Design globally, make locally?

摘要

Readers of edn know that contract and out- sourced manufacturing are major factors in our in- dustry. Fewer and fewer companies operate their own production and assembly facilities; some industry analysts believe that less than half the pc boards we design and make are loaded, soldered, and put into their final enclosures at production lines owned by the design engineer's company. (Reference 1 contains an overview of today's contract-manufacturing industry and its top 100 companies.)