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be a high level of involvement with engineer-
ing and procurement to make sure all of the
requirements are understood for those con-
tracts,” says Sidhu when asked if there were
any challenges faced in the market. “There are
some challenges with being able to help our
clients improve the value in their design and
sometimes they’re not able to take that on be-
cause of the pressure they have to be able to
fulfill the demand of their market. They don’t
have any room to schedule in a design revi-
sion, even if it was to bring in greater value to
the part, they simply don’t have it within their
time constraints. That requires a keen inter-
est in being able to plan with clarity so that
we can see those gaps early, communicate to
our customers and put an action plan together
that ensures we are all on the same page in
executing our deliverables.”
East Metal is proud to take on complete inte-
grated assemblies, specifically with being able
to reduce significant cost in the medical in-
strumentation field with clients from different
life science groups. “Consolidating the many
facets of purchasing and scheduling responsi-
bilities into one supplier not only reduces the
supply base, but also reduces working capital
in a number of ways. This becomes a major
advantage to partnering with an integrated
