Mexico Manufacturing Information

Incertec is an Offshore Group client company with operations in Fridley, Minnesota and Empalme, Sonora.  The company specializes in highly-engineered custom plating solutions for industries and products where precision, knowledge and experience matter. Incertec operates under The Offshore Group’s Mexico Shelter Plan.

Learn how The Offshore Groups enables manufacturers in Mexico to increase their bottom-line by initiating and maintaining low-cost manufacturing centers under its Mexico Shelter Plan.

Charlie Barnhart & Associates is a  firm that offers strategic consulting, research and training programs targeted at addressing issues at the intersection of the electronics OEM and its outsourced manufacturing providers.   The firm has recently published a report entitled China v. Mexico: An Objective Comparison for Midmarket Electronics OEMs. Over the next several weeks, The [...]

The West Mexico State of Sonora is the source of 18.4% the aerospace parts manufactured in the country. The state is home to one of the fastest growing aerospace industry clusters in the Mexican Republic, is the source of $110 million export dollars in annual revenue and has created more than eight thousand private sector [...]

Headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, Paradigm Precision is a leading manufacturer of complex machined components for the aerospace, land based power generation and marine markets. Paradigm Precision was founded in 2007 with the acquisitions of Smith West, Inc. with locations in Arizona and Guaymas, Mexico, Palmer Manufacturing Co. based in Massachusetts, and Eurocast, Inc. located in [...]

Mexico, like many countries, has a baseline legal benefits regime that is often codified in national labor law.  A basic overview of legally prescribed benefits in the Mexican workplace includes: Vacation time – Under Mexican labor law workers that have one year of permanence with the company for whom they render services are eligible to [...]

According to Mexican labor law, the legal length of the Mexican work week depends upon the shift on which an employee renders service.  The number of hours attached to each shift is spread over a six day work week that runs from Monday until Saturday. The Mexican work day is divided into three shifts: Day [...]

By Mike Weber President and CEO Powerbrace, Inc. Kenosha, Wisconsin Communication is like cocaine.  It’s one of those attention-getting metaphors I’ve developed over the years as a multi-site manager.  Communication is to an organization what cocaine is to the drug user.  No matter how much they get, it never seems to be enough.  Unlike cocaine, [...]