Editor’s Note: Welcome to AspenCore’s Special Project on Tesla. This article, along with the articles listed at the bottom of the page, looks at Tesla’s manufacturing and supply chain woes and the long road to a Tesla Model 3. Electric vehicle (EV) start-up Tesla has disrupted the electronics supply chain, but not in the way the…
While the mantra of the high-tech industry is constant change, the types of changes our industry has been facing just this month are far outside the norm. The burning business and industry questions are not about volatile market cycles but what happens when ideology meets manufacturing reality along the global supply chain. There are, to…
It’s no secret that developing tight relationships with your suppliers will garner major benefits including better pricing, higher quality parts, and access to the latest innovations and savings opportunities. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the automotive industry, where some of the largest automotive OEMs have lost their way, while others are reaping the…
A battery of questions about the implications for the electronics industry came to mind when Ford Motor Co. (NYSE:F) recently announced the new F-150 pickup’s aluminum construction. My initial question was “What are the downsides of switching from steel to aluminum?” Without a doubt, the issues involving safety and overall strength become primary consumer concerns…
Flextronics announced today that it received two of Ford Motor Company’s 2012 World Excellence Awards (WEA). Paul Humphries, group president of the High Reliability Solutions business group at Flextronics, accepted the awards on behalf of the Company at the World Excellence Awards ceremony that was recently held in Dearborn, Michigan. Flextronics received Ford’s Corporate Responsibility…