Since 1938, the people of Molex have provided the expertise, products and service to its customers to help them compete in the global marketplace. A talented and diverse workforce, including design engineers, electrical engineers, chemists, global marketing teams, product managers, tool and die makers, enables the company to offer quick response to effectively satisfy its clients' requirements.
In 2000 the company generated record global revenues of $2,22 bn and grew about three times the rate of the rest of the connector industry which moved from flat sales in 1999 to 9% growth.
As an on-source supplier, Molex provides global account management in a customer's home country and then co-ordinates product design, logistics and delivery to multiple customer manufacturing sites worldwide. Local sales support means then that the customers receive knowledgable assistance from people who speak their language and understand their specific business environment.
The entire Molex organisation is linked through a system it calls the Molex Global Information System. This is a single database that gives its personnel anywhere in the world realtime access to customer contracts, orders, specifications and delivery requirements. Molex currently operates 52 manufacturing facilities in 19 countries and employs approximately 17 650 people.
Design and manufacturing
Design groups at Molex strive to employ the latest tools, systems and technology in their work. An integrated approach to product development is applied that involves both the customers and Molex representatives from R&D, design engineering, sales and marketing, quality and manufacturing right from the start. Much of this activity takes place in its development centres that are connected by its global CAD network. This ensures that engineers in multiple locations can cooperatively develop the best product for the customer's application. A global database also ensures the facility of design-sharing and testing results across borders and different industries.
Engineers at the Molex process and materials laboratories are resonsible for continually testing new technologies. This drives product innovation for the company. Although all customers have access to products developed and manufactured across the entire Molex organisation, the company also works closely with customers to develop non-standard products for specific applications. New product development is a key business driver for Molex with new products consistently generating nearly a third of its annual sales.
Customers are clients
Molex believes in actively identifying additional opportunities with current customers, as well as extending its reach to new accounts, industries and applications. It continues to win repeated business from major cellular phone producers, prominent notebook PC makers, the world's largest automotive suppliers, and the top telecoms manufacturers as evidence of this fact. The company keeps its stucture flexible enough to service companies in established industries, as well as in emerging growth areas. As development partners, Molex works alongside its customers to design-in innovations as integral features of their systems.
A truly global company, Molex can design, manufacture and deliver products to any location throughout the world, and services its customers through its own sales engineers and a global network of authorised distributors.
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