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D-link is an engineering driven company with a strong commitment to Research and Development. Industry awards and accolades underscore the quality, reliability and technical excellence that our research and development engineers build into our products.
At D-Link our people have developed a process for delivering results. Our work is also noted within the engineering community by chipmakers when they contract with us to engineer the reference design for new technologies. Other computer companies also contract with D-Link to access our engineering design teams for Original Design Manufacturing (ODM).
D-Link has also developed key relationships with the industry silicon chipmakers to keep the Company on the extreme edge of technology innovation. D-Link is an active member of key organizations that shape the worldwide networking industry, including IEEE, SNMP, PCMCIA, PCI, and ATM.
With ISO 9001, 9002, ISO 14001 Certifications and National Technical Excellence awards for Research and Development (R&D), process engineering and manufacturing, D-Link delivers product excellence, quality, reliability, compatibility, and high-performance within standards.
In 2000, to improve efficiency and further cut cost, D-Link moved to a larger production facility in the Science-based |
Industrial Park in Hsin-chu, Taiwan. This new facility replaced two smaller manufacturing plants, also in Hsin-chu, that the Company had previously maintained.
The new Hsin-chu facility has a total floor area of 452,000 square feet. The plant has seven Surface Mount Technology (SMT) lines, which can be joined together to produce three extra long SMT lines if required. It also has four through-hole (manual insertion) lines, six final assembly lines and an automated warehouse system. The facility runs three full shifts per day. The Dongguan facility has a total floor space of 426,000 square feet, with six SMT and through-hole lines, and five final assembly lines. This plant can be expanded to accommodate up to fourteen SMT lines. The China plant's most important advantage to D-Link is its proximity to its Taiwan headquarters. This plant also provides the benefits of inexpensive labor and low-cost product components, plus a common language and culture with the head office, enabling the company to easily achieve expansion and cost reduction. D-Link produces high value-added products at its Hsin-chu facilities, benefiting from Taiwan's highly trained and knowledgeable labor force. It utilizes the Dongguan facility to manufacture the more labor intensive, high-volume products.
D-Link continues to design and produce many of the key ASICs used in its products, as the Company sought to minimize material costs and ensure consistent quality, with volume purchases of key components from a select number of suppliers. In 2001, D-Link added another plant in Goa that produces timely shipments in the subcontinent and to nearby markets. |
Teams of engineers are assigned to product technology areas and work to shape feature innovations within industry standard-based technologies, which helps drive the evolution of the technology. D-Link extends its innovations by working with technical alliances, as well as co-invested R&D projects with technology partners.
The Company has increased its world-class production capacity to more than 1,000,000 square feet of manufacturing space in six state-of -the-art facilities in four countries -- Taiwan, China, India, and the United States.
D-Link's main production facilities are located in Hsin-chu, Taiwan and Dongguan China. The Company also has manufacturing plants in Goa, India and Irvine, California. D-Link's production line in Irvine California is engaged in the manufacturing of high-end products for the US market, as well as the world market.
The plant duplicates the production and raw material sourcing techniques of the Hsin-chu plant, which allows for greater cost savings. This China facility now sources a significant proportion of raw materials from suppliers in China, including from facilities in Dongguan, established by certain of D-Link's key Taiwanese suppliers.
Over the past years, significant improvements have been made in lowering the cost of manufacturing. As an indicator of this, raw materials accounted for 81.3%, 88.6%, 89.7% and 90.7% of D-Link's consolidated cost of goods sold in 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000 respectively. At the same time, the actual cost of raw materials has also been reduced, while quality has been better guaranteed in most cases.