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Electron Microscope Manufacturer Takes Advantage of Global Operations to Cut Costs, Improve Productivity and Speed Time-to-Market
Overview Headquartered in Hillsboro, Oregon, electron microscope manufacturer, FEI, has approximately 1,600 employees worldwide, with additional development and manufacturing operations located in Peabody, Massachusetts; Sunnyvale, California; Eindhoven, The Netherlands; and Brno, Czech Republic. The company wanted to integrate four factories to profit from different skill sets and product portfolios to improve communication between sites to shrink time-to-market. FEI initiated the PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) solution on the development of a product called CLM-3DDualBeam. The advantages of the new system were apparent from the start and they were "Huge,".
| Publisher | Siemens | File Format | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Date Published | March 2006 | ||
| Format | Case Studies | ||
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