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Article: Making it under contract: use contract manufacturers wisely to avoid making your problems into theirs--or vice versa. (tech trends).(Industry Overview)
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- April 17, 2003
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AT A GLANCE
* Working with a contract manufacturer takes careful planning and teamwork before you OK manufacturing.
* Good product documentation and many kinds of communication between manufacturers and designers are keys to success in contracting.
* Contract manufacturers are expanding into design services, and design-only vendors are moving into manufacturing.
PRODUCTION LINES outside a product designers' company now fabricate more than half the assembled, non-IC products that designers now develop.
One company today assembles and tests products that another company designs, and these same fabrication facilities may tomorrow ...