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Contract Manufacturing / Electronics Manufacturing Services
Contract Manufacturers / Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) providers must optimize electronics manufacturing productivity to meet the demands of global Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) customers, requiring high flexibility and agility. EMS companies must manage operational complexity, have a global support footprint, and address constant pressure to drive costs down, while continuously promoting operational excellence.
In partnership with Siemens Digital Industries we offer solutions which enable EMS providers to overcome these challenges and effectively collaborate with OEM customers, and optimise the manufacturing of increasingly complex products.
Managing the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) / electronics manufacturing services (EMS) relationship includes receiving and analysing specifications and managing design information and changes, providing accurate and competitive bids with estimates of cost and production times, managing design information and changes, collaborating across the entire life of the product, managing internal and external production factors, and in the case of an original design manufacturer (ODM) supplier, delivering a robust design environment that can map customer requirements and specifications to a successful product design.
Production ramp up time, pricing pressures, customer changes, technology changes, global markets and supply chains are some of the top issues EMS providers today. Whether your OEM customer is a consumer or an industrial electronics company, or your company provides full design and logistical services as an ODM, product lifecycles continue to shrink, which means bringing increasingly complex products to global markets entails more effort and risk than ever before.
How do you address these pressures? How do you manage product content and collaborate with all stakeholders to reduce the risk, time and cost, while improving quality and aligning products to meet customer demands? Planning, designing, manufacturing and servicing products must be managed in unison to provide products that not only work, but also meet customer needs, hit price points and align with regulatory requirements.
Our solutions provide EMS providers with the capabilities to create an optimized production environment to meet the increasingly complex product needs of their OEM customers. EMS leaders must utilize production resources efficiently to support the needs of multiple customers and products, be responsive to changes in the marketplace and compliant with a variety of global regulations and directives that can mean the difference between a product being a success or failure.
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Short product lifecycles, seasonal demand fluctuations, intense competition and increased end user customization allow little time for developing optimal manufacturing processes. This complexity is further compounded by the fact that EMS providers need to cope with multiple live products at any given time. Designing and validating the new product introduction (NPI) process offline allows full use of manufacturing resources, whether for high-mix or high-volume scenarios, resulting in maximum uptime and achieving highest throughput from time of production launch. The process is inherently flexible as users are able to select specific lines or manufacturing sites based on simulation results in the process plan.
This flexibility also enables EMS providers to cope with severe volatility in the form of fluctuations in job orders, sudden schedule changes and increased production mix.
Whether you operate as a pure EMS or an end-to-end ODM provider, we offer a fully unified suite of solutions to improve the efficiency and profitability of your organization, and can facilitate the effective collaboration between you and your customers.