To try and make sense of the constant marketing push for Watson I looked into Watson’s projects. I wanted to see and gauge the success stories, but finding them proved difficult. So difficult I could not find one. But what …
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Benchmarks & Best Practices
Watson is IBM’s Hail Mary pass: Why its not working
Demand exceeds solutions for electrical cables, wiring harness assembly in Silicon Valley, beyond
Industry trends are making finding capacity for quality electrical cable and wiring harness design and manufacturing assembly challenging. This article offers some solutions.
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Electronics distribution ripe for disruption
As distributors work to diversify, some senior executives are being reshuffled, and others are being released or, some executives without vested interests are jumping ship to EMS providers.
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How to compare Flex, Jabil, Sanmina, Celestica manufacturing supply chain capabilities
“My electronics manufacturing solutions provider just sold me a bill of goods, conveying their manufacturing supply chain capabilities and framing the narrative with “superior supply chain predictability, agility, and visibility”. This is how EMS provider Sanmina positions their manufacturing execution …
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EMS Manufacturer Supply Chain Competitive Readiness Questionnaire – Document
Some areas this questionnaire can help manufacturers reduce costly IDL errors and better manage IDL productivity and supply chain execution include BOM management, purchasing and planning, materials and inventory management, scheduling and work orders, sales and operations planning (S&OP), manufacturing execution systems (MES), risks in third-party IP ownership against supply chain technology stacks, and manufacturing artificial intelligence, to name a few.
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OEM cash-in-advance EMS manufacturing
One way OEMs can help get potential EMS partners to commit includes being open to cutting change orders and adding to your AVL to make things easier for EMS providers to get through their materials acquisition cycle.
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Electronic OEM commodity management, and contradictions
“What I find misleading is the word ‘commodity’ it means common materials which are low-cost and highly available.”
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Why EMS PCB assembly companies lose B2B customer opportunities
The EMS industry has a high failure rate when it comes to new business lead opportunities v. percent of new customer deals closed. Its not surprising most EMS top line growth is from incumbent OEM customers giving their EMS providers additional business. EMS growth has little to do with exceptional EMS marketing and sales techniques.
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Moving high mix electronics assembly from Mexico to China
Question: I am looking for an EMS or ODM with factory in Mexico. I have a low volume, high mix product line I am planning to move to Mexico from China. Can you send me a list? I am also …
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5 Ways electronics OEMs and EMS providers purchase from semiconductor component vendors
The following 5 scenarios detail how electronics OEM companies and contract EMS providers award purchase orders to semiconductor vendors.
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