Abstract

The rapid growth of semiconductor foundries in Asia has lead to increased demand for printed circuit boards (PCBs), and thus the region has become the main production site of the PCB industry. Because maintaining a high level of performance can enhance competitiveness, it is important for PCB firms to measure their comparative performance. In this work, a survey is conducted to obtain the operating data of Asian large roach in data envelopment analysis is applied to identify the benchmark firm. We interview the managers of firms to obtain retails of the relevant outstanding strengths and strategies, from which some management insights are obtained. The contributions of this study are that it can not only compare the strengths and advantages among this areas in the PCB industry, but also the management insights thus obtained can be used as a reference for the management of PCB firms in a challenging economic climate.

Key words: Data envelopment analysis, efficiency, printed circuit board, slack analysis.