Earnings impact, inventory swings, and duplicate capacity facing some OEMs moving manufacturing production.
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NPI – New Product Introduction
Manufacturing capacity relocation cost analysis
ODM competition driving margin erosion
EMS providers and ODM manufacturers in Taiwan experience lower margins, yielding pricing benefits to OEM customers.
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EMS provider Venture Manufacturing fights economic headwinds
Venture Manufacturing’s receivables were roughly 34% of assets, which is high for EMS industry and could reflect risk of improper credit management.
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Fast product launch new medical devices: 510(K) and FDA cleared v FDA approved
To help innovation, medical device firms bringing new product to market are not required to go through a strenuous testing process if their new device is substantially similar to one that has come before. But abuse has entered the system.
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Electronic product design automation software drives hardware product launch and EDA jobs
EDA tools becoming more important and sophisticated as electronics OEM and EMS manufacturing providers competed to bring product to market.
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4G v 5G wireless printed circuit board (PCB) challenges and opportunities
Read how 5G network architecture brings challenges and opportunities for PCB vendors, contract electronics EMS providers, and telecoms.
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5G Content drives OLED and flexible display panels in smartphones, communications, gaming, Industry 4.0
Investment, market share to grow in small- and mid-size organic light-emitting diode (OLED) flexible panels and large-size white OLED (WOLED)
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What is difference between OEM, CM, CEM, ECM, EMS, ODM, JDM, design house contract electronic firms?
The design and manufacture of electronic hardware equipment products is divided into two primary camps: OEM brand companies and contract electronic solutions providers. This article outlines the electronics OEM brand company business model. I then compare it to …
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Pros and cons of 3D printing, additive manufacturing in contract electronics
There is great potential for 3D printing to disrupt the $12 trillion manufacturing market. Additive manufacturing (AM) or 3D printing (for private use systems) creates 3D objects layer by layer from a 3D design file (typically in STL, stereolithography format) …
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Artificial intelligence provides transcendence for electronics manufacturing expansion
How OEMs and EMS providers wanting to grow remain competitive while building sustainable business models and keeping an eye on the future.
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