While outsourcing manufacturing is not a new concept, contract electronics manufacturing gained significant traction in the mid-1990s, offering greater value than the traditional vertical manufacturing strategies (Accenture). Many OEMs realized that by outsourcing manufacturing and some, if not all, of their supply chain activities, they could be free to focus on core competencies and planning...Continue Reading
It’s no secret that electronics manufacturing in the U.S. has become a specialty, not only in terms of proficiency in emergency technologies, such as LED assemblies, but also from the standpoint of viability. Good, bad or indifferent, offshoring has been the demise of many commodity CEMs. We are all buyers of one sort or another,...Continue Reading