A little bit of updated information I saw on DIIG'S homepage.
a spotlight on...Dovatron International
In 1993 Dovatron International joined the burgeoning contract
electronics manufacturing (CEM) industry as an independent public
company. The risks and challenges faced during those early days
were formidable. Defining a strategy, acquiring and developing
worldwide locations, winning major international accounts,
implementing effective business systems, and developing world-class
manufacturing operations were all key to Dovatron's success in the
highly competitive outsourcing industry. Today we are not only
recognized as a top-tier, world-class CEM, but have taken a
leadership position in "redefining outsourcing". We are truly regarded
as a technology leader based upon our ability to leverage the
combined technological resources of the DII Group, tap into the
unique talents and experience of our innovative people, and provide
our customers with engineering and manufacturing opportunities on a
global scale.
The CEM industry has grown more than 25% per year since the
early `90s, and this breakneck growth is forecasted to continue. This
year the CEM industry will be approximately $90 billion. By the year
2001, it is predicted to be nearly $180 billion. This continued
dramatic growth will be fueled by increased value-added services
offered by the CEM industry itself and the ongoing divestiture by
original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of internal manufacturing.
Growth in the electronics industry is being fueled by continual
advances in technology and as consumer demand industries such as
computing, networking, and telecommunications are introducing new,
more feature-rich products at a record pace with shorter life cycles.
The CEM industry will continue to enjoy an ever-increasing share of
the total electronics industry and, in addition, our customers - the
major OEMs will continue the trend to outsource more of their
manufacturing requirements. They have chosen to concentrate on
their own core competencies of product development and marketing,
obtaining their manufacturing solutions from companies like ours,
whose sole mission is excellence in manufacturing. In this way, OEMs
free up internal resources and redirect them - focusing on their own
competencies. Dovatron's service-oriented organization focuses on
providing our customers with faster time to market for their products,
the benefit of the latest manufacturing technologies, better return on
investment (ROI), and product cost advantages afforded them by our
volume purchase agreements and our ability to source material
globally and deliver product regionally.
This year, Dovatron will again enjoy a successful growth rate,
outpacing the industry average. We have more than 4,000 employees
worldwide in our nine factories located in Europe, Asia, and North
America. They are located strategically to provide our customers
with point-of-use manufacturing. Recent facility extensions were
added in Puebla and Guadalajara, Mexico; Cork, Ireland; a new
facility was opened in Southern California; and we opened a
backpanel operation in Texas. These facility expansions, together
with the installation of several new high-speed SMT lines in other
Dovatron sites, will help us meet the constantly increasing production
demand from our customers. The latest advanced manufacturing
technologies, such as ball grid array (BGA), are being offered by
almost all of our facilities.
Implementation of a fully integrated business system (4th Shift), a
computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM) package (Unicam), and
the Corporate Sales Force Automation System will provide
Dovatron with the latest communications capability not just internally,
but with customers and suppliers. It will ensure increased factory
efficiencies and provide a vehicle for collection, transfer, and
distribution of technical data to and from the factory floor and
between Dovatron sites.
Dovatron's new product introduction program, or "Speed to
Market", leverages the technologies and services of the other DII
Group companies and provides Dovatron's customers with a unique
set of capabilities that differentiate us from the rest of the outsourcing
industry. We will continue to provide our customers with one-stop
shopping for design, semiconductor solutions, interconnect printed
circuits, procurement, and assembly services required to bring new
products to market with unparalleled speed.
Our "Redefining Outsourcing" program is being launched widely this
year throughout Dovatron and the entire DII Group. This new
program seeks to introduce our unique product presentations. Those
who take advantage of this new dimension in outsourcing, which is
unique to the DII companies, will benefit directly from higher return
on investment, increased market share and profits, and lower overall
product introduction costs. This effort is sure to further differentiate
Dovatron from our competitors and will ensure the continued growth,
success, and prominence we have achieved in the CFM industry.
The next few years will see continued technological advances,
continued growth in the electronics industry, and the continued trend
of OEMs to outsource. By all accounts, contract electronics
manufacturing will become even more embedded in the fabric of the
electronics industry as a whole. As we have redefined outsourcing, so
will we continue to meet our customers' demands for new and
innovative services AND lead the way by creating new opportunities
for increased flexibility, lower overall product costs, and
manufacturing capabilities in new regions of the world. Dovatron
International will surely continue it's reputation of technological
leadership, staffed by the finest team of employees in the industry.
The DII Group Design Hub Services
The essence of formulating competitive strategy is relating a company
to its environment ... the best strategy for a given firm is ultimately a
unique construction reflecting its particular circumstances. Since its
spin-off in March `93 from Dover Corp., Dovatron International has
pulled together a diverse group of operations that supports its core
business of systems assembly and distribution. In January 1996,
Dovatron International changed its name to the DII Group and
continued its strategic acquisitions, making it one of the most
broad-based service suppliers to the electronics industry. Through
this series of strategic acquisitions, the DII Group has acquired a
complete chain of technology companies aimed at servicing the
complete product development cycle.
For the DII Group, these technological acquisitions are part of a
Linked Marketing Strategy. The Linked Marketing Strategy is based
upon each of the companies within the DII Group utilizing their
expertise and services to provide a greater response to the customer
than the customer would receive if he had sought those services
independently. Currently, the DII Group is made up of the following
businesses:
Dovatron - Systems assembly and distribution
DII Interconnect Systems - Backpanel fabrication and
assembly
Multek - Complex high-performance printed circuit board
fabrication
Design Solutions, Inc. (DSI) - Printed circuit board layout
design
Orbit Semiconductor - Quick-turn, customer-specific ASICs
Process Technology Group - made up of TTI Testron
(In-circuit test and functional test equipment), IRI (PC board
stencils and tooling), and Cencorp (Depaneling equipment).
The DII Group Linked Marketing strategy leverages the capability of
the Group's technology companies to bring time-to-market and
product-cost gains. This Linked Marketing strategy is applied in a
very practical way through the DII Group Design Hub. The Design
Hub allows the customer to focus on its core competencies, while the
DII Group manages the product development cycle. Activities are
centrally coordinated, with many activities happening in parallel. So
not only does the customer benefit from the capabilities of the DII
Group technology companies, but these capabilities are also
harnessed together. This summing of capabilities is the DII Group
Design Hub.
Throughout each of these stages, the various companies within the
DII Group work together early into the design phase. In doing this,
they not only eliminate the need to re-spin the design to match the
technical requirement of their process, but they also shorten the
product development cycle through their coordinated and parallel
activities. The art of removing the set-up delay between one process
step and another is the key to maintaining the tight schedules that are
demanded in this business. DII is well positioned to achieve this due
to the company's existing framework of shared activities across the
group of companies.
The Design Hub principle, in which DII companies coordinate their
product design and manufacturing services, is built around the Linked
Marketing Strategy where the strengths of each of the companies are
leveraged to provide the customer with additional value. The
coordination and integration of all activities between these various
technology businesses can offer more to our customers than if the
customers had to interface with each of these companies individually.
The interaction and expert focus that each of the individual businesses
within the group applies to specific projects is the key to
implementation. It will yield a time-to-market reduction that could not
be achieved by the customer coordinating these activities itself.
The DII Group's Linked Marketing strategy provides the electronics
industry with a "Total Service Solution". By focusing on the vertical
integration of technology companies, speed-to-market reduction
becomes a real differentiator. The DII Group will continue to expand
the breadth and depth of the Group's products and services, further
enhancing the `Total Solution' concept.
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