“What is the price of a barrel of oil today?” That’s a question I ask my classes during the first few minutes of our first session, be it an undergraduate class in operations management, a graduate class in supply chain management, or a professional development seminar full of supply chain professionals. Sadly, only a few…
DetailsThe supply chain continues to add strategic value to the organization for many electronics OEMs. Hoping to be part of the transformation, many professionals are looking at going after a graduate degree. The good news is that leading universities are offering something for every situation from those who want to be full-time students to those…
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Good grief. I can’t believe it. It's almost Crimble. (That's Christmas to you non-Brits.) Where does the time go? I'm too young for all this excitement! This means, of course, that it's that time of the year when we're all desperately looking for appropriate gifts for our family and friends. In some cases, this ends…
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The interdependency of the electronics supply chain may be hampering companies’ efforts toward digital transformation, research finds. While 75 percent of executives in the manufacturing and retail supply chains say a digital strategy is very important for their business, only five percent are satisfied with progress so far. There are two levels of digital transformation occurring among…
DetailsManufacturers spent decades – and billions of dollars – adjusting to traditional Lean and Six Sigma ideals, only to realize the practices meant to optimize can actually make their supply chains too lean. This could leave them brittle and unable to flexibly adapt in the rapidly changing digital world. The solution is a new era…
DetailsSupply chain disruption has been a recurring topic in 2016. Along with “disruption,” we've all heard terms like “leveraging data,” or acquiring “visibility and transparency” via a necessary “digital transformation.” It's often frustrating to come across these terms through marketing material on a vendor's website, or articles by “industry thought leaders” that never offer a…
DetailsTDK Corporation announces the renaming of its group company “Micronas” to “TDK-Micronas”. TDK-Micronas is a leading supplier of Hall-effect sensors with more than 40 years’ experience in the Automotive industry. The company today offers the world’s broadest range of Hall-effect sensors and embedded motor controllers for the Automotive and Industrial markets. As already disclosed, with…
DetailsAmetherm today announced that sample kits of the company’s inrush current limiters and NTC sensing thermistors are now available from leading electronic component distributor Mouser Electronics. Mouser is stocking Ametherm’s Standard, Mega, Mini, and Sensor Sample Kits. “Consisting of Ametherm’s most popular inrush current limiters and NTC sensing thermistors, our convenient sample kits provide designers with a quick and…
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SAN JOSE, Calif. — Today, the IEEE kicked off a broad initiative to make ethics a part of the design process for systems using artificial intelligence. The effort, in the works for more than a year, hopes to spark conversations that lead to consensus-driven actions and has already generated three standards efforts. The society published…
DetailsIC Insights has just released its new Global Wafer Capacity 2017-2021—Detailed Analysis and Forecast of the IC Industry’s Wafer Fab Capacity report. Prior to 2008, the 200mm wafer was used in more cases for manufacturing ICs than any other wafer size. However, since 2008, the majority of IC fabrication has taken place on 300mm wafers.…
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