From an electronics product engineering perspective understand where your new product introduction (NPI) activity will take place relative to EMS manufacturing.
The tendency for many OEMs is to have your NPI activity where your EMS factory is but its also suitable, depending if there is a great deal of product complexity, to have your NPI occur nearby your development teams. This assumes your EMS partner is not doing product development for you.
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If your EMS provider is also performing NPI services you can select EMS partners with NPI locations nearby your development centers. Its important to note you could increase your risks if your NPI center is a different company than your EMS solution, which you want to try to avoid, because the cost of transferring programs from your NPI center to a different EMS production location is likely going to be expensive.
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Then, once your NPI location is determined, and if your EMS production is in one location, your manufacturing location is where you can focus most of your time on cost reductions and benefits.
Industrial Electronics New Product Launch and NPI Management
Learn more about industrial electronics new product NPI program launch and cost management with the Venture Outsource 30-page handbook you can request here.
Designed for non-traditional electronics OEM companies, our handbook is divided into the primary topics below, with several topics going deeper, with detailed industry examples and clear suggestions and checklists for readers to consider:
- OEM Outline for Electronic Prototype and New Product Development
- EMS Manufacturing Request-for-Proposal (RFP) Terms
- EMS Manufacturing Request-for-Quote (RFQ) Best Practices
- EMS Manufacturing Industry Quote Pricing Drivers
- EMS Manufacturing Program Workflows, Flowcharts
- EMS Manufacturing NPI Systems Integration (Box Build) Checklist
Our handbook can help guide industrial electronics OEM manufacturers when formulating and benchmarking their new product launch roadmap and pricing strategy. Request this handbook.
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