Far East manufacturing cost reduction by adjacent country production

The use by electronics multi-national companies of manufacturing bases in the newly industrialised economies of the Far East is under pressure from rising costs in these countries. The ways in which companies are responding to this pressure by coordinating operations at a number of sites in the Asia-Pacific region from Singapore is considered. The response of multinational companies to Singapore´s Growth Triangle concept is discussed, and typical operational configurations in response to both company and host country strategies are described