Mexico Manufacturing Information

What Mexico needs to do to maximize its potential as an international manufacturing location: three structural reforms “If Mexico can summon the political will, it has the potential to become a global manufacturing location that is on par with South Korea by implementing three basic strategy changes.” The aforementioned is the view of an expert [...]

Karla Osorno EE Technologies, Inc. Electronics manufacturing service providers in Mexico and the U.S., earn their contracts based upon the quality of the manufactured end product that they deliver to their customers. If a project starts on the wrong foot, this will be reflected in the quality of the end product. The beginning of the [...]

Mexico is steeling for exponential growth as an aerospace industry leader – and everyone is paying attention, a field executive notes. Carlos Bello is executive director of Federación Mexicana de Industria Aerospacial, or FEMIA, Mexico’s equivalent to the U.S. Aerospace Industries Association. He has seen many changes in FEMIA’s four-year history and expects development to [...]

American manufacturing executives that are living in Mexico have no problem keeping track of what’s going back home. Internet sites, cable and satellite TV, inexpensive phone calls (or free, with VOIP services) keep the expatriate as up-to-the-moment as if they were in a Des Moines living room. The real challenge for American personnel in charge [...]

While manufacturing in Mexico is an attractive option for many American and other nations’ companies, it takes knowledge, focus and reliable manufacturing cost-model analysis to determine viability, one expert notes. Eduardo Saavedra is vice president of business development for The Offshore Group. Established in 1986, The Offshore Group has enabled executives in the automotive, aerospace, [...]

Increasingly, people in the world of commerce routinely mention information-technology, or IT development, “clusters” in Mexico but rarely do they define them. What they are referring to, at present, is this: The two thousand companies in 38 high-tech centers spread throughout the country that make up the IT Development system of “clústeres”. Promotion of these [...]

Every so often, a scholar offers a compendium of perspectives that, while not necessarily his or her own, provides a glimpse into a topic of management in the Mexican manufacturing workplace. Such is the case with Dr. Pramila Rao, who earned a bachelor’s of arts from Women’s Christian College; master’s degree from Grand Valley State [...]

One American company has seen its aerospace business soar by developing a sister location, or maquiladora, in Mexico under The Offshore Group’s Mexico Shelter Plan. “We had been trying to break into Mexico’s aerospace industry from Fridley, but we found a lot of our customers needed metal finishing services available to them in Mexico, given [...]

The Mexico manufacturing executive with all the cell phones? He’s no cell salesman. He’s just a guy saving a few pesos! That maquiladora plant manager with four cell phones on his desk, in addition to his landlines, knows something that a lot of people learn the hard way: it’s almost always cheaper in Mexico to [...]

Aerospace manufacturers in Mexico now have access to NADCAP certified metal finishing services.  From powerful fire jets, to fast cars, to tiny medical devices, they all have one thing in common, using delicate parts with difficult masking and high tolerances that requires specialty metal finishing. Metal finishing is used just about everywhere you look, in [...]