At the time, it made capillaries in Yokneam, Israel, and blades in Santa Clara, California. In the B case, which is now two years after establishing a new capillaries operation in a Suzhou industrial park, the exact same team is now moving K&S's dicing blade creation from Santa Clara, California, to Suzhou. All things taken into consideration, the capillary example was a victorious narrative of knowledge transfer between areas and two quite different populations.
The sights of the business now turned to enlarging dicing blade capacity. Unlike capillaries, however, all dicing blade operations would move to China. Given the success of the copy precise version for the capillary merchandise, the team wondered if it'd make sense to use the same strategy with the blade production. "
PUBLICATION DATE: August 30, 2010 PRODUCT #: UV5976-HCB-ENG
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