It is an unfortunate but perhaps not surprising fact of life that Asia’s rapid rise as a manufacturing center for the world has been accompanied by an equally rapid rise in the number of unqualified or unscrupulous suppliers muddying the waters.

Things don’t always go as planned. That was clearly the case when one of our clients, a company that has been working in Asia for quite a while, decided to acquire a new technology in order to expand their product portfolio.

Sometimes, even companies with experience operating in Asia find that cultural differences can pose seemingly insurmountable obstacles. For one design house in the optics field, that moment arrived when they needed to manufacture a 3D optic scanner module with an innovative