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STRATEGIC
ADVANTAGE COMES FROM STRONG EMPHASIS ON MANUFACTURING SCIENCE
In some industries, manufacturing
is a generic function best left to outsourcing. But for ST, well-managed
manufacturing provides essential competitive advantages in costs and time-to-
market. STRENGTH FROM SPEED. A breakthrough in
technology is only as valuable as the competitive advantage that it can deliver
for our partners in the marketplace at exactly the time they need it. By
tightly coupling our R&D, engineering and high-volume manufacturing
activities, we ensure that our partners can exploit the best technology at the
earliest possible time, giving them the competitive edge that allows us, in
turn, to ride their success. TODAY AND TOMORROW.
We have made concurrent engineering a standard process, simul-taneously
developing new processes and their supporting cell libraries and design tools
so that products can be designed correctly right from the start. Because our
R&D is so closely tied to manufacturing issues, our engineers can foresee
and avoid potential implementation problems. OPPORTUNITIES FROM CYCLES. We do all we can to keep our
people with us through-out the industry's up-cycles and down-cycles because we
know that there is no substitute for unique expertise. Engineering excellence
and lowest-cost production enable us to offer our customers the best mix of
price, performance and time-to-market, whatever the market conditions. Our
customers value this because it gives them an edge in transitional times, which
in turn gives us an edge at every point in the cycle. |
