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Article: Investment analysis for automotive electronics manufacturing: a case study.
- Article from:
- Engineering Economist
- Article date:
- June 22, 2004
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Electronics manufacturing is a cornerstone of the current global economy and presents many unique issues and opportunities to manufacturing and investment planners. These challenges involve many issues related to global manufacturing operations including personnel management, materials flow, procurement strategies, and program management. In addition, the rapidly changing environment for electronics manufacturing and the accelerating evolution of product designs create planning and execution challenges for electronic manufacturers. These problems are compounded by the need to produce complex products in very high volumes with a high level of quality.
To meet these ...