SAN JOSE, Calif. — An engineer with little working experience in security used open-source code to win a challenge finding breaches in a home network. The effort, while promising, showed that there’s still plenty of work ahead to close vulnerabilities in the Internet of Things, participants said. Contestants were provided with two short recordings of RF traffic…
DetailsTraditionally, the Industrial sector has represented only a small portion of total semiconductor sales. According to SIA/WSTS End Use data, semiconductor sales to the Industrial market comprise only 12% of total semiconductor revenues. In addition, the Industrial sector traditionally grows at a comparably slow, steady rate. From 2010 to 2015, the Industrial sector experienced a…
DetailsIPC — Association Connecting Electronics Industries® announced today the December 2016 findings from its monthly North American Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Statistical Program. Sales growth in December was solid while the PCB book-to-bill ratio slipped to 0.98. Total North American PCB shipments in December 2016 were up 5.9 percent compared to the same month last year.…
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Orders surged 61 percent in assembly applications while food & consumer goods orders increased 32 percent
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BALTIMORE – Barcoding, Inc., the leader in supply chain efficiency, accuracy, and connectivity, announces the release of its new Enterprise Mobility Services. Barcoding’s new business service areas will enhance customer satisfaction and provide peace of mind during OS migrations, platform upgrades and enterprise deployments. Barcoding’s Enterprise Mobility Services will aim to proactively monitor solutions to…
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While the mantra of the high-tech industry is constant change, the types of changes our industry has been facing just this month are far outside the norm. The burning business and industry questions are not about volatile market cycles but what happens when ideology meets manufacturing reality along the global supply chain. There are, to…
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IPC Releases PCB Industry Results for December 2016
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NEEDHAM, MA – The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), the global, member-driven organization that promotes the accelerated growth of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), announced the publication of version 1.8 of the Industrial Internet Reference Architecture (IIRA). This new version builds on version 1.7, originally published on June 17, 2015 , by incorporating rapidly emerging new…
DetailsWhen people think of Industry 4.0 or the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), they may think of robots whizzing around factory floors assembling products at super human speed. While automation is the most visible aspect of Industry 4.0 and IIoT, these initiatives are also beginning to make a significant impact on supply chain management and…
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“Trust, but verify” is derived from a Russian proverb. Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan famously applied this term with regards to nuclear disarmament. As with any negotiation, achieving a sustainable supply chain is possible with the right balance of “trust and verify”. However, market forces and leverage alone, do not bring about trust. Shared values…
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