| dc.description.abstract | Taiwan has always played an important role in the global printed circuit board (PCB) industry, especially in the wake of the USA and China trade war conflict and the CoV-19 outbreak, highlighting Taiwan′s important position in the supply chain of electronics-related industries. The automotive electronics development is actively moving towards for environmental protection, safety and vehicle network system, the demand for automotive printed circuit boards will continue to grow, at this moment is the best time to achieve this business. Taiwan has a complete electronics industry chain such as Semiconductor maker, Assembly & Test supplier, PCB manufacturing, etc. The study object on PCB suppliers operating efficiency, to explore how to face the future development of the automotive industry and new demand, with the correct operating strategy to obtain the best benefits of company.
The study involved 14 major PCB manufacturers in Taiwan, including eight auto-related and six non-auto related PCB manufacturers, using Data Envelope Analysis (DEA) SBM (slack-measure) mode and Negative Data Malmquist (SBM-C). Explore the differences in operational efficiency and efficiency changes from year 2016 to 2020.
The data source of information takes the main operating performance influencing factors in each company′s public information, such as operating cost, operating expenses, R&D expenses, and the number of employees as inputs, Operating income, operating gross profit and net profit after tax are output items, and analyzes the operating efficiency, efficiency slack analysis and efficiency change analysis to compare the difference of auto-related and non-auto related PCB makers, and provides improvement guideline to the auto-related company.
The result as below:
1. There is no significant difference in the operation efficiency rate of auto-related and non-auto related, the auto-related PCB manufacturers have better efficiency values during rest years, and show an increasing trend year by year. except the impact of the decline of the car sales market in 2019 due to the CoV-19 impact.
2. Efficient auto-related manufacturers still have lower gross margin, R&D expense rates and business benefits per employee than non-auto manufacturers.
3. In the slack analysis result the average of auto-related PCB makers’ input items improve guideline shows 11.9% operating costs reduce, 19.8% reduce of operating expenses, 60.1% R&D expenses reduce and 12% employees quantity reduce.
4. The Malmquist catch-up index of auto-related PCB makers are slightly higher than non-auto related PCB makers, except the period year 2019-2020 non-auto related PCB makers’ catch-up index is reached 3.17 shows significant growth, mainly benefiting from the increase in demand for home economic products from the CoV-19 outbreak.
Recommendations for improving the operational efficiency of auto-related PCB makers:
1. To improve production management to reduce operating costs, strengthen process automation, increase the business benefits of each employee.
2. Breaking the awareness that auto boards are only suitable for production with established mature technologies, and improving investment to creates differentiated high-value products in order to change the situation of low gross margin. | en_US |