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Deep collaboration as the key to successful outsourcing
Continuously shortening product lifecycles in the mobile phone market requires electronic manufacturing service (EMS) companies to react promptly to offer customized services to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). Having a deep collaboration helps both the OEM and EMS to share ideas continuously in real-time or on-demand when dealing with problems.
Deep collaboration is a prerequisite for Original […]
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Shaping the future
By Andrea Roberts
Photo: Miika Kainu
Personal Communications became a separate business area of Elcoteq in January 2008 in order to ensure a customer centric organization. Towards that end, 2008 has been spent on implementing and fine-tuning the PC business area for optimized set-up. The business area is strongly focusing on offering the complete value chain to […]
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Elcoteq in pursuit of going green
Starting from the 2008 World Environment Day on June 5th, Elcoteq’s locations globally have undertaken a series of actions to raise employees’ environmental awareness and responsibility as well as their contribution to sustainable development.
Several green programs have been carried out in a row throughout the year. Elcoteq’s plants in China and India launched energy-saving programs […]
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After Market Services
Recycling, repairing and recovering are an essential part of after market services. The world will become greener by good design – or by directives and legislation, if necessary.
by Folkert Wierda and Ted Gardham, Elcoteq
”After Market Services” (AMS) is often an after thought when designing and manufacturing products. However, with the passing of the Waste Electrical […]
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EMS company’s perspective on growing versatile Mobile Phones
Entertainment and utility services for mobile phones are growing from strength to strength, and in practice all Internet services can now be used with a mobile phone. For instance the mobile phone user can trade in securities, watch television, play games, send instant messages and follow the commentary of football matches in real time. The […]
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The First Female General Manager of Elcoteq in China
At a time when men still dominate as leaders in the manufacturing field, Elcoteq’s Cecilia Liu is breaking ground as general manager of Elcoteq’s Dongguan, China plant. In her role as general manager, Liu is responsible for ensuring that all operations run smoothly and that there is optimal utilization of resources to satisfy the needs […]
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Innovation is Key
Insides from Mr. Folkert Wierda, Director Business Development, Personal Communications at Elcoteq
Our customers´ expectations are changing. Our role is no longer simply that of a manufacturer, we have become owners of significant parts of the value chain. This means that we must continuously seek better ways of playing our part. There is also a […]
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Reducing Total Cost of Ownership for Mobile Handset Design and Production
With mounting pressure from all sides of the supply chain, the mobile handset business is at the cusp of a major evolution in its design and manufacturing approach to keep the industry moving forward. The electronic manufacturing services (EMS) companies who design and manufacture mobile phones, and the mobile phone OEMs, can better adapt to […]
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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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DFx Collaboration Yields Positive Results Towards Total Cost of Ownership
DFx, or design for x, is the value added service of instituting best practices in the design stage to improve x, where x is desirable attributes such as manufacturability, assembly, and test. Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) involves the entire supply chain and its management. Since electronics manufacturing services (EMS) companies have been involved in […]
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