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Custom Electronics or COTS Electronics?
This is a crucial question for key players in the embedded systems market, a question entailing some key strategic choices in the investment allocation and technological requirements, the use of resources, cost parameters, the life cycle and product development. The answer determines the company positioning and its successful potential in a competitive market, which often poses challenges that are difficult to measure up to: high level of industrialisation and integration, development capability and contained unit costs, customised solutions and time-to-market.
CUSTOM Eletcronics
- Design costs borne by the client
- Low product unit cost
- Long Time-To-Market
- Medium/high volumes
- Special ised features
- Optim ised integration
- Product development borne by the client
- Long-termcontractsupport
COTS Electronics
- Design costs borne by the manufacturer
- High product unit cost
- Fast Time-To-Market
- Low volumes
- Standard market features
- Non-optimal integration
- Product evolution imposed by the manufacturer
- Uncertain long-term support
