2018 Annual Report and Forecast for the North American EMS Industry is based on data collected from IPC’s EMS statistical program and includes a five-year market forecast from New Venture Research. It covers market sizes, potential for market growth, sales and order growth, sales by product type and vertical markets, order backlogs, domestic production and number of EMS facilities in the region. Management data include revenue per employee, cost structure of North American EMS companies, average profit margins and EBITDA, return on value added, cash-to-cash cycle time, days sales outstanding, days of supply in inventory and capacity utilization. Data represent averages for all participating companies and most are segmented by company size tier. Published August 2018.