EMS industry report

Trade associations publish at three tiers, and knowing which tier a product belongs to prevents both overspending and under-estimating access. For electronic manufacturing services, the cataloged hub is Global Electronics Association (IPC) - Statistical Programs & EMS Intelligence:

• Free headline tier: one monthly EMS release and one monthly PCB release - North American shipments and book-to-bill - readable and quotable with attribution.
• Commercial tier: the Global EMS Industry Report 2025, sold through the association store, with global scope per the coverage note ('global scope for the EMS Industry Report and sentiment research').
• Participant tier: statistical-program microdata restricted to participating companies, with detail splits by production type, company size tier and vertical market.
• Periodic sentiment reports round out the calendar; the hub updates monthly and scores 8/10 for quality.

Market-sizing purchases in EMS go wrong by tier confusion more than price.

• The free monthly is a diffusion index, not a market study. Book-to-bill and shipment releases indicate direction; they cannot substitute for the report's market sizing when a board deck needs revenue figures.
• Participant microdata is the deepest and the narrowest. Detail splits by production type, company size tier and vertical market never reach non-participants - competitors in the program see structure you cannot buy separately.
• Licensing differs by tier. Headline figures are quotable with attribution; the sold report carries purchase terms; program data carries participation obligations.
• Across Datadory's 1,744 datasets, 235 (13.5%) are freemium - the IPC hub is this slice's example of free-with-paid-depth done deliberately.

1. Identify which tier answers your question. Direction (free monthly releases), market size (sold Global EMS Industry Report 2025) or participant-grade splits by production type, size tier and vertical market - each lives in a different access lane. 2.

• book-to-bill-ratio - the demand signal in the free monthly releases, published for North America with each release out by end of the following month.
• member-gated-association-content - the Knowledge Hub/library material reserved for members, a fourth lane beyond the report and the statistical program.
• participant-funded-statistics - the contribution-funded program whose detail splits by production type, size tier and vertical market non-participants never see.