Design Engineering or Factory Capability? Building Laptop Contract Manufacturing in Taiwan

Design Engineering or Factory Capability? Building Laptop Contract Manufacturing in Taiwan

This article explores how Taiwanese laptop contract manufacturers established the foundation of their businesses between the late 1980s and mid-1990s. It casts doubt on the traditional view of a linear progression from manufacturing to design capability in Asia. By examining the three earliest lapto...

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Main Author: Lin, Ling-Fei
Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2017
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Taiwan's contract manufacturers
Laptop production
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/83493
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/42603
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-834932020-03-07T12:10:37Z Design Engineering or Factory Capability? Building Laptop Contract Manufacturing in Taiwan Lin, Ling-Fei School of Humanities and Social Sciences Taiwan's contract manufacturers Laptop production This article explores how Taiwanese laptop contract manufacturers established the foundation of their businesses between the late 1980s and mid-1990s. It casts doubt on the traditional view of a linear progression from manufacturing to design capability in Asia. By examining the three earliest laptop projects in Taiwan, however, this author shows that manufacturing was not necessarily simpler than design and how important these producers' design engineering capabilities were to attracting customers and establishing a solid foundation for their future development. Accepted version 2017-06-06T09:14:09Z 2019-12-06T15:24:12Z 2017-06-06T09:14:09Z 2019-12-06T15:24:12Z 2016 Journal Article Lin, L.-F. (2016). Design Engineering or Factory Capability? Building Laptop Contract Manufacturing in Taiwan. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 38(2), 22-39. 1058-6180 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/83493 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/42603 10.1109/MAHC.2015.73 en IEEE Annals of the History of Computing © 2016 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works. The published version is available at: [http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MAHC.2015.73]. 18 p. application/pdf
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topic Taiwan's contract manufacturers
Laptop production
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Laptop production
Lin, Ling-Fei
Design Engineering or Factory Capability? Building Laptop Contract Manufacturing in Taiwan
description This article explores how Taiwanese laptop contract manufacturers established the foundation of their businesses between the late 1980s and mid-1990s. It casts doubt on the traditional view of a linear progression from manufacturing to design capability in Asia. By examining the three earliest laptop projects in Taiwan, however, this author shows that manufacturing was not necessarily simpler than design and how important these producers' design engineering capabilities were to attracting customers and establishing a solid foundation for their future development.
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title_short Design Engineering or Factory Capability? Building Laptop Contract Manufacturing in Taiwan
title_full Design Engineering or Factory Capability? Building Laptop Contract Manufacturing in Taiwan
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title_full_unstemmed Design Engineering or Factory Capability? Building Laptop Contract Manufacturing in Taiwan
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