This month’s Icon is a true visionary for the industry, with a unique perspective, compared to our other founders. As a leading market research analyst and founder of Technology Forecasters, Pamela J. Gordon provided invaluable services to the industry as it evolved. She helped develop ways to measure and track…
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In this Icons of Industry series, the intent is not only to review the past, but to understand its implications: the electronics manufacturing industry is once again reinventing itself, and our position is that this is nothing new. Take Jabil for example…
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It’s that time of year, when the natural tendency is to take stock, evaluate, maybe pat yourself on the back, or resolve to do better. Here at EMSNOW we are looking at the exclusive content we have brought to our readers throughout 2019. This week, we focus on the…
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Eugene Polistuk is an Icon of Industry for believing in the power of hardware manufacturing at a time when his employer, IBM, was moving in the exact opposite direction. He is considered…
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Perhaps the Icon that has done the most to shape the current state of the global EMS industry is Taiwan’s 3rd richest man, Terry Gou, founder of Hon Hai Precision, aka Foxconn. His accomplishments…
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Sanmina has been a top tier EMS for many years regularly appearing near the top of EMS industry rankings. These accolades are mostly attributable to Jure Sola, the founder who helped establish and shape the company, and who still does so today. Mr. Sola was known as…
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Our Icon of Industry for this month is Flextronics’ Michael Marks, one of the first to envision a global electronics manufacturing footprint based on supply chains located in close physical proximity to each facility. This gave the company a competitive advantage in the early days of outsourcing.
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It may come as a surprise to the youngsters out there in the industry – at a time when it’s the software wunderkinds that are getting the $50,000 signing bonuses at graduation – that there was a time when electronics manufacturing was very cool. The best and the brightest STEM geniuses were trying to figure out how to make electronics smaller, lighter and faster and that meant that the fledgling EMS industry was the career choice that was changing the world. Our Icon of Industry this month is emblematic of this kind of cool…
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By many accounts, Zollner’s success is nearly unbelievable. They were a small family business that changed the course of an entire region. Manfred Zollner chose to start this industry in the middle of nowhere and truly believed that the business existed to help people in the community achieve a better life. This is why Manfred Zollner is one of the Icons of the EMS Industry.
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We bring you our first Icon in a series of articles entitled ‘EMSNOW’s Icons of Industry’ where we look back at the history of the EMS industry and tell the stories of those key individuals with the vision and determination to bring this new business model into reality.
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