Pharmaceutical contract manufacturers integrated technologies and services, which enable their clients to bring quality products into the market faster and therefore, deliver great value.

Today, pharmaceutical contract manufacturers offer medicines in almost every dose available in the market. The pharmaceutical contract manufacturers offer service from concept to tech transfer. It also helps in drug discovery, development, drug delivery and also clinical supply services.

Pharmaceutical contract manufacturers offer a range of services like discovery support, synthesis, pharmaceutics, analytical chemistry, microbiology, structural chemistry and clinical manufacturing.

It also offers clinical supply services like product development for both small and large molecules. Some pharmaceutical contract companies also offer cell line development. They also offer inhalation and radiopharmaceutical product development.

Through pharmaceutical contract manufacturing, any dose of medicine available in the market can be prepared. Pharmaceutical contract manufacturers prepare oral dose forms like capsules, tablets and liquids.

They also prepare sterile dose forms like lyophilization, fill/finish manufacture in vials, ampoules, and prefilled syringes. They also provide biologics for clinical and pre-clinical studies.

Some pharmaceutical contract manufacturers also offer services for packaging and launching.

Pharmaceutical contract manufacturers also offer a range of micro-fluid components, specialty flexible circuit boards, polymer waveguide components, microlens arrays, diffraction gratings, diffraction lenses and computer generated holograms.

Some pharmaceutical contract manufacturers also offer a variety of optical and opto-electric products like liquid crystal display, optical fiber array coupling, 3-D imaging, optical inter-connects, diffuser screens, beam steering, adaptive optics, optic sensors, detector arrays and special light modulators.

Electronic Contract Manufacturing

Companies that design, assemble, produce, and test electronic components and assemblies for original equipment manufacturers are known as electronic manufacturing services.

The original equipment manufacturers, commonly termed as OEMs, retain the ownership of the said product designs and brand names. Electronic Manufacturing services sometimes branch out into contract electronic manufacturers, and specialize in rapid prototyping and product testing.

Electronic manufacturing services offer large, small or medium production runs. The materials can be built from consignment, vendor-owned or customer supplied materials.

Some electronic manufacturing services offer design services like conceptual product development advice, software, and mechanical and electrical design assistance.

Various other electronic manufacturing services have testing abilities and can perform in-circuit, environmental, functional, analytical laboratory and agency compliance testing.

They use several processes and manufacturing technologies. Some of them provide printed circuit boards, connected populated boards or assembly services into larger assemblies. Other products that can be made are flexible printed circuit boards, rigid boards and rigid-flexible circuit boards.

Some vendors specialize in optoelectronics. They can assemble devices that will function as electrical to optical or optical to electrical transducers. Light emitting diodes, injection laser diodes, and photodiodes can also be assembled.

Electronic manufacturing services also include component mounting. The electronic manufacturing services use two basic technologies, through hole technology (THT) and surface mount technology (SMT).

In the THT, components are mounted on a PCB by inserting component leads through holes in the board. They are then soldering the leads in place on the opposite side of the board.

In the SMT, components are added to a PCB by soldering component leads or terminals to the top surface of the board.

Electronic manufacturing services are available all over the world and in the United States. The EMS varies in terms of production capabilities, quality standards and various regulatory requirements.