Chicago, Ill. – element14 today announces three senior level appointments to strengthen its management team, following a global reorganization and strategic operational review. Dan Hill and Peter Birks have been appointed Business Presidents of Sales and Marketing and will be responsible for element14’s sales and marketing businesses in North America and Europe, respectively. Hill and Birks…
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Over a dozen ports around the word are expected to emerge as new global logistics hubs by 2020, reflecting how several factors are shaking up supply chain distribution networks around the world. From a supply chain management perspective, these new mega-hub ports are growing and adapting in order to meet a surge in distribution demand…
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In the next five years, customer behavior is set to disrupt businesses in all industries. However, most operations fail to deliver what customers value now, or three years from now, according to a recent study from PwC. The research surveyed 1,262 operations decision-makers across the globe about their supply chain. The majority of operations executives…
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LAS VEGAS—The field of autonomous driving technologies revealed its substantial expansion at this year’s International Consumer Electronics Show (CES). In the autonomous driving chip segment alone, aside from incumbents such as Nvidia, Mobileye, NXP and Texas Instruments, a host of new players — Ceva, an IP vendor, Intel and Qualcomm — are now also breaching…
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You may be asking what your company needs to do to stay competitive in the New Year. B2B companies are moving online towards a cloud-based, omnichannel approach. The B2B electronics market is no exception and there is still a lot to be learned from our B2C counterparts who have mastered this experience. Businesses will no…
DetailsMouser Electronics, Inc. is now shipping the Intel® Celeron® Processor N3000 Series, the next-generation Intel Architecture (IA) system-on-chip (SoC) based on Intel’s 14nm process technology. Formerly known as Braswell, these 64-bit processors integrate graphics, memory controller, and I/O interfaces into a single SoC solution that balances cost, performance, and power. The Intel Celeron Processor N3000…
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The trend known as reshoring remains controversial, depending on how success is measured. Many companies have been persuaded by incentives to not move offshore, and several large electronics manufacturers, including Apple Inc., have opened factories within the U.S. But when compared with the number of companies moving to other regions, reshoring comes up short. In 2015,…
DetailsWith effect from 1st of November 2015, Rutronik Elektronische Bauelemente GmbH will be serving as a global distributor for Sensirion. In doing so, Rutronik is further developing its extensive sensor portfolio and supporting Sensirion in its global sales and support operations for high-quality sensors and sensor solutions. The global franchise agreement includes the Sensirion humidity…
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The cloud and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) are making inroads with large enterprises because they promise better, faster, lower total cost of ownership ways to apply information technology to procurement and supply chain problems that have never been adequately addressed. As these deployments grow in size, complexity and strategic importance, the risk of failure increases as well.…
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The so-called 3TG minerals — tin, tungsten, tantalum, and gold — are some of the most needed raw materials in manufacturing but have become the most perplexing to obtain. Much of the minerals originate from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and surrounding region, the sale of which funds the warlords and armed groups that…
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