New buildings, booming economy, plenty of English-speaking folks around you, hopping restaurants, lots to see. What more can you ask for? It depends if you are in Hong Kong or Shenzhen.
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Trends & Observations
Hong Kong v Shenzhen for daily living
10 Reasons OEMs know your EMS manufacturing relationship is on the rocks
What happens inside the EMS factory when you’re not there can be surprising. OEMs just want to know your EMS partner is managing your program business the way you would. But this might not always be the case. Here’s how to find out when things are not going as you hoped.
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SAP v Oracle in automating electronics manufacturing
SAP is good at promoting specific solutions and convincing electronis OEM and EMS/ODM companies their product meets customer needs. Oracle is more tuned into finding out your manufacturing needs than using its frankenware to meet requirements.
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Foxconn amid industrial-minded investors in manufacturing with robotics cloud platform
Top industrial-minded investors include GE, Intel, Qualcomm, Saudi Aramco, Autodesk…while Foxconn builds its own cloud robotics platform.
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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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Top 10 EMS Providers in USA Midwest – 2016
We asked electronics solutions professionals worldwide who they feel have the best factories and design centers. Below are their choices for 2016 for the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
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