SMART Group European Conference Old Ship Hotel Brighton, England
Special Workshop SW3
CONTRACT MANUFACTURING CHALLENGES: A discussion

Wednesday 13 November
17.00h

Brian McKandie 
Hewlett Packard Espanola, Barcelona

Background
Contract manufacturing is a huge ($12B) activity, projected to grow at 20-40%
pa.  Is your company exploring this option?

Format
A presentation will be made from a USER's point of view, covering the strategic
options in selection of CM partners: including technology, cost and geographic
location.
This will provide the basis for open discussion on future challenges and the
best way the OEM/CM partnership can meet them.

Who Should Attend
OEMs, process & test equipment providers, consumable providers and the Contract
Manufacturers themselves.

Facilitator
Brian McKandie is a procurement specialist with Hewlett Packard, responsible for
establishing and managing relations with contract manufacturing partners.
Hewlett Packard is a major user of contract manufacturing services worldwide.

Special Workshop SW2
USING THE INTERNET TO YOUR ADVANTAGE

Wednesday 13 November
17.00h

Paul Barlow
Vertical Marketing, Wimbourne

Objectives
Electronic networking can be of real benefit to the bottom line of your company:
for marketing, for benefitting from others' experiences to solve your technical
problems, for recruiting staff, for keeping abreast of technical and business
issues. It is both inexpensive and cost effective.
This workshop will show you how to get started; how  easy it is.  You will be
introduced to many of the opportunities that are open to you.  
There will be practical demonstrations and an opportunity for you to try it for
yourself.  Details will be given of Bulletin Boards and pages on the WWW
specifically for electronics manufacturing.

Who Should Attend
Everyone who wants to be part of a company operating in the 21st Century.

Instructor
Vertical Marketing is one of the UK's leading exponents of helping companies
benefit from the electronic networking.  It has special expertise in
appreciating the opportunities for the electronics manufacturing sector. 


SW2 and SW3 will each have the benefit of a FREE BAR.

Contact Tony Gordon at the SMART Group office Tel (44) 01494 465217 Fax (44)
01494 473975
Email: [log in to unmask]
Internet Home Page: Http://www.smtuk.demon.co.uk



Bob Willis
Process Engineering Consultant
Electronic Presentation Services
2 Fourth Avenue, Chelmsford, Essex CM1 4HA. England.
Tel: (44) 01245 351502
Fax: (44) 01245 496123
Home Page: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Bwillis
Email: [log in to unmask]


***************************************************************************
* TechNet mail list is provided as a service by IPC using SmartList v3.05 *
***************************************************************************
* To unsubscribe from this list at any time, send a message to:           *
* [log in to unmask] with <subject: unsubscribe> and no text.        *
***************************************************************************