A manufacturer of analytical instruments uses benchmarking and smart design to lower the total cost of ownership of its products.

Assembling high-reliability products starts with design.

High-tech entertainment electronics—from diminutive MP3 players to large LED screens—are what Blusens Global Corp. manufactures on its new automated assembly line. 

MANCHESTER, NH—Contract manufacturer SemiGen Inc. has published a white paper, “The Advantages of Outsourcing Your RF/Microwave Assembly to an Onshore Contractor.”

LEWISTON, ID— Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, a manufacturer of equipment for the electric power industry, is doubling the size of its assembly plant here.

The demise of telecom giant Nortel may have been caused by its contract manufacturer, Huawei.

SOLON, OH—Contract manufacturer Valtronic has moved into a new, 60,000-square-foot assembly plant here.

YANTAI, China—Contract manufacturer Foxconn has admitted that an in-house investigation discovered children as young as 14 years old working at its assembly plant here.

BEIJING, China—A Foxconn executive blamed the shortage of the iPhone 5 on the device’s complicated design, calling the phone “the most difficult device that we have ever assembled.”