Read about Flextronics' deal with Hewlett-Packard involving cell phone imaging and the Company's reduction in work force with a facility in France. Celestica updates guidance believed to be partly related to poor performance of Mexico operations, Nam Tai Electronics announces a new CEO, and more…
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Product Market Segments
Industry Pulse: Flextronics, Celestica, Nam Tai Electronics, Plexus, Benchmark
Checklist: Evaluating electronics product design for manufacturing (DfM) services
Product design for manufacturing considerations can culminate into an exhausting list of items. Taking measures to consider as many design requirement aspects as early as possible during development can help companies save time and money when contract manufacturers are involved.
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Interview with defense provider Sypris Electronics
Sypris defense electronics provider CEO talks about the defense electronics services sector and the top five criteria when evaluating defense electronics service providers.
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Allied Telesis operations executive Scott Clark interview on quality and supply chain management
Read what Scott Clark, vice president, global procurement and operations with standards-based networking product company Allied Telesis, has to say about contract manufacturing, and more…
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Interview with Avnet’s Roy Vallee
"…carrying excess parts inventory on the balance sheet ties up a company's capital. So today you will find companies more disciplined in supply-chain practices. Implementing systems like vendor managed inventory (VMI) through a broad …"
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Military and defense electronics contract manufacturers
The military and defense market is attractive to North American prime contractors (OEMs such as Boeing, Raytheon, or Northrop Grumman, which in turn, contract with the United States Department of Defense (DoD)) because…
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Avionics and aerospace electronics contract manufacturers
The avionics and aerospace electronics outsourcing market is growing faster than the overall outsourcing market. One of the quality standards OEM executives must be sure their contract manufacturing partners have is AS9100 for the aerospace industry.
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Cell phones, handsets electronics contract manufacturers
With this trend shift, contract manufacturers that are vertically integrated will reap greater benefits than their non-vertically integrated competitors as total outsourced volume increases and the percentage of higher content (i.e., more complex) cell phones decreases.
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Medical and instrumentation electronics contract manufacturers
Contract manufacturers in this space should have extensive knowledge in, and be able to provide valuable guidance with, product regulatory requirements such as Pre-Market Notification (PMA or 510(k)) as well as Notified Body submissions for CE Mark compliance.
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Hardware startup strategy for electronics design and manufacturing to market launch
Startup executives can refer to this plan to help them review internal depth and scope capabilities against anticipated company capability requirements so they may then determine at what point it may make sense to consider evaluating and engaging a contract product design partner or contract manufacturing partner.
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