Plexus Corp. is beefing up its North America operation with the addition of a 265,000 sq. ft. plant in Guadalajara, Mexico, as the world’s leading contract manufacturers respond to growing requests from OEMs for production facilities situated closer to end customers. After years of expanding operations in the Far East top-tier electronics manufacturing services (EMS)…
DetailsGT Nexus has signed an agreement to provide HP with cloud-based global supply chain visibility and a logistics control platform. The networked, multi-enterprise solution is designed to connect HP’s network of logistics providers and suppliers across four continents in a single source of supply chain information for orders, inventory, shipments and documents.
DetailsAt the beginning of every engineering project, certain items of information must be known. It is this very early stage of product development that determines what material and human resources will be required to go forward with the design and ultimately produce the final product. One of the first documents to be referenced may be…
DetailsPlexus Corp. (PLXS), said its board of directors has approved a new stock repurchase program under which the company is authorized to repurchase up to $30 million of its common stock during fiscal 2014. The planned repurchase represents approximately 3 percent of current market capitalization and is expected to be funded with existing cash. The…
DetailsIt’s a barely noticeable trickle now but what if all the prodigal Western OEMs who shifted production en masse to low-cost locations in Asia suddenly move even a single-digit percentage of their manufacturing volume back home? Will the electronics supply chain be able to handle the flood and does the industry anymore have the intellectual…
DetailsFuture Electronics, a global leading distributor of electronic components, announces immediate availability of Semtech’s SX1232, a fully integrated, high performance ISM band transceiver with a minimum of external components and low current consumption in all operating modes. The SX1232 is a fully integrated ISM band transceiver optimized for use in the (EN 300 220-1) 868…
DetailsMouser Electronics, Inc. has immediate stock availability of Freescale’s Kinetis L KL3/KL4 family of flexible low-power MCUs with LCD controllers with up to 376 segments. Freescale has expanded their Kinetis L Series Microcontrollers to now include the Kinetis KL3 and KL4 families. These new MCUs now include flexible, low-power LCD controllers with up to 376…
DetailsRochester Electronics, a fully-authorized manufacturer and distributor of semiconductors, continues to manufacture the 9513 family by AMD since it went EOL over a decade ago. The 9513 time controlling chip is an LSI circuit that has been designed to service many types of counting, sequencing and timing applications across an array of industries. Rochester Electronics…
DetailsMaybe I am just getting old and grumpy but I can’t think of any real supply chain innovation in the last 10 years except for the applications that Lytica has developed. I realize that this sounds self-aggrandizing but everything else just seems to get you the same answer, faster. This is not altogether a bad…
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Leading global supply chains depend on the same small group of sub-tier suppliers, concentrating the risk and increasing the potential for supply chain disruptions, according to a study from Resilinc Corp. The study focused on the high-tech and automotive industries.
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