86 SMT Magazine • December 2017
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It's Only Common Sense:
Marketing Your Contract
Manufacturing Company
We often focus on North Amer-
ica's shrinking PCB fabricator
landscape, which is are now
down to less than 200 shops.
But there are well over 1,000
contract electronics manufac-
turers in existence, and they
come in all shapes and sizes.
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Joining Forces: SMTA and the
SMART Group in Europe
Tanya Martin, executive di-
rector at SMTA, and Keith
Bryant, global director of
sales for YXLON Interna-
tional and chairman of
the SMART Group, speak
with I-Connect007 Man-
aging Editor Patty Gold-
man about the latest initiatives within their asso-
ciations, and discuss some interesting news about
an upcoming merger.
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5 Simple Elements to Guarantee
Outsourcing Success
Rather than viewing
outsourcing as a way
to offload unwanted
tasks, OEMs should
spend time careful-
ly selecting and then
maintaining a prop-
erly managed rela-
tionship with their chosen EMS partner.
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Surprising European
EMS Market Numbers
If you think market analysis
is always correct and pre-
dict the future exactly, you
are mistaken. The latest
annual reports from EMS
companies with manufac-
turing sites in Europe have
changed the picture on
the European EMS industry
quite a bit and caught us by surprise. Yes, you read
that correctly: SURPRISE.
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