Unit cost vs total cost in contract electronics manufacturing

When decisions need to be made regarding outsourcing one or more of your products to an electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider, do you fully consider the wider financial implications? According to "The UK EMS Industry Report 2013 - 2018", carried out by Reed Electronics Research, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) should, rationally, consider the "full cost over the lifetime of the product" when creating their cost analysis. However, this is often not the case as many OEM buyers are focusing almost exclusively on the "visible" unit cost and disregarding the other, very real, cost elements.

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