72 SMT Magazine • October 2014
ArTiCLE
Cooperating with a fabless PCB provider
who offers individualized solution can be a fur-
ther benefit. Individually picking services that
are important to have available locally (yellow
part in Figure 4) vs. those services (lesser im-
portance—faded part in Figure 4) that can be
provided from offshore locations at a different
price point, can help shape an individual TCO
Figure 3: Total cost of ownership.
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