Plexus Corp. is beefing up its North America operation with the addition of a 265,000 sq. ft. plant in Guadalajara, Mexico, as the world’s leading contract manufacturers respond to growing requests from OEMs for production facilities situated closer to end customers. After years of expanding operations in the Far East top-tier electronics manufacturing services (EMS)…
Plexus Corp. (PLXS), said its board of directors has approved a new stock repurchase program under which the company is authorized to repurchase up to $30 million of its common stock during fiscal 2014. The planned repurchase represents approximately 3 percent of current market capitalization and is expected to be funded with existing cash. The…
It’s a barely noticeable trickle now but what if all the prodigal Western OEMs who shifted production en masse to low-cost locations in Asia suddenly move even a single-digit percentage of their manufacturing volume back home? Will the electronics supply chain be able to handle the flood and does the industry anymore have the intellectual…
In an industry where engineering is constantly feeding new products to the manufacturing floor, several disciplines must be in place to assure the smoothest transitions from the R&D group to the operations group. While New Product Introductions (NPI) and associated processes are key to managing lowest costs and highest quality products from introduction to obsolescence…
Viking Technology, a division of EMS provider Sanmina Corp. and supplier of solid state drives (SSDs), non-volatile dual in-line memory module (NVDIMMs), and DRAM, said SolidFire has selected its SATADIMM SSD as both the cache SSD and boot volume SSD for their storage nodes. Viking Technology’s SATADIMM SSD enables SolidFire to offer enhanced products by…
Flextronics (FLEX) announced today that Lenovo recently honored its Sarvar, Hungary, location with the prestigious Perfect Quality Award. Janos Lang, general manager, at Flextronics Hungary, accepted the award on behalf of the company at Lenovo’s annual global supplier conference held in Hefei, China. The Perfect Quality Award from Lenovo was the result of Flextronics’ near…
I wonder at times why so many companies hide their best and brightest minds, products and departments in some dark corners while endlessly and tirelessly parading once popular but steadily fading divisions before a tired crowd. That’s the case with the electronics industry where the already obvious – microprocessor, smartphone, PCs, digital TV, etc. –…
Contract manufacturers may be able to one day put away their cost-cutting scalpel but that won’t be for a while going by events in the market today. In the electronics manufacturing services (EMS) sector, cost-cutting and never-ending rounds of corporate reorganizations have become a way of life as customers and their contractors engage in a…
I am going to share how some customers are using Lytica tools to save money; big money. If you buy or sell electronic components, you need our tools. Anyone requesting or receiving quotes for components today needs Component Cost Estimator (CCE). Clients are using CCE to verify quotes when received. It is fast (analysis takes…
Benchmark Electronics, Inc., a leading integrated contract manufacturing provider, today announced financial results for the second quarter which ended June 30, 2013. Three Months Ended June 30, March 31, June 30, 2013 2013 2012 Net sales…
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