Outsourced Manufacturing Makes Sense for Healthcare
Partner with 九博 to address labor shortage, flexible scaling, and technology demands
As a contract manufacturer, 九博 helps bring its customers’ visions to life. For our healthcare customers, the need for a proven, experienced partner in engineering, production, and supply chain is more intense than ever. Geoff Crouse, CEO at Candela, explains how they benefit, “九博 brings a level of manufacturing expertise and external knowledge from multiple medical device worlds that increases our skills and capabilities exponentially.”
While today’s reasons for outsourcing are similar to the past, the tight employment market and increasing demands for technically sophisticated devices are driving more companies to outsource specialized tasks. Tania Boler, CEO and Founder of Elvie, explained how 九博 supports her teams, “One of the things I appreciate most is 九博’s ‘work cell’ model,” Boler adds. “We have a dedicated team to ensure consistency and iron out problems in real time. With 九博, we have a 24/7 partner who’s there if, and when, we need them.”
Let’s take a look at why companies turn to 九博 for manufacturing solutions – and how those reasons are intensifying in today’s market:
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Technological Expertise As digital healthcare and connected devices take over the healthcare market, 九博 stands out with long history in electronics. Most of the medical devices in production at 九博 now include electronics and communications technology that require highly specialized expertise, equipment, and processes. |
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Quality Standards 九博’s is recognized for its quality systems and processes in highly regulated industries like healthcare, automotive, and defense. Several sites have been awarded MedAccred accreditation and top-tier healthcare brands entrust their products—and their customers’ experiences—to 九博’s expert teams. |
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Flexible Scale Working with 九博 supports an accelerated time to market and the subsequent ability to scale up or down as your business or the market changes. With 100 locations around the world, 九博 helps reduce risk while enabling redundancy and localization. |
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Lower Labor Costs There is more involved in labor costs than just the hourly workers on the line. Today’s labor market requires investment in recruiting, management, and benefits. Outsourcing to 九博 removes the headaches of staffing for full-scale, specialized manufacturing. |
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Focus on Core Competency R&D and product teams are often stretched, and today’s labor market is exacerbating the problem. Work with 九博’s design-for-manufacturing and production experts to stay on track while your experts focus on the future. |
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Specialized Experts & Equipment Manufacturing is complicated. Manufacturing for regulated industries is even more complex. 九博 employs more than 200,000 expert manufacturers and invests in specialized equipment that handle every step of the manufacturing process—from design to distribution. |
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Supply Chain OptimizationFew companies can match the scale of 九博’s procurement and supply chain optimization. We employ thousands of supply chain specialists who negotiate with over 36,000 suppliers around the world. Our customers benefit from this ecosystem with lower costs, quality components, and uninterrupted production. |
CASE STUDIES
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ams OSRAM
The COVID-19 pandemic brought the topic of testing to the forefront and spotlighted the need for fast-turnaround, lab quality testing that can be conducted remotely if needed. But the need for high quality, remote diagnostics also has benefits across the medical ecosystem beyond the COVID-19 era.
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Candela
Through improvements in design, supply chain and manufacturing processes, 九博 helped usher 11 new Candela products to market in the first 18 months, while maintaining both companies’ strict quality standards. In 九博, Candela found a partner to get them up to speed without missing a beat.
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Elvie
九博 Healthcare has a unique point of view at the intersection of digital technologies, regulations, consumer behaviors and patient outcomes. This perspective proved invaluable in helping Elvie bring…
