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spected product brands. For example, Candy Chung, Senior Business Unit Manager at Jabil Guangzhou, found herself in the midst of a logisti- cal dilemma when a customer faced a possible quality issue with a fundamental circuit-board part during the Chinese New Year Holiday. As she relates her solution for that customer: “When I saw the request in the morning, I began thinking of all the methods that could expedite the shipment. I checked that DHL was still working in Hong Kong even though it was a holiday. I decided to hand- carry the boards from China to Hong Kong by my- self as it was the fastest way.” In another example, a Jabil business leader selflessly shared a sales lead because he recognized that his colleague had broader knowledge and more experience in the re- gion. When individuals think beyond themselves and their own needs, the company and its cus- tomers benefit.
Innovation. Vision. Inspiration. Technology standards are vital
to manufacturing success. Dan Ga - mota, Jabil’s Director of Advanced Technology, is very much involved with electronic technology and help- ing to shape innovation within the technology industry through the es- tablishment of industry standards. He is currently leading IPC stan- dards subcommittees focused on pub- lishing standards in support of high- volume electronic manufacturing. His team has an important role: to help cost-effectively transition print- ed and flexible electronics-circuit re- search projects into commercial high- volume products for use in medical, automotive, aerospace, industrial, and energy markets. Dan’s team of experts evaluate
and set standards on materials and processes for innovations like flexible glass and electrically functional, visu- ally appealing electronic housings. These are housings durable enough to endure current and future flexible and printed electronics manufacturing processes as well as day-to-day con- sumer use. The team sets guidelines and standards for materials, process- es, and reliability performance that will be applied to manufacturing elec- tronic devices going forward. Unconventional approaches to in-
dustry challenges frequently lead to innovation, especially when teams are created having members with nontra- ditional roles. Inspired by an entrepre- neurial bent, Jabil’s global supply chain team, which had no formal IT training, created a robust supply chain business intelligence tool unlike any- thing in the industry. Based on deter- ministic and stochastic sensitivity analysis, the tool can determine such parameters as the tipping point at which a solution is no longer the lowest cost solution. Such innovative model- ing tools rely on familiar, industry- standard inputs and built-in optimiza- tion to allow Jabil and its customers to quickly see the results when input pa- rameters are changed. These unconventional approaches
included hiring business people with programming skills rather than pro- grammers to build business software tools. The programming team doesn’t operate from a special programmers’ area or “bullpen,” but works next to the people who use the software tools so that end-users have direct input on the features and functions included in the tools. The programming team focuses squarely on efficiency; all team mem- bers receive Lean training. Technology advances have no
value to consumers unless electronic manufacturers can find ways to make
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www.us-tech.com What Does It Take to Build the Future? Nabel Ghalib, Jabil Manufacturing
Engineer, demonstrates a novel automation process he invented for assembling flexible electronics-based interfaces.
those advances affordable. It is simple enough to pic- ture a much larger number of electronic devices con- nected to the Internet through tiny embedded sen- sors. Built into cars, homes cellular phones, even clothing, these sensors can provide intelligence, service, and convenience by detecting and remem- bering habits. Such sensors can enable medical and biological advances and new human-machine inter- faces to create smart electronic grids to the benefit of mankind. But such technologies are still largely in research laboratories today. They have no value to consumers unless they can be produced cost-effec- tively by means of effective manufacturing and fab- rication processes. That is Jabil’s place in helping to build such a future: to work with some of the world’s leading research facilities to apply manufacturing capabilities to new technologies. Inspired by the way an insect’s vision works,
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