Hailey Lynne McKeefry has spent more than 28 years writing about technology and business. She began her career as an editor at such periodicals as Macintosh News, EBN, and Windows Magazine. After more than 16 years as a freelance journalist, she has written about a broad variety of technology topics, with a focus on supply chain, components, security, storage, healthcare, and SMBs. Living in the heart of the Silicon Valley, Hailey has written for many top business-to-business publications and Websites including EDN, EETimes, Information Week, CRN, eWeek, Channel Insider, Channel Pro, Redmond Channel Partner, Home Office Computing, and TechTarget. She graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz with a BA in literature. Follow her on Twitter @HaileyMcK.
Manufacturing at the service offers supply chain elasticity, particularly helpful for smaller organizations. We sat down with an industry veteran, Microfab . CEO Misha Govshteyn, to find out more.
DUST Identity has an anti-counterfeiting technology that allows components marked with diamond dust to be tracked throughout the supply chain.
U.S. manufacturing has been on a growth track, but that trend is slowing, according to supply chain executives polled in the latest Manufacturing ISM Report on Business. The overall economy has grown for 122nd consecutive month, with economic activity in manufacturing expanding in June. However, growth has been modest, perhaps related to a variety of…
Electronics OEMs rely on ocean shipping for transporting much of the heavier goods used in manufacturing, as well as for moving finished product. Whether raw materials or manufactured goods, seaborne trade is a critical piece of the global economy as well. In fact, there are over 50,000 merchant ships trading internationally for all types of…
Supply chain leaders across the globe are talking about the promise of blockchain, but there’s been little demonstration about suitable use cases. And OEMs are getting tired of it, at least according to market research firm Gartner. In fact, at a recent Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conferences 2019, the firm predicted that by 2023, 90%…
Today, software vendor Cleo released the latest iteration of its Cleo Integration Cloud platform which aims to help organizations optimize supply chain processes including order-to-cash and procure-to-pay, across internal and external ecosystems of applications, systems, marketplaces, and trading partners. “Ecosystem integration is the next frontier in how organizations with a supply chain should be thinking,”…
AspenCore Media has taken a deep dive into the question of Where Security Meets Privacy in the 21st Century. Included in this Special Project are: Sitting at the Crossroads of Cybersecurity and Privacy, Designing Hardware for Data Privacy, and Facial Recognition: The Ugly Truth. For electronics OEMs, ensuring that the semiconductor chips that they source…
Especially in the global electronics industry, supply chain disruptors, including economic, political, geographic and more, abound. Perhaps more than in other sectors, electronics OEMs and their suppliers find themselves dealing with a variety of countries, each with its own risk profile. FM Global recently released its 2019 FM Global Resilience Index, which for the…
The global electronics manufacturing industry has been talking about the huge talent gap for supply chain jobs. Universities are stepping up with new and more flexible educational programs. Now, it’s time to get the word out about the promising opportunity for those who choose a career in supply chain. Last week, the Association for Supply…
The ubiquitous attention to creating and maintaining ethics and compliance programs point to the importance of being a good corporate citizen, but research also bears out that the most ethical companies are perform noticeably better financially. This year, in the Ethisphere Institute’s list of the World’s Most Ethical Companies, high-tech players, from consultants to OEMS…