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China electrical manufacturing services industry value stream mapping collaboration

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The paper analyzes the Electrical Manufacturing Services (EMS) industry’s current status in China, introduces a value stream mapping (VSM) collaboration tool which brings solid working process with agile information flow, and builds a theoretical foundation with a new management concept for China EMS to promote its integrated core competencies and to increase the market returns. VSM collaboration tools can be used across the electronics industry and other industries; it provides EMS the strategic advantages of a flexible, reactive system that agilely adapts to customers’ real-time needs, and builds EMS high profile with core competencies of being a strategic world-class performer.

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  1. Synthia Xin Shen

    Present address: Suzhou Industrial Park, Rm#302, Unit 68, Orchard Manors, JiangSu, 215021, P. R. China

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  1. School of Economics & Management, Tongji University, Shanghai, P.R. China

    Synthia Xin Shen & Chuan Feng Han

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Shen, S.X., Han, C.F. China electrical manufacturing services industry value stream mapping collaboration. Int J Flex Manuf Syst 18, 285–303 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10696-007-9016-6

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