Venture Outsource LLC management consultant Mark Zetter has been working with India’s electronics industry and Indian companies offering contract electronics services and design manufacturing (ESDM) services in India since 2002. In May of 2023 on a podcast produced by ‘The …
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Executive Interviews
The Economic Times – The Morning Brief: Mark Zetter talks Apple, India, and China
The great shift: Apple’s exodus from China to India – Unveiling complexities of contract electronics manufacturing sourcing
Apple’s ambitious shift from China to India sparks a journey into complexities of contract electronics manufacturing. Explore challenges and opportunities that lie ahead in this groundbreaking endeavor.
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Visualizing good quality vs poor quality contract manufacturing execution
Below are two clear inferences visualizing specific cases for review of quality that can be applied to differentiating between a contract manufacturer with good quality execution vs a contract manufacturer with poor quality execution. Quality execution Above, the responsible party …
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Contract manufacturing consultants de-risk OEM outsource design and assembly
Independent EMS sourcing consultants with extensive electronics contract manufacturing best practices knowledge. View examples.
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What’s happening in the EMS manufacturing market today
The strength of EMS manufacturers is managing routine operations in the hardware manufacturing supply chain. But they are unable to grasp control in situations demanding originality. EMS providers build to customer specs, and without artificial intelligence every EMS manufacturer will …
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Manufacturing overview of production capacity by end market relocating to South East Asia
OEM program types and trends moving to Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore and other South East Asia nations.
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Rethinking OEM customer satisfaction surveys for electronics manufacturing services (EMS)
EMS manufacturing customer satisfaction surveys are short-sighted and lack EMS provider accountability. EMS providers are insulated from being responsible. Here’s why.
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Should OEMs share product roadmaps with EMS manufacturing partners?
Will electronics OEMs ever be willing to carry this risk when doing so could result in roadmaps falling into hands of competing OEMs served by the same provider?
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Hiring your new CFO: 9 considerations for the OEM, CEO and board members
You are disenchanted with your current CFO and you decide the time has come to replace him. Yes, he has brought you some terrific new board members, has worked closely with the new controller to completely overall finances and the accounting department and, when you needed a new investment round, he was one of the critical players in getting you what you needed.
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Q&A with Peter Marsh: Manufacturing Opportunity in the New Industrial Revolution
The critics of China are right. China has to show that in manufacturing as well as in other fields, businesses can innovate in design and technology. They need to be able to create products where they own the intellectual property and which can be branded as indisputably belonging to them. Moreover the products …
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