Many mid-sized flexible circuits manufacturers displayed 20 microns pitch and finer circuits for single-sided and double-sided circuits. A few companies employed the semi-additive process for pitches finer than …
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Supply Chain Management
Printed circuit board and related materials trends
Chasing EMS value with low-volume / high-mix
Well-done high-mix, low-cost EMS work requires strong process engineering, good systems and infrastructure, and experienced management talent. Many EMS companies, particularly in low-volume / high-mix are continuing to lose money …
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Dell strategy: Mobile PC outsourcing benefits and drawbacks
Starting from late 2007, Dell began to experiment with a manufacturing approach that had been used by Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Acer for years, which was to let ODMs ship …
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28.3% drop in printed circuit board shipments
Sales and orders improved in March over the first two months of the year due to seasonal effects, but year-on-year growth in rigid PCBs is still down significantly due …
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Schweizer Electronic and Japan’s Meiko Electronics make deal
Under the strategic partnership, Schweizer Electronic will be exclusively responsible for European printed circuit board (PCB) customers and Meiko Electronics exclusively for Asian PCB customers …
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Mobile phones: Troubled contract manufacturing?
When the economy is strong and market demand is good, this model will help an EMS provider grow because economies of scale can be leveraged and the manufacturing business and the component business can …
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Taiwan IC Design: Netbook opportunities, challenges
Nonetheless, this may not necessarily be viewed as negative for Taiwan fabless companies as the lower IC content should be offset by Taiwan’s nearly 100% market share of the netbook market compared to …
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March bounce in electronic component orders
Global electronic equipment production will fall by 11.9% this year, compared to a 0.2% gain in 2008.
When the recovery comes, it will …
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Electronics manufacturing services value is not cost reductions
Real problem with EMS industry is inability to effectively communicate its value proposition. Pressure on EMS firms relates to the mistaken belief the core value proposition of outsourced manufacturing is cost reductions.
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Savings and perils in lean supply chains
As more companies transition to a vendor-managed materials management solution, they put their supply chain destiny in the abilities of chosen …
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