Insurance and EMS, there’s a similar story
Contract manufacturers have a unique challenge: we are expected to provide a fixed fee bid on building a product, even though we might not...
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Need for Speed is Not Only in Production
Could anyone have imagined the degree to which our world has become automated? From smartphones to fully automated data centers, we’ve...
5 Things I learned in 5 Years of CalcuQuote
Everyone has their own version of how major life events occurred. When someone asks me and my wife how long we’ve been together, we never...
7 Ways to Improve Your Cost Model
The best place to start when discussing ways to improve your cost model is establishing a definition of what is a cost model in the...
What’s the secret to an accurate labor model?
At CalcuQuote, we have worked with more than 100 Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) companies across North America and Europe to...
Sneak Peek into CalcuQuote’s Product Team
Since we started CalcuQuote, we’ve been doing at least monthly releases packed with new features. Here’s a peek at how our product team...
How is CalcuQuote’s customer support so good?
One of our greatest strengths as a company is our ability to delight customers. On a daily basis, customers go out of their way to pay us...
Should you be using Value-Based Pricing?
When most people think of increasing profits, they immediately think of either increasing sales volume (“Sell more PCBAs!”) or cutting...
4 Ways CMs Address a Messy Bill of Material
It happens to Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) companies all the time. A new customer you’ve chased for a year finally gives you...
5 Reasons for Why EMS Companies Need to Stop Using Excel for Quoting
We meet EMS companies every day who tell us about the creative ways they’ve used Excel to organize their business processes. One of the...