Combined, all of these issues, and many others are becoming fault lines in the foundation that has allowed China to recover from the economic …
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Electronics Assembly
China’s risk: Bubbles burst, that’s what they do
Japanese electronics industry’s changing landscape
The most recent restructuring plans announced by Japanese electronics companies are focused on extricating these companies from non-profitable divisions, and promoting additional growing through mergers and acquisitions. It seems Japanese…
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Taking the pulse of EMS
While internal, defensive, cost-control issues dominated the companies’ reports; most firms also …
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Just in time (JIT) strategy feels earthquake tremors
When the nuclear facilities were built, the electric company guaranteed its reliability and safety to withstand the strongest earthquake; however, they now have no idea when the plant can resume operation from its nuclear reactors. The power shortage during the hottest summer in Japan is on everyone’s mind.
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Hyper competition among EMS providers
Credit Suisse estimates two-thirds of operating profit margins for EMS providers is likely derived from component purchase price variance: paying a discounted price for components from suppliers, while getting compensated by OEM customers as if paying standard prices.
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Independent manufacturers’ representatives – interview with legal counsel Gerald M. Newman
Read what Mr. Newman says about establishing good contract manufacturing and sales representative agreements, contractual disputes and business challenges parties need to be aware of, industry trend segments for sales representatives in the active and inactive semi-conductor sector, and more.
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Contract manufacturing risk mitigation and risk management
As contract manufacturing business development wins more OEM programs, the risk of the contract manufacturer not being able to recover his investment decreases because similar outsource product manufacturing programs often have similar startup support requirements.
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Direct cost, total cost of ownership, and reducing risk in low cost locations
Countries in low cost regions such as Asia and Eastern Europe may well be better positioned for many high volume manufacturing product needs. Furthermore, in many instances, these geographies may be ideal for offering a stronger ROI when executives are engaged in high-volume production.
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Contract electronics manufacturing service agreement for OEM hardware
This service level agreement contract can provide baseline guidance when outsourcing manufacturing electronics services.
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Five things contract manufacturers say they can improve on
Our survey asked electronics contract manufacturers, original design manufacturers, and prototype houses to rank, in order of importance, their top 5 improvement opportunities. Read what they selected.
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