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Article: The right tool for the job: determining the right-sized EMS provider for your high-mix, low-volume work.(EMS)
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- Circuits Assembly
- Article date:
- November 1, 2002
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Imagine these scenarios: You're in the dentist's chair for a filling, and the dentist produces a jackhammer to commence the drilling. A home is in flames, and the firefighters arrive with water pistols. High-mix, low-volume printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) is awarded to a Top Five electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider. You need to outsource the assembly of 10 million modem cards, and the winner is your uncle's cousin who does a little soldering in his basement on the weekends. Preposterous statements? Yes, all of them, but only one of them is likely to occur.
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