Many of the companies making up Thailand’s auto-parts manufacturing industry are small- and medium-sized enterprises struggling to gather strength in a business environment that offers tons of potential, as long as they can find the right staff, polish up their management practices, keep up with technological change, beat the competition and deliver high-quality goods to a larger market. Under all of those pressures, it often helps hard-pressed SMEs to recognize a Thai firm that has achieved all of this, and to take a few lessons from its modus operandi. O.E.I. Group was founded 22 years ago, in 1993. It was originally O.E.I. Parts
Co. Ltd, with registered capital of Bt1 million, 4 CNC lathes and 10 employees,