September 26, 2007 – The ability to offer a complete range of manufacturing services: from box-build to complete supply chain management, is now virtually a prerequisite for …
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Trends & Observations
European electronics manufacturing services (EMS) forecast through 2011 in new report
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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12 Questions for the Occam Process before buying the farm
The Occam Process is touted to be environmentally compliant or, friendly. However, the process uses photolithography and copper plating procedures. Aren’t these processes quite ‘dirty’? Won’t these processes, which will be new to most potential adopters, be a challenge to implement?
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Greenpeace guide to greener electronics: Electronics industry starting to go green
The biggest movers in the latest guide are Sony and LG Electronics. Both have had their penalty points lifted as they have left a …
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Being ‘green’ becoming part of purchase process
September 18, 2007 – For American consumers, greenness is emerging as a key issue – though not a universal factor yet but important enough to …
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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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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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