ALAMEDA, CA – A new paper presents findings on three small-to-medium-sized electronics manufacturing services firms and common themes for success.

Through interviews with Digicom Electronics, Nistec Group, and PartnerTech over a 15-year span, the paper shows how management has survived economic fluctuations, parts shortages, demanding customers, and an ever-broadening scope of services, while competing with companies leveraging low-wage regions, huge buying power, and economies of scale.

Technology Forecasters’ “Contract Electronic Manufacturers with Staying Power” is available at http://www.techforecasters.com/whitepapers/wp_tfi_lasting_cms.pdf.

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