Cars that drive themselves are emerging as one of the hottest selling points in the car industry. However, a short supply of lidar (light detection and ranging), an essential component in driverless cars that detects and scans a car’s surrounding objects, is causing bottlenecks in the development and production of autonomous driving systems. During the…
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Today, electronics OEMs have a place in just about every type of market—as different products integrate electronics. Now, with smart packaging, these same organizations have an opportunity to help customers develop new markets and services, and even help brands stay relevant in a variety fast moving consumer markets. Major brands in the food and beverage,…
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C&K hires new CMO to help drive its digital transformation strategy to better support its customers and distribution partners. Electronic component manufacturers are starting to transform their businesses through digital technologies to drive growth and improve operational efficiencies and relationships internally and with customers and partners. C&K, a nearly 90-year-old manufacturer of electromechanical switches, is…
DetailsEMA Design Automation® (www.ema-eda.com), a full-service provider and innovator of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) solutions, has created a website for Ultra Librarian®, www.UltraLibrarian.com, giving electronics designers online access to pre-authored and verified parts with pricing and technical information to help them choose the best electronics components for their designs and the ability to download symbols, footprints,…
DetailsTronics, a TDK Group Company that designs and manufactures innovative nano and microsystems, has announced the opening of a MEMS production facility located in Addison, Texas, near Dallas. The fab expands Tronics’ MEMS development and manufacturing capabilities in North America. Tronics aims to utilize the full control of its manufacturing assets to provide custom MEMS…
DetailsBel Fuse Inc. (NASDAQ: BELFA) (NASDAQ: BELFB), a leading global manufacturer of products that power, protect and connect electronic circuits, is pleased to announce the launch of its new website at www.belfuse.com. Dan Bernstein, President and CEO of Bel Fuse Inc., said, “After the recent acquisitions of Power-One and Emerson Connectivity Solutions, Bel recognized the need for a unified…
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. — A computer vision specialist from Microsoft gave a deep dive into the challenges and opportunities of its HoloLens in a keynote at the Embedded Vision Summit here. His talk sketched out several areas where such augmented reality products still need work to live up to their promise. The HoloLens “will be the next…
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Return One Million Jobs (ROMJ) was created to raise $20 million to bring one million manufacturing jobs to the U.S. from offshore. The project will utilize global data analytics to help companies compare the total cost of supplying the U.S. market via manufacturing offshore vs. domestically. Over the last few decades, as many as four…
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PMI at 54.8%. New Orders, Production and Employment Growing Supplier Deliveries Slowing Inventories Growing
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ANNOCKBURN, Ill., – John Mitchell, president and CEO of IPC – Association Connecting Electronics Industries, issued the following statement on the April 29 Executive Order by President Donald Trump, creating a new White House Office on Trade and Manufacturing Policy: On behalf of more than 2,100 U.S. member facilities and 800,000 workers across the United States,…
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