Venture Outsource presents online Webcast on strengths, challenges, competitive tactics and value propositions of ten top electronics manufacturing services (EMS) providers. Additionally, read about overall EMS industry inventories and trends in the printed circuit board (PCB) industry, and more...

Read about Jabi's work-cell business model and the industry challenges for smaller EMS providers finding differentiation difficult.

This month we cover the lackluster performance of the printed circuit board (PCB) market, troubled demand outlook for servers, OEM seeking cost savings from their contract manufacturers and, how some EMS companies appear to be managing inventory.

Read about some of the pending changes and challenges companies face with RoHS and WEEE regulation taking shape, demand for notebooks and personal computing products on a global scale, IT infrastructure equipment, and more...

Venture Outsource is a supporting partner with the upcoming medical electronics congress taking place in France later this year. Also in this issue, read about pricing pressures in the printed circuit board market and how the wireless infrastructure market is performing.

Read about India's determination to become a global destination source for EMS and what Venture Outsource believes India must do to help realize its potential. Also this month, read about demand in the wireless and other end-market segments and some of the benefits of lean manufacturing.