Michele Monico, Vice President R&D and Engineering, Flextronics at Electronics Day, Milan 2013

Michele Monico, Vice President R&D and Engineering talks about the global design offering from Flextronics and how the Milan Design Centre fits in with their other design services. Globally they have well over 2,000 design engineers from many disciplines and in many industries.

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hello i'm phillip States and I'm here at
quit in Milan Italy and I'm joined by
Matt Keller
from Flextronics thank you very much for
stopping by thanks for taking the time
have wanted to talk a little bit about
the whole
global design offering Flextronics hats
because I know it's very broad we have a
focus here in
in Milan with a very large design center
but it's going on worldwide tell me a
little bit about
how that how that works yes fits sizes
are
as I think that is as an EMS is one of
the largest
as a one of the largest design
organization in the world final
I think that globally today we are more
than 2,000 500 engineers design
engineers
we organized by business segments
particularly I am i responsible for a
one of the largest group that is
dedicated to profitability medical
devices
but the I mean we have %uh design
engineers that are focusing very
different era starting from consumer
electronics going to industrial
out the party ever a so it's
I mean for we have tried to call for all
the different that technology is above
the front that businesses that
are all basically containing get
electronics because this is our core
business right
and there were considered part of the
vertical integration for about the
global fixed on its business
meaning that the I mean as it is an
organization of today we will try to
engage our customer very horny
me there are life cycle in there because
I cycle for further development and of
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is a is to bring them up for the process
of designing brothers and bring them
into
production and their and those things
possible subtle
the cooking at all yeah to support a
light side yeah and grow them into the
glass case on
deploy the worldwide I'm you
specifically covering medical is
is medical a sector the
seems to be have a lot I've
a lot of creative energy lol marked
energy but perhaps not the engineering
and
and as a result is happy to outsource
design perhaps more than some of the
other sectors
yep it's lovin that designing something
that there will that help improve the
life of the
of the people I think that is very
exciting I think I'm very proud to be
honest it
love this of this organization I spent
all my career basically
life sciences and okay care also yes
you're right I think that that there is
a and
and and increase the motivation it's
like an hour design engineers of 32
design
product that will improve the line about
our patient Butler our
our partners a for sure creativity is so
one of the elements
at the result of innovation particularly
in this say decide to see us
around medical makeup typically it's a
it's a it's a it's a new day we chat
technologies are introduced
I are typically later I like the design
cycle so because today is a very
conservative market of three
the card you need to be very mature
before I'll entering this pace
all lot that is a lot of %uh freeze
could analysis
yeah i introduction of technologies in
like the medical space
but they can tell you that that these
get base going get down
difficulty all if you look at the pasta
there was a
more last 10 years 15 years the
difference between consumer
technologies and medical today I think
that that you get you you see
I think also because some of the devices
are around us
yeah you see that there is a lot of
synergies between coastal area
and and medical devices sauce too
conservative but the gap is a
is closing one here an interesting
america seems to
deploy quite a lot of different
manufacturing activities and design
activities
plastics pneumatics I'm
you know drug delivery a electro
mechanics
and course electronics displays those
kinda things as well
you have to bring together a lot I've a
lot of different functions in in the
design process
absolute yes that is a lot of system
integration
a lot of corporate engineering that
ito's there is also a lot of a
if I contamination in technologies and
industries its work today
what is on board on a medical devices
there are a lot of
I seemed of technologies that you can
find a novel by and for out the
articles at or and dust your product
a so yes I think that the
one of the challenging for like a is a
is a
is to make sure that when you for this
technology to a medical device
they are physically a say
a meeting their requirements damn sorry
a bttm safety
that is wonderful key requirement like
no-one market and make sure that that
they are functioning guess year as me
we are requiring expecting okay we talk
a bit about a.m.
kind of regionalization ratio in
proximity to
customers in terms of end-user but could
also in terms of design that must be
employees have a big facility here in
milan which
is fantastic if you're creative energy
hearing in Italy and you want to access
it
what about elsewhere how the people I'm
manage their relationship with
Flextronics globally
you're you're right I think that the
proximity
always a party going pro development
that's a plus because I spent a market
that the end is communication
its first execution anyway I mean air
being
to a global organization of global
company we FB update our
in our organization on the system in
order to be able to serve customers all
over the globe
I can tell you that phrase is far from
from just as I sent it again and that we
serve up
customers lesson of the day north Europe
in Asia
and tell me we created the ability to
transfer products from designing
might affect bringing Far East in Asia
Eastern Europe
saw that the network at the norse that
we created every little
at saffir different needs if a customer
needs
is very complex and it's really 10 or at
the exactly on down the specific
business need the
and the and desire like from from our
cost
so he's not 21 me way to bring
yeah but that Sean something Cortez on
some think it's really is really a
customized content or for a specific
pieces
as a customer yeah for sure a at the
a location that we have you and it's
it's very is very important because he's
the center
of the war dislike I can tell you that
our engineer so
of starting a very early in the morning
and I'll get with our factories in asia
and in Asia
right door that to make sure that when
we to do so I'm guessing prototyping for
executing after the introduction in Asia
things are going as expected on the
other side most of the customers are in
North America so we so you know if
anything does that we close and even in
the night that with meeting say
am course with them so i i think that
that mean that being gay
this essential part the fate of the
world it's a it's a for sure it's an
advantage
yeah a and also communication on the
ethical just today I for sure can out
a to connect physically people and
organizations
and I guess good ideas never sleep
you've got to be there 24/7 cracked
provide in those situations and you
leveraged kind if
video conferencing just those kinda
technologies to actually get
almost in the room with people when you
can of Pepsi yes we
what we have develop into not also
flying a that we will use a
together with our customers said to the
wall web course lol meetings
soviet while events particularly for his
last year I
I started a to eating initiative also to
is like it to deploy to beat our culture
across our customers to
the BF you've got the collagenase luv a
that is a is really a an open event in
which our engineer so are
feeling talking a to our customers a
couple hours of
presentation two more basic little
update them on what is going on in the
market in Houston the technologies
and then the service was a particularly
appreciated because they're
I mean in nineteen flexibly can I for
sure we can have a
out %uh visited yeah the around that
what's going on in the yeah fucking with
me for suppliers and customers
am and that's that's important because
you're giving them the visibility on
technology that's available and that
they're probably thinking oh yeah I can
design this
now I know that there's this available
things are those but that communication
is
yes hugely important in all directions
mcallen thank you very much for talking
to me
thanks for your time always a pleasure
was against thanks
thank you very much