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Article: Why are more contract manufacturers adding contract design services?(DESIGN VIEWPOINT)
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- Medical Product Outsourcing
- Article date:
- March 1, 2007
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To understand why more contract manufacturers are adding contract design to their services, one must look at the relationship between device firms and contract manufacturers. The contract manufacturers always have seen themselves as filling one void or another in the device life cycle. By offering services that appeal to device firms for reasons such as capacity, cost and capabilities, contract manufacturers are positioned to play increasingly significant roles in the development of new devices.
Contract manufacturers have been evolving through physical expansion, by adding services as well as by developing and adopting new technologies. In the past, when medical ...