RGC Business Administration Club Learns from Maquiladora Tour

Piedras Negras, Mex. – Wearing bright red T-shirts emblazoned “BAC,” their business administration club logo, a dozen Rio Grande College students toured a major maquiladora plant here last Friday for a close up look at how industries with globalized connections operate.

Led by Assistant Professor of Business, Efrain Adames of RGC’s Eagle Pass campus, the newly-formed club visited the assembly lines and administrative offices of Littelfuse, a division of the international Powr-Guard Corporation, which produces some 4,000 different types of electrical fuses. 

RGC Business Administration Club members touring the Littelfuse maquiladora plant in Piedras Negras (l-r). Michelle Navas, Eshter Perez, Patricia Almeida, Yolanda Sanches, Mr. Adames, Angel Chacon, Ivette Cervantes, Jose Fuentes, Shirley Humphries, Jayne S. Mares, Jesse Martinez and Mauro Flores.


Sergio DeLuna, assembly area manager, hosted the club, providing an orientation video and insights into personnel management practices that include teamwork incentives to keep production levels and product quality high. Littelfuse employs about 1,000 Mexican workers at two modern assembly plants.

Assistant Professor Efrain Adames (second from right) and RGC Business Club members observe an electrical fuse assembly station at the Littelfuse maquiladora plant in Piedras Negras. Area assembly manager Sergio DeLuna (right) led the group on a tour of the facility's manufacturing and administrative areas.

In tracing the layout of his plant, Cotilla was able to show the students the phases of production from raw materials through finished products.

“It’s a wonderful opportunity for this club to get firsthand experience at a single location so many of the management and globalized business concepts that we discuss in the classroom,” said Adames.