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Time-to-Market and Time-to-Volume: critical success factors for product launches
As product innovation is absolutely fundamental to the market, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) struggle to keep pace with consumers whose demands for new phones and product replacement are growing at a high rate. Manufacturing is regarded less and less as a source of competitive advantage for OEMs. Product innovation, brand image and product sales are […]
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REACH Unifies Chemicals Legislation
The European Union’s chemicals legislation was reformed at the beginning of June 2007 when the new REACH Regulation came into force. REACH is intended to improve the protection of human health and the environment and develop chemicals legislation in the European Union.
REACH is short for Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals. The primary objective […]
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An Organization for Customers
As from the beginning of the year 2008, Elcoteq has adopted a new customer-centric organization model. The new model was launched in order to support global communication technology customers better. The company also wishes to simplify and further standardize its existing processes.
Global customers wish to deal with products and manufacture over geographical boundaries. Accordingly, Elcoteq […]
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Manufacturing in Eastern Europe
According to a recent report by Frost & Sullivan, the electronics manufacturing services (EMS) market in Eastern Europe will grow from about $9 billion in 2006 to nearly $24 billion in 2013*. This is not a surprise. Eastern Europe has a culture and infrastructure conducive to volume manufacturing and EMS companies have been established there […]
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Elcoteq readiness to address immense opportunity for OEMs in India
India is one of the fastest growing markets with sizeable growth potential. Mobile phone production revenue is expected to reach $13.6 billion by 2011 from $4.9 billion in 2006, a CAGR of 26.6 percent. The growth in production will be driven mainly by the expanding mobile subscriber base in India and favorable local government policies […]
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Early involvement drives better quality
Product innovations need to be realized quickly before new technology renders them obsolete and the total product cycle - design to manufacture - must be improved to gain the required quality at reasonable cost. Early partnership between design and manufacturing is proving to be very effective in shortening the product development cycle. Continuous feedback and […]
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System Integration Services: A New Role for the EMS
The term “system integration” is widely used, but basically just means the process of integrating a group of interacting, interrelated, or independent elements into a complex whole. It means putting together the complete product, ready to be shipped to the end customer. Besides the physical assembly and testing of a product, it includes other value-added […]
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Reduced TCO for Mobile Phones using Turnkey Modules
As EMS companies have become more involved in design and increased their R&D efforts, they have started to work on advanced miniaturization technologies and different component packaging methods. One method to improve TCO and solve some of the design challenges for multifunctional phones is to use modules instead of discrete components.
The module approach offers many […]
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Handset Outsourcing as a Competitive Imperative
Outsourcing is no longer an option that mobile handset OEMs can choose to ignore. The commoditization of the mobile handset industry is reshaping market dynamics on a global scale as major OEMs struggle to keep pace with consumers whose rate of demand for product replacement is growing higher and higher.
Outsourcing has been a successful way […]
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Why Focus Matters
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Electronic Manufacturing Services for Communications Technology
Communications technology changes demand additional services from electronic manufacturing services (EMS) companies. The EMS must master the technologies and invest in the equipment and capacity these changes demand. Their link with their customers and involvement in that customer�s technology and markets differentiates EMS companies.
Relying on outsourcing can help OEMs, but […]
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