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24 Jul '12, 11pm

OEMs looking for EMS: A (rather short) "'How to' guide to outsourcing design and manufacture"

Willie MacKinnon, v-p customer management with Plexus outlines what are the key guidelines a company should consider when it comes to selecting an electronics manufacturing services (EMS) partner. Tough competition and increasing regulation alongside the pressure to produce a differentiated product: these are the challenges many OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) face in the current economic climate. Continuing cost constraints and reduced order levels are leading to a need to manage budgets and working capital more efficiently. This means that the demand for support from an electronics manufacturing services (EMS) partner has increased, especially in the areas of high-complexity, low-to-mid volume electronic devices for market sectors such as defence, aerospace, medical and industrial design. In the past an EMS would be engaged to perform a set function at one specif...

Full article: http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/25/07/2012/5418...

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