NCR Corp. announced that Milpitas, Calif.-based Solectron Corp., an electronics manufacturer, has been awarded a five-year deal to manufacture NCR’s ATMs and payment solutions in the Americas. Selectron will oversee the global manufacture of NCR’s self-checkout systems.

 

According to a news release, as part of the company’s manufacturing realignment, NCR expects to transfer its Americas manufacturing to Solectron's sites in Columbia, S.C., Guadalajara, Mexico, and Jaguariuna, Brazil, by the end of 2007.

 

"Expanding our relationship with Solectron supports our ability to remain competitive, build a sustainable cost structure, and better serve our customers' needs by freeing up capital to invest in new product innovation," said Bruce Langos, NCR’s senior vice president of global operations. "We believe this strategy will play a key role in helping us improve our longer-term operating margin."

 

Solectron has been producing and assembling Teradata data-warehouse servers, as well as providing systems integration for NCR's Teradata Division, for seven years.

 

"The company has consistently demonstrated its ability to adhere to the same global quality standards for manufacture and testing that we demand of all of our manufacturing facilities worldwide," Langos said.