Outsourcing provides new business opportunities

Electronics outsourcing and manufacturing specialist Exception is investing heavily in new products and services for its electronics offshore solutions (EOS) division in Malaysia.

Exception is investing heavily in new products and services for its electronics offshore solutions (EOS) division in Malaysia.

The UK-based company is seeing increased customer demand for offshore volume production of other products, according to Chief Executive Craig Wright.

Products other than PCBs represented 7.5% of the company's imports last year, with a value of US $4m.

Wright predicts that the figure will reach US $10m in 2008, demonstrating the increasingly versatile approach that OEMs are looking for from their outsourced providers such as Exception.

Craig Wright said: "As an established supplier with a long manufacturing history in the region, Exception is ideally placed to assist its customers with the sourcing and production of complementary products".

"This co-ordinated approach allows our customers to benefit from a number of efficiencies and enables them to consolidate the production of PCBs and other components into the hands of a single, trusted supplier".

"This service is one that we currently provide to our clients in the automotive, consumer electronics and medical sectors".

"However, as techniques become more sophisticated, it is likely to be extended to more specialist markets, such as the aerospace, exploration and defence sectors".

"In today's marketplace, tier one OEMs are looking towards tier two contract manufacturers to help them deliver on their promises".

"As one of Europe's foremost outsourced electronics manufacturers, we have seen a huge increase in demand over the last 12 months for nonPCB products from our offshore outsourcing arm and predict that this trend of consolidation will become a key area of differentiation for suppliers such as Exception".

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