Edge Trends Recap: “OnShoring – Made in San Diego”

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Article By Jim Wilk

On 2/5/2013, the UCSD held another well attended Edgetrends.  The topic was OnShoring, and the owner of the company, Ted Fogliani, CEO of Outsource Manufacturing, did an excellent job describing why you should consider to do your manufacturing in San Diego.  Currently he has 15-16 good customers, and has capacity for more.   He has clients in five major categories (Life Sciences, Medical, Military, Industrial, and Communications).  His company was first started in Newport beach, now in San Diego and is ISO-9100 certified.

Ted went on to compare the price difference between manufacturing in China, Mexico and at his company “Outsource Manufacturing – Made in San Diego.  He did not hesitate to share his accounting with us and to demonstrate that his prices are competitive with foreign countires when a job has about $100 in material and about 15 minutes of assembly time.  He showed several different examples and the numbers all made sense, when you take into account shipping costs, returns, customs, and having to send staff oversees to monitor or solve problems. From this we understood why he his preference is to build mid-priced products.

Ted went on to discuss pitfalls that his clients had before coming to him when they outsourced to both Mexico or China.  He gave one example of people that let their injection molding supplier also be their overall Contract Manufacturer. The bad side of this was that the 10% injection molding part of the job, had now control over the whole build.

Ted’s goal is to focus on processes and procedures that produce high quality products and not to have any product returns. I recommned before you think about going overseas, or even out of state, give Ted Fogliani a call and see how this local shop may be your path to a new product line.

Ted can be reached at 760.795.1295 or at http://www.outsourcemanufacturing.com/