During the 1970s, 1980s and most of the 1990s, electronics manufacturers were “vertically integrated,” meaning virtually of all their production processes were conducted in-house. Raw materials entered one end of their factories and finished products left from the other.

But by the late 1990s, electronics manufacturers began recognizing the wisdom of their counterparts in the automotive sector who were already contracting out significant aspects of their manufacturing processes. They realized outsourcing offers Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) a far greater degree of flexibility and speed-to-market.

Since then, at an increasingly rapid rate, electronics manufacturers have been abandoning their long-held vertically integrated approach, and adopting an electronics manufacturing services (EMS) supply chain model that looks like this:

At Inventronics Limited, we know what OEMs are up against. Costs, processes and development cycles are under scrutiny like never before. Products must work better, cost less and hit the market sooner than they ever have in the past. That’s a very difficult challenge for traditional OEMs that do all their own manufacturing and, should changes be needed to the production process, lack the agility to react quickly.

OEM leaders are increasingly outsourcing many manufacturing functions to supply chain partners. When it comes to custom enclosures – wall-mounted or floor-mounted, indoors or outdoors – the opportunities for Inventronics to supply OEMs and Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) companies are continuing to grow.