded from a single FMEA system to a comprehensive quality management platform covering SPC, MSA and SQM, and used the MDC middleware module to open a data channel with the plant’s existing information systems. This systematic digital transformation of quality management not only responded to the stringent requirements of automotive customers but also laid a solid quality foundation for MEKTEC’s continued growth.

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