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Cutting New Product Costs By Up to 80% with GCE

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The Great Benefits of Adopting a Global Concurrent Engineering (GCE) Model

Conceptualized in the 1900’s and grown during WWII, concurrent engineering (CE) has been the most competitive operation model used by some leading industries. Since the 1980’s, the semiconductor industry has been using CE to achieve superb speed to market for both IC chips and equipment manufacturing. However, due to restrictions in both resources and operational capabilities, only a few of business in other industries are able to practice this model. From design to manufacturing has always been a major challenge – implementing this at a global scale only exacerbates the situation. With 20 years of development experience and successes, E-BI can help clients to ramp up their Global Concurrent Engineering (GCE) workflow seamlessly using its artificial intelligence based global supply chain management system (GSCM), cross-functional specialty engineering teams and Star Factory Alliance. The GCE model will not only shorten your time on proving a new product’s manufacturability during the NPI stage, but also achieve the fastest speed to market.
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What It Takes to Get an Accurate Manufacturing Quote

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Low price has always been the number one goal for a buyer. Quality has been a fear factor behind failure of a so called lowest price. The service level, such as response speed to an urgent demand or change, is usually ignored at the time of negotiation. While a decision maker understands that his/her business success depends on the optimization of these three factors, many decision makers fail to achieve the right optimization of the complex decision making process of choosing the right partner. An accurate price manufacturing quote should be sustainable for your type of industry and business model that can position your product as the leader of your competitive area, when an operating situation changes with time.

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Controlling the Snowflake Effect on Project Cost

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For contract manufacturing projects that aim to produce a product, project cost includes the overall works in design, engineering, manufacturing, quality, project management, and supply chain management. Within each of these categories, work can be divided into many sub-sectors with even more specialty tasks that intertwine with each other. Management teams try to put a budget on the project based on their best estimate. However, there are still many gray areas in the details of each task where decisions need to be made based on skills and best known methods (BKM). Without doing so, this is where the Snowflake Effect can be seen.

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DFM

3 Reasons Why DFM is Important to Think About

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DFM (design for manufacturing) is the process of designing your product with the goal of making it easy to manufacture. It is a critical manufacturing tooling design and process development step before making a brand new product. If done well, DFM will assure both quality and productivity. Here are 3 reasons why you must take DFM into account in your planning:

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Just-in-Time supply chain model

When JIT Meets Murphy’s Law

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In the contract manufacturing business, supply chain professionals know that an interruption in the supply chain will cause turmoil, and can even shut down the ecosystem of a sub-contractor network. This may lead to a major surge in overhead costs when re-establishing the system, and can also cause delays and lost revenue. They also know that the world is full of uncertainties, which are governed by Murphy’s Law (in short, Murphy’s Law can be explained as “what can go wrong, will go wrong”). So what does this have to do with the Just-In-Time (JIT) business model?

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How is a Batch of Customized Products Manufactured?

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You’ve placed an order and you’re ready to get your customized products manufactured. Now what? What are the next steps in the process?

The Process

After an order is placed and confirmed, E-BI will dedicate a project team to your product. They will hold a kick-off meeting to discuss the timeline and product manufacturing specifications, such as detailed Bill of Materials (BOM) lists,

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