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Find Consumer Electronics Services Near You
Consumer electronics service providers cover a wide array of different OEM customer needs serving large portion of market populations as well as niche consumer electronics markets. VentureOutsource.com offers a free service to help consumer electronics OEMs expand your options when seeking contract electronics services for your product program. Call us at (888) 860-1193 and ask to speak with a Provider Advisor about provider offering electronics service for consumer electronics Its free! You can also expand your criteria here, when seeking consumer electronics services.
Understanding consumer electronics services
Electronics solutions providers offering services for consumer products are typically thought of as high-volume, low-mix contract electronic service providers. Think of products with an electronics circuit board used by people in their everyday lives: smartphones, calculators, fitness trackers, virtual reality (VR) headsets and related devices, tablets, headphones, consumer devices connected to the cloud, and so on …its a massive category of electronics. We suggest you read this article if you’re unsure which parts of your consumer electronics program to outsource.
Unlike market sectors such as medical, automotive or military electronics, to name a few – requiring a high degree of quality compliance/regulation – the design, manufacturing and distribution supply chain for most consumer electronics products is less so.
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YOUR ONE-STOP ELECTRONICS SERVICES DIRECTORY
One of our goals is to make it easy for electronics sourcing decision makers just like you to find quality electronics services. Our unique and extensive interactive marketplace of provider services helps you easily find, connect and target the electronics provider companies you need, exactly when you need them.
For any electronics industry market, get prepared to find your next contract electronics provider with us.
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SERVICES OFFERED BY CONSUMER ELECTRONICS PROVIDERS
Services offered by providers serving the consumer electronics market can vary. A few of the common services include:
- Consumer product concept design and prototyping and new product introduction (NPI)
- Front-end component design
- Engineering, electrical systems development
- SMT & PCB assembly with DfM, and functionality test
- Enclosure tooling and injection molding
- Box build, systems integration transfers
- Warehouse shipping and distribution services
- Reverse logistics and repair
With the electronics hardware trend here to stay and, venture-backed hardware startups portfolio companies re-emerging, local hardware Meetup groups growing, and massive online hacking communities plus, easy crowdfunding services like Indiegogo and Kickstarter, opportunity for designing, manufacturing consumer electronics and bringing these products to market has never been easier.
Here’s an outline for startup hardware electronics design and manufacturing considerations. Plus, tips and strategy for both startup and seasoned OEM professionals to help master the contract electronics services request-for-information (RFI), request-for-proposal (RFP) process and how to get more accurate quotes for electronics services during your request-for-quote (RFQ) process.
MANAGING YOUR CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SERVICE PROVIDER RELATIONSHIP
Whether you are working with an electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider or electronics original design manufacturing (ODM) partner you can review this checklist on evaluating EMS providers as well as this checklist for electronics ODM firms.
For additional info, take a look at these top 10 lists of the largest EMS and ODM services firms worldwide. You can also search for consumer electronics ODM firms using the pulldown below:
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As you fine-tune your list of consumer electronics services providers to work with, here’s a helpful article about suggestions what to look for when touring contract electronics services firms. And here.
Do you choose only to work with one electronics provider, or several? Here’s an article for insight on single- vs dual-sourcing contract electronics services.
As you move further along with your consumer electronics service provider, managing the outsourcing of your consumer electronics program is key to your success. Be sure to review this helpful article on electronics outsourcing program management.
You can find more articles and tips on contract electronics program management here.
HOW TO FIND PROVIDERS OF CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SERVICES
To find providers for consumer electronics services in your region you have interest in, search by geography here in the VentureOutsource.com Consumer Electronics Services Directory. You can use the inset below if you’d like help expanding your provider options. Also, be sure to check reviews of consumer contract electronics services written by other professionals. Add your review for providers you have experience with.
Once you’ve created your short list, check out this article on the four types of hardware contract agreements between OEMs and contract electronics services providers.
In addition to visiting consumer electronics services providers and visiting with their management team, it will be in your best interest to still ask for references. If you still want help, we offer a free service to OEMs. You can call us and speak with a Provider Advisor at (888) 860-1193.
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