Product costing masterclass: How EMS can retain margins & boost efficiency

Stop margin erosion: Mastering manufacturing & labor costing in the US EMS market

Join EMS market experts Sam Mason and Márton Teker for a 30-minute executive briefing on one of the most acute financial risks in US electronics manufacturing: uncontrolled labor costing in a volatile, margin-sensitive market.

This session reveals how leading EMS organizations are replacing fragile spreadsheets and outdated ERP costing forms with a factory-accurate costing engine that guarantees margins, accelerates quoting, and protects profitability.

What US EMS leaders will learn

1. Stabilize labor costing in an unstable labor market: How to model precise labor effort despite rising churn, skill shortages, inconsistent utilization, and increasing overhead recovery pressure.

2. Defensible, margin-positive pricing in a seller’s market: Why EMS providers have leverage – and how accurate, transparent costing helps you embed and defend stronger margins in every RFQ.

3. Quote in minutes, not days: How to eliminate the typical 3-7 day quoting bottleneck caused by spreadsheets, copy-paste workflows, and scattered data sources – turning slow guesswork into instant, data-driven costing.

4. Full transparency and version control: Why uncontrolled spreadsheet versions undermine strategic pricing – and how automated, auditable costing prevents quoting errors that erode profit.

5. Live 7-minute demonstration: See how Luminovo ingests complex BOM, PCB, and P&P data and calculates setup time, cycle time, operator effort, overhead, and unit cost in seconds – based on your factory’s real processes, not generic templates.

Why this matters right now

Labor costs are unstable: High turnover, training cycles, and utilization volatility make spreadsheets and static ERP costing models dangerously inaccurate.

Quoting errors are expensive: A single cycle-time mistake or outdated routing assumption can eliminate profitability on a high-volume contract – often unnoticed until it’s too late.

Slow quotes lose deals: OEMs in 2025 expect same-day responses. EMS providers quoting late lose margin and market share.

Leaders are moving to automated costing: US EMS innovators are shifting from manual tools to factory-accurate, scenario-based costing that reflects real machine behavior, operator constraints, and routing options.

What you will see in the demo

• Instant BOM ingestion: Full parsing of component data, technology classification, and quantity mapping.

• Accurate, factory-specific costing: SMT, THT, test, backend, and overhead – all calculated using a structured Factory Twin of your processes.

• Scenario simulations: Compare routings, batch sizes, and line setups side-by-side, with cycle times recalculated instantly.

• Margin guarantees: See how precise time modeling supports higher pricing, defensible negotiations, and fewer margin surprises.

Who should attend

• EMS CEOs, CFOs & COOs.

• Heads of Quoting, Engineering, and Operations.

• Program & Account Managers.

• Anyone responsible for revenue, pricing accuracy, or operational efficiency in US EMS organizations.

Secure your spot

Don’t miss this high-value session designed to help EMS leaders quote faster, price smarter, and retain more margin than their competitors.

Register now!