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How Contract Manufacturing is Reshaping the Device Industry
Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry

By some estimates, the global market for outsourced medical devices is now $8 billion. Industry executives say that the trends favoring outsourcing are likely not only to continue, but to grow stronger in coming years. Outsourcing of manufacturing operations has clearly become a widely accepted practice among medical device companies. Potential benefits are many

Maximizing Your Contract Manufacturing Relationships
Jennifer Parkhurst

Cost pressures, globalization, complex pricing and regulatory environments are forcing pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies to focus on improving operational efficiency. Many companies have turned to outsourcing as the solution. While most companies recognize the strategic importance of outsourcing, many are not reaping its potential benefits.

This article is based on a 2002 PRTM survey of pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical executives about their contract manufacturing practices. It explores outsourcing trends

The ups and downs of contract manufacturing
Bill Roberts

Solectron Corp. was riding high in 1999, the year it became the largest contract manufacturer (CM) in the world. All CMs grew during the 1990s but none faster than Solectron, whose revenues rose from $300 million in 1989 to $8.4 billion a decade later. In December 1999, EB named Koichi Nishimura, who had engineered Milpitas, CA-based Solectron's growth through a flurry of acquisitions, CEO..

Contract Manufacturing Swoops In On Product Design And EE Jobs
Ron Schneiderman

Like a hawk, contract manufacturing is spreading its wings over the world of design and manufacturing,enveloping a product’s entire cycle from concept to sales. It was once called offshore assembly because that's all it involved the intricate and delicate assembly of complex integrated and hybrid circuits using cheap labor available outside of the U.S. But today we call it contract manufacturing, or electronic manufacturing services (EMS). This now common, worldwide practice affects every aspect of production, including concept, design, assembly, test, marketing, and even sales..

Contract Manufacturers: A Profitable Partnership
Shane Starling

Correct formulations and quality control are essential to the success of any end-product manufacturer of dietary supplements. Shane Starling investigates the role of contract manufacturers in contributing to that success. Most supplements manufacturers aren't really manufacturers at all supplements marketers and distributors' would be a more accurate description. That's because the company whose name appears on the bottle does not make most supplements. Although some, such as Solgar, Centrum and Nature's Plus, do make their own, most are happy to farm out the manufacturing to third parties contract manufacturers (CMs). Some will employ more than one CM

China's Domestic Market Heats Up
Rob Spiegel

While the shift of contract manufacturing to China is grabbing headlines, there is another area of component sales growth in China that dwarfs the transfer to EMS providers.

For many distributors, China's indigenous market is more substantial than the business of serving contract manufacturers (CMs). Avnet, the Memec Group and others have indicated that component sales for products going to China's consumers and businesses far outweighs sales to CMs that have moved to China