The trifecta of a strong dollar, low oil prices and concerns about China continued to dog the U.S. manufacturing market in October. The domestic industry’s leading index, the Institute for Supply Management’s PMI, moved uncomfortably close to 50 — the dividing line between growth and contraction. The PMI in October measured 50.1 percent, down from…
RFID hasn’t taken off in the electronics supply chain as expected, but the market value of these ID tags continues to grow. The global RFID smart label market is estimated to grow from $2.2 billion in 2014 to $4.9 billion by 2019, at a CAGR of 17 percent from 2014 to 2019, according to a…
The electronics industry today is characterized by an ever-sprawling set of global supply chains, causing an increase in disparate labeling systems spread across the enterprise with an ever increasing volume of duplicated label and redundant master data. This begs the question: how effective is labeling in the electronics industry today? Can labeling be more optimized…
January manufacturing activities weakened in China to their lowest level since last June, dragged down by a drop in export orders and as companies increased job cuts, according to the HSBC monthly report on global production. The employee attrition rose to a nearly 5-year high, the bank said in the report jointly compiled with Markit…
The semiconductor and OEM industries will enjoy significant revenue growth in 2013—partly due to tight management of inventory levels, according to IHS.
Inventory levels at chip suppliers fell significantly during the first quarter, according to market researcher IHS, indicating an uptick in demand for electronics products. On the other hand, semiconductor companies often shift inventory into the channel at the end of reporting periods as they seek to improve their bottom lines. Chip maker revenues declined in…
El Segundo, Calif. − Semiconductor inventory declined much faster than projected in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to a report from IHS iSuppli. Intel led the stockpile reductions, lowering inventory by nearly $600 million. AMD and STMicroelectronics followed with inventory declines of $182 million and $131 million, respectively. The percentage of decrease ranged from 5…