471 survey respondents from EMS/ODM, Component Manufacturers, Distributors, Electronic Equipment Manufacturers, OEMs and Semiconductor Manufacturers answer questions on the economic situation; employment, inventory levels, business volume, and prices providing insight into the levels of …
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Industrial & Controls Electronics
Full report: EMS / ODM worry about profitability as fall 2011 survey reveals pessimism in electronics supply chain
EMS provider OnCore CEO Dan Perez talks defense, EMS challenges, OEM trust, growth
We talk with Dan Perez, CEO of privately held EMS provider OnCore Manufacturing Services. OnCore serves some of the fastest growing and most profitable markets in the EMS sector.
Perez talks candidly about OnCore’s roadmap strengths and challenges managing defense electronics assembly programs, gaining OEM trust, and offers one of the most comprehensive responses regarding battling counterfeit components we’ve heard in a long time, plus more in our open discussion.
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Breakdown of electronics end markets served by top EMS providers
Non-traditional EMS markets make up larger portion of business for smaller EMS providers such as Benchmark Electronics, Plexus. Automotive, medical electronics believed to be pivotal components to helping EMS market out of the recession. Also, covers Foxconn, Hon Hai, Jabil Circuit, Flextronics, Sanmina-SCI, Celestica.
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Benchmark Electronics EMS profile and challenges
The Pemstar acquisition failed to offset the much larger than expected 42 percent year-over-year sales decline Benchmark…
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EMS segment performance
The performance of many large, global EMS companies such as Jabil Circuit, Flextronics, Celestica, to name a few, is surely not …
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Acquisition gives Flextronics expanded global footing and capabilities
Until recently, Flextronics’ largest market segment was mobile phones, which accounted for over 30% of revenue. With the acquisition of Solectron this changes the entire landscape of the EMS, and ODM, industries.
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Worldwide electronics industry survey reveals trends and strategic priorities
Managers and executives in industry say what is on their minds about the process of evaluating and selecting outsourcing partners, how they manage their EMS and ODM partners, trends they see developing, and more.
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Supply chain contract delivery schedules, schedule changes, liability
Typically, what many OEMs are presented with from their contract manufacturing partners, with regards to supply chain contract scheduling and schedule changes, allows for schedule changes to occur but there is a limit to the degree of change in manufactured product volumes delivered.
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Interview with defense EMS provider Sypris Electronics president Bob Sanders
"Meanwhile, industry consolidation has resulted in a handful of large, prime contractors controlling a majority of key programs. The same is true for EMS providers, as traditional ‘commercial' suppliers, now entering the A&D…"
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Strategy for tech startups: Product contract manufacturing and design outsourcing strategy
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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