Flextronics opens new technology centre in Mexico

Flextronics (NASDAQ: FLEX) announced the grand opening of its Technology Center in Guadalajara, Mexico.Located on its Industrial Park in Guadalajara, Flextronics’ Technology Center combines a highly skilled technical staff with state-of-the-art equipment to provide customers with complete product analysis and test characterization services. By conducting reliability testing and failure analysis early in the development process, Flextronics eliminates product defects and maximizes production yields. In addition, by integrating these services into the company’s Industrial Park, Flextronics significantly reduces response time for failure analysis and recommendations from onsite suppliers and internal processes.Additional services provided by the Technology Center include qualification of new processes, technologies, and materials; product and process qualification during early engineering verification and design validation; characterization of product during new product introductions; and centralized development of in-circuit test programs and X-ray laminography programs."We are delighted to include the Technology Center as part of our diverse infrastructure in Guadalajara," commented Mike McNamara, Flextronics’ Chief Operating Officer. "By integrating complete product analysis and characterization with our existing offerings, we are well positioned to meet the increasing customer demand to accelerate new product introductions."