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EMS in Asia
The trend for EMS companies to concentrate their volume manufacturing in low-cost countries is still going strong. China is firmly established as the leading country for manufacturing thanks to its massive home market, low prices, and developed infrastructure. About half of the slightly over one billion mobile phones produced worldwide in 2007 were made in […]
Elcoteq highlights Total Cost of Ownership in Next-Generation Mobile Technologies Seminar 2008 in Tokyo, Japan
Further to Elcoteq’s COO Jukka Jäämaa discussion on Total Cost of Ownership as CeBit Global Confrences Panelist, Elcoteq’s Business Development Director of Personal Communications Business Dr. Folkert Wierda presented a keynote speech on this topic again at above seminar on 17th April. The speech title was “IEMS: From ‘Quick Fix’ to Best Total Cost of […]
CeBit 2008: Elcoteq’s COO Jukka Jäämaa Discusses Total Cost of Ownership as CeBit Global Conferences Panelist
Why the total cost of ownership (TCO) approach is a solution for communication technology customers was the theme of panelist Jukka Jäämaa, COO of Elcoteq, at the CeBit Global Conference in Hanover, Germany. It was presented as part of the discussion panel “The Global Value-added Chain – Myth or Reality?”
The panel was moderated by Thomas […]
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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