MPO’s Sounding Board 2018

As a member of Medical Product Outsourcing’s Editorial Board, I share my views on 2018 and the year ahead in this article.

Is It Time to Move?

PMCI’s December 2018 article in Circuits Assembly looks at regionalization strategy:

As I write this, a trade deal with China that will eliminate the tariffs appears to be in development, but China is continuing to talk tough. The tariffs are causing significant pain to manufacturers in both the US and China, so I suspect some type of deal will happen eventually. In the meantime, the tariffs motivated many companies to look hard at the geographies involved in their outsourcing strategy. Some OEMs have moved or are in the process of moving some of their business, and a much larger number are thinking about it. I think it is important to carefully weigh the pros and cons. Read the full article here.