Supply chain risk is the current catchphrase for problems, glitches, or events that interrupt the continuity of supply throughout the global supply chain. While we quantify supply chain risk in high level concepts such as economic trends, geopolitical issues, and natural disasters, risk can be much more mundane, especially when encountered by early stage companies.…
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Never underestimate the power of an industrializing nation with the will to succeed. We’ve seen it happen in Japan, followed by Korea, and we’ve also observed Taiwan as it pioneered the semiconductor foundry business and mastered PC and mobile ecosystems. It’s still an open question, though, whether Taiwan can replicate in the auto market the…
DetailsOnce an engineer, Abhishek “Abhi” Dahiya has become a strong proponent of supply chain as a fulfilling and important career path. So much so that he was recognized this year by the 30 Under 30 Rising Supply Chain Stars recognition program, a jointly sponsored initiative of ThomasNet and the Institute for Supply Management (ISM). Abhishek Dahiya Currently, he is…
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Manufacturing operations strive to increase demand fulfillment and to reduce costs. But, too often these objectives seem mutually exclusive in practice. In fact, a 10-year study by Accenture of nearly 250 businesses across industries and sectors found that only 11% were meeting both goals. So what are the 11% doing differently? Interestingly, the study found…
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LAKE WALES, Fla. — The smart single-pixel camera mimics the human eye by focusing on the important details in images, such as faces, and allotting lower-resolution to areas of unimportance such as backgrounds. The invention made by researchers at the University of Glasgow (Scotland, U.K.) appears in Science Advances titled Adaptive foveated single-pixel imaging with dynamic supersampling.…
DetailsThe Electronic Representatives Association (ERA) has announced that its board of directors elected new national officers for the 2017-19 term during its March 2017 meeting. They are: chairman of the board – Dan Parks, CPMR, of West Electronic Solutions; president – David Norris of Norris and Associates; senior vice president / fiscal and legal -…
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Any organization could manage supply chain risks that were known and understood well in advance. Unfortunately, that’s not the nature of risk. A newly-announced rating system from Resilinc, a provider of a risk/resiliency platform, though, hopes to get OEMs one step closer to that elusive early warning system by rating suppliers in the high-tech sector…
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Today’s headlines about robots and jobs are enough to give anyone whiplash. From the NY Times to Forbes magazine, we’re told that robots are taking all the jobs and then, in the same breath, that robots will be the biggest job creators in history. For supply chain executives who are looking to automation to improve…
DetailsA new study by Transparency Market Research (TMR) states that the global metal oxide varistor (MOV) market is highly competitive. The leading companies are focusing aggressively on research and innovation for the development of new products. As, the companies are concentrating more on utilizing automation for the production of varistor, the competition within this market is…
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SAN FRANCISCO—NXP Semiconductors NV said Wednesday (April 19) it sold its 27% remaining stake in Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. Ltd. (ASMC), a chip foundry based in China. ASMC began as a joint venture in the late 1980s between the Chinese Government and Royal Philips Electronics NV , the Dutch giant that eventually spun off NXP.…
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