In conjunction with coverage of California’s major new regulatory program aimed at reducing or eliminating many toxic chemicals in consumer products, here is a link to an issue brief from Michael Kirschner of ENVIRON, California’s Safer Consumer Products Regulations: Near-Term Actions and Priorities. Mr. Kirschner discusses a number of important topics including: The regulatory time…
TTI, Inc., global distributor of interconnect, passive, electromechanical and discrete components, today announced that Kevin Sink, TTI Vice President Total Quality, is slated to speak at the upcoming SAE Counterfeit Parts Avoidance Symposium – South (CPAS). The symposium is scheduled for Tuesday, December 10, 2013 in Irving, Texas. Recognized as a top industry thought leader…
Apple Inc. doesn’t have a copyright on innovation but this point seems to be lost on Philip Schiller, senior vice president of worldwide marketing at the company. All the comments I’ve seen on Schiller’s presentation to a jury in its court case against rival Samsung Electronics Inc., tells me many observers – just like Apple…
Nothing has polarized the supply chain like counterfeiting. It has pitted segments of the industry against one another (distributors versus brokers) and more recently divided the channel into two camps: Pro-DNA and anti-DNA. Both of these debates center around proposed solutions to the counterfeit problem in the channel and both have spurred action. But these…
Premier Farnell, a leading high-service distributor of electronic components, has today announced the appointment of Tom Hudak to president of Chicago-based Newark element14, its North American distribution business, with immediate effect, succeeding Paul Buckley who will be retiring at the end of December. For the last five years Tom has been president of Akron Brass,…
The semiconductor industry and its supply chain partners would benefit from a collaborative effort with the government to develop a more comprehensive and effective anti-counterfeiting technology. The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) has already put in, at minimum, five full years of research to bettering the semiconductor supply chain and is willing to work side-by-side with the government…