SigmaPoint is poised to reinvigorate electronics manufacturing in North America . The Canadian provider of electronics manufacturing services ( EMS ) has refined its lean manufacturing practices over a decade , and is now on a journey to a truly disruptive supply chain solution

W ith increasing unease over the imposition of tariffs on goods and materials imported into the USA , manufacturers and designers are concentrating their attention on the likely effect of ever escalating disincentives to the offshoring model . There are plenty of other reasons to look anew at the advantages of bringing as much as possible of the value chain back , among them the reducing labor cost advantages and , as innovation takes a front seat , the need to protect and control IP . It ’ s against this background that the SigmaPoint Technologies has launched a five-year project that will seriously disrupt the traditional end-to-end supply chain and lead the electronics industry toward a much more highly automated model .