Top industrial-minded investors include GE, Intel, Qualcomm, Saudi Aramco, Autodesk…while Foxconn builds its own cloud robotics platform.
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Benchmarks & Best Practices
Foxconn amid industrial-minded investors in manufacturing with robotics cloud platform
Robotics startups raise over $259 million for 2016
Investments among startup companies building robots for industrial automation, manufacturing, warehouse automation, and other tasks are growing.
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Industrial Internet-of-Things (IoT) startups impact manufacturing and supply chains
With machines and sensors collecting data at every step of manufacturing the potential gains from the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) are enormous.
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EMS provider website marketing stats
Its no surprise to see EMS firms with marketing budgets invest in their website. Recently we’ve noticed some major site re-designs launched by more than a few contract electronics solutions firms.
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Contract electronics attracts limited partnership investment, middle market management buyouts for high-mix, non-traditional EMS
Contract electronics EMS firms seeking to be acquired often have a higher than industry average debt-to-equity ratio.
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EMS differentiation: Equal opportunity challenge for every contract electronics solutions provider
We reached out to more than 5,000 EMS industry professionals with the statement: Describe the competitive differentiation that sets your company apart from other electronics services companies you compete with in the marketplace.
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Kimball Electronics review and competitors
Kimball Electronics (Jasper, Indiana) offers complex design, assembly services and competes with other providers. View competing electronics solutions providers to Kimball Electronics and contact companies.
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Is FLEX product development and scale embedded in EMS reality?
Flex, like all solutions providers, has lost customers to competitors. Whether a provider has dozens of facilities or just a few, OEMs should go into discussions knowing not ever provider factory or functional department is firing on all cylinders.
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Thin margin myth in EMS manufacturing
Why EMS sales convinces OEMs that EMS margins are thin and how OEM customers continue to pay extra for lack of real risk decisioning by EMS management.
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EMS manufacturing materials purchasing in the extended supply chain
Some strategies include grouping part numbers by commodity or supplier, managing line items based on pricing or parts that make up the biggest value of your bill and materials (BOM), to name a few.
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