IBM to Offer Contract Manufacturing

ARMONK, NYIBM has created a new business unit to sell manufacturing services to original equipment manufacturers. Its range of offerings will include design, test, certification, prototyping and manufacturing for chips, cards, boards and systems.

"We estimate the opportunity for providing these enhanced services could grow to nearly $6 billion within the next 5 years," says Patrick Toole, general manager of the new division. "For the first time, we have a single organization dedicated to providing comprehensive design services to our customers."

Original equipment manufacturers will be able to hire IBM to do their chip design, component fabrication, card and board assembly and the complete outsourcing of all aspects of design and manufacturing of subsystems and systems.

The division is part of IBM’s Technology Group and will draw its expertise from existing IBM organizations.

IBM initially will concentrate its design services in the communications and consumer sectors of the information technology industry and will then expand into the storage system, server, automotive, medical, defense and aerospace industries.

The ASSEMBLY Show South

ASSEMBLY is thrilled to return to the Music City Center in Nashville, TN for The ASSEMBLY Show SOUTH on May 1-2, 2024. This is a booming time for manufacturing and the U.S. South is right in the heart of the action. According to ASSEMBLY’s most recent annual capital spending survey, the South is projected to account for 31 percent of total spending this year, marking the fifth straight year this region has accounted for at least 30 percent of capital spending in the U.S.

In this session, manufacturers will learn how Quality function deployment (QFD) can transform consumers’ qualitative demands into quantitative parameters that will shape the design of their product and, ultimately, their manufacturing process.

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