With 17 out of 18 U.S. manufacturing industries expanding in March, domestic producers closed the first quarter of 2017 on a high note. Although the Institute for Supply Management’s leading index, the PMI, cooled a bit from February – a decrease of 0.5 percent to 57.2 — the industry expanded in March for the seventh consecutive…
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The automotive supply chain may be early victims of the United Kingdom's expected exit from the European Union (EU). As the country prepares to leave the EU, concerns are becoming more vocal among international auto executives. They want to know how they can plan their supply chains and bring in and send out parts, sub-assemblies…
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Contract manufacturers (CMs) are a critical part of many electronics supply chains. This year, 30 Under 30 Rising Supply Chain Stars recognition program, a jointly sponsored initiative of ThomasNet and the Institute for Supply Management (ISM), identified a key supply chain professional at giant CM Flex as one of its winners. Gerardo Cabrera has the positon of global commodity…
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MADISON, Wis. – Apple has notified Imagination Technologies Group, a key GPU core licenser to Apple for years, that it will no longer use Imagination’s intellectual property in new products. Imagination disclosed the Apple cutoff on Monday (April 3). For the U.K.-based graphics IP firm, whose GPU core technologies have been intrinsic to Apple’s phones, tablets, iPods, TVs…
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Kevin Sellers joined Avnet Inc. as chief marketing officer about 18 months ago after a 23-year stint at Intel Corp., one of the electronics industry’s most successful companies from a revenue and branding perspective. It’s no wonder therefore that some of Sellers’ experience at Intel would rub off on Avnet which today launched a global…
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Temperature measurement accuracy is an essential part of many electronics designs. This is especially true in consumer, industrial and automotive electronics applications where the functionality or efficiency of an entire system is often dependent on temperature-based variables. With recent advances in surface-mounted negative temperature coefficient (SMD NTC) thermistors, designers, engineers and purchasers – all involved…
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Otto, the robotrucker, has achieved the ultimate goal. It piloted a semi full of Budweiser beer across Colorado in October. Uber is the proud owner of the Otto Company, which doesn’t bode well for the long-term employment of part-time cabbies they are famous for. However, the real and relatively imminent threat is to the employment…
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Supply chain visibility is no longer a “nice to have” feature. It is a foundational and critical capability when serving today’s more informed, connected, and influential consumer. To be candid, without supply chain visibility companies operate much less efficiently, and in this market reality, inefficient operations are a short step away from shuttered storefronts and…
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Avnet.com users woke up Monday to a freshly redesigned and completely overhauled website spotting a new corporate tagline, logo and color – green is in and red is out. These are all elements of a revamped promotional and global branding campaign heralding the fundamental reorganization and strategic business repositioning being carried out at one of…
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2017 is a landmark year for Master Electronics. It marks 50 years since Ike Nizam founded the specialty electronics component distributors in a southern California apartment. That’s not all that’s noteworthy about 2017, though. Master Electronics is this year implementing a strategic reinvention campaign to enable it remain nimble and innovative serving small and mid-tier…
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