While internal, defensive, cost-control issues dominated the companies’ reports; most firms also …
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Trends & Observations
Taking the pulse of EMS
Rising ruppee mean opportunity for Indian IT companies
In terms of productivity, a large proportion of work carried out from India tends to be on a Time & Material (T & M) basis. In general, there are few incentives in T & M contracts to raise productivity. With rising costs and shrinking margins…
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Taiwan – India relations warming and soaring
Two giant Taiwan wafer OEM manufacturers, Taiwan Semi-Conductor and UMC established offices and customer service branches in India. For much of Taiwan business, the examples of these Taiwanese companies provide India…
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Why Toyota will be number one in 2007
September 10, 2007 – It seems almost conflicting that one of Toyota's business strategies is ‘no long term business plan'. Of course, Toyota management team does think about the long term; whereas …
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Cost analysis and the teardown
I am skeptical about the accuracy of cost analysis teardowns. Normally, list prices for components (the figure used in the analysis report) are …
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Hon Hai (Foxconn) Vietnam mega-site update
Depending on future Hon Hai customer demand, the Company plans to employ approximately 300,000 employees in Vietnam over the course …
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Design guru John Maeda on Apple’s love potion and product design
In this popular interview Dr. Maeda isolates the source behind Apple’s iPhone success; discusses product design for manufacturing (DfM) and end-user usability, and more.
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Tom Donohue, U.S. Chamber of Commerce on outsourcing and offshoring
"The fact of the matter is we insource at least $50 billion more in service work than we outsource. The jobs we gain in the U.S. far outnumber the amount of jobs we … "
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Printed circuit board industry to see global revenues reach upwards of $76 billion by 2012
Global revenues for printed circuit boards (PCB) are given for a multitude of categories and the report details how regional shifts in PCB production and usage will continue through …
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Saigon Hi-Tech Park and Vietnam Infrastructure
A discussion with Saigon Hi-Tech Park president about Vietnam, internal-country infrastructure, challenges facing the Park, executive manufacturing concerns and more.
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