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Article: CMs offer more services to OEMs.(contract manufacturers, original equipment manufacturers)
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- May 21, 1998
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Renowned bank thief Willie Sutton was once asked by a reporter why he robbed banks. "Because that's where the money is," he replied.
That pithy response also answers the question why electronics contract manufacturers (CMs) are offering more manufacturing, design, and logistics services to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). As OEMs become more comfortable outsourcing, they are looking to CMs to do more than just build a printed circuit board (PCB) or a cable harness.
Increasingly, OEMs want CMs to help design boards and systems and many are adding engineers to their staff. CMs also are being called on not only to build boards, but subsystems and, in more ...