Quality has become a life-or-death issue for companies and their customers. Thus, effective product quality needs to be a before-thought rather than an afterthought. To keep quality top of mind and top of design, quality tools are making their way into design tools. Since the beginning of ISO 9000 and 9001 product quality has required…
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Electronics companies, including OEMs, distributors, and component manufactures are working hard to attract and retain young talent. The good news is that it's working and many of these companies are feeling the impact that this new influx of supply chain professionals are making on the electronics industry. Christian Goehring, logistics support supervisor at Avnet, one…
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As was widely reported in the news media earlier this month, the World Trade Organization (WTO) ruled in favor of the United States on the latter's complaint against the Indian government's insistence on domestic / local content requirements (DCR / LCR) for its Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (NSM) for solar cells and solar modules.…
DetailsTualatin, Ore. — CUI Inc has announced the recent addition of Steve Mathis to their organization to fill the role of Vice President of Global Sales. The appointment is part of CUI’s drive to better serve the complex needs of their quickly growing global OEM customer base. Steve brings a deep understanding of the networking, industrial/transportation,…
DetailsHoffman Estates, Ill. – Omron Electronic Components is pleased to announce the opening of its Creative Lab in San Jose, California. The new technology lab is in Tisch Tower, located next to Santana Row in the Silicon Valley region. The Creative Lab is an open-air environment, with unique collaborative spaces and labs. It houses teams from…
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SAN FRANCISCO – While still at the stage of prototypes and developer kits, the nascent market for virtual and augmented reality headsets will explode by 2018, according to a panel of proponents at the Game Developers Conference here. “In the long run, we think virtual reality will have hundreds of millions of users and end…
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Business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce is far more complex than business-to-consumer (B2C), but the business opportunity is tremendous. By 2020, the market for B2B e-commerce is expected to grow to more than $1 trillion, according to predictions from Forrester Research. Most of this is due to the changing B2B buyer persona: consistently online, mobile, and millennial. While…
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The exchange rate of the U.S. dollar and Mexican peso is a hot topic amongst the manufacturing world and has caused an increase in nearshoring to Mexico due to this discrepancy. OEMs can greatly benefit from the value of the Mexican Peso compared to that of the U.S. dollar by manufacturing in Mexico and reducing…
DetailsWilmington, Mass. – Heilind Electronics, a leading global distributor of electronic components, has added Omron’s new G6DN PCB power relays to its extensive line of Omron products. Measuring 5mm wide, these miniature SPST power relays feature contacts with a high-capacity resistive switching load rating of 5A at 250VAC for 80,000 cycles. The high electrical endurance of these…
DetailsAliso Viejo, Calif. — Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC), a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, today announced the availability of its Secured Production Programming Solution (SPPS) for its field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The new solution securely generates and injects cryptographic keys and configuration bitstreams into Microsemi’s FPGAs thus preventing cloning, reverse engineering, malware insertion,…
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