Solectron
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| Industry | Electronics Manufacturing Services, product design and after sales services |
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| Fate | Purchased by Flextronics |
| Successor | Flex |
| Founded | 1977 |
| Defunct | 2007 |
| Headquarters |
Milpitas, California United States |
| Products | Consumer Electronics, Routers, Switches, TVs |
| Revenue | $ 10.56 billion USD (2006) |
| Website | [1] |
Solectron Corporation was a global electronics manufacturing company for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). It was the first electronics manufacturing services (EMS) industry in 1977. Solectron's first customer designed and distributed an electronic controller for solar energy equipment. The name "Solectron" was a portmanteau of the words "solar" and "electronics". The company was acquired by Flex on October 15, 2007.
Solectron was established in 1977 to provide outsourced manufacturing services to third parties.It was a major manufacturer, but you would have not found its name on any products.Solectron founder Roy Kusumoto saw a growing number of electronics companies in California's Silicon Valley. There was a need to provide printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) services, handling the manufacturing overflow from OEMs. Solectron aimed to provide high-tech companies the ability for their products to be produced and delivered more quickly and efficiently than their competition, and believed that their customers needed a greater level of service for assembly and manufacture of printed circuit boards,celluler phones, along the entire product supply chain.
In 1998, Solectron acquired the computer hardware manufacturing assets of NCR Corporation.
Winston H. Chen, Ph.D. (Harvard) purchased Solectron in 1978, a year after he had left IBM to train his younger family members to run his family construction company in Taiwan after his father's passing. His operational strategy, philosophy, and culture allowed it to grow into the largest U.S. and international Electronic Manufacturing Services (EMS) company. He was CEO and Chairman of the Board until Koichi (Ko) Nishimura, Ph.D., (also from IBM) became Chairman of the board, president and CEO from 1988 until January 2003, during which time Solectron grew from a regional entity into one of the world's largest EMS companies. Solectron won the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in 1997 and in 1991, after Nishimura worked to instill the certification criteria into the company's corporate culture and strategy. Solectron was the first company to win the Baldrige Award in the manufacturing category twice in the program's history.
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