Last week, we talked about broad realiteis of Occupational Safety and Health Organization (OSHA) hazardous chemical standards. Now, let's look at what is going to be different in OSHA's Hazardous Communications Standard (HCS) and Globally Harmonized System for Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS) compliant labeling. Some Things Change While Others Don't Labels will now…
The Swedish telecom equipment vendor Ericsson is using this week's International Consumers Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas to showcase its latest product and technology that it says will offer data-hungry smartphone users concurrent access to both licensed and unlicensed spectrum. The company is readying a device in its 6402 series of Radio Dot picocells,…
eft has just released its annual North American Hi-tech and Electronics Supply Chain – Solution Provider Perspective report.
UTRECHT, Netherlands — GreenPeak Technologies, the industry leading Smart Home low-power radio communication semi-conductor company, has created a new white paper that details how Small Data, the tiny bits of information collected from billions of small sentrollers (sensors, controllers and actuators) in homes, offices, factories, cars, in all corners of the environment, will create a…
A look inside three top combination sensors shows how vendors are taking very different routes to arrive at competitive products. We did chip teardowns of three of the leading nine-axis inertial measurement units (IMUs) released in 2013: the BMX055 from Bosch Sensortec, STMicroelectronics' LSM9DS0, and the InvenSense MPU-9250. Each player's cost is very similar, despite…
Everyone makes mistakes. When we do, we all swallow our pride, get past the embarrassment, learn, and move on. But what happens if the same mistake is made over and over again or goes unrecognized? We move into a cycle of perpetual failure, with the associated corrective action and lost opportunity costs. That's why you…
In a previous article, I introduced the use of the Sample Part Request (SPR) form so that a vendor has the responsibility of doing most of the footwork in retrieving the proper specifications for any part it is requesting for addition to your company's approved vendors list (AVL). (See: Opportunities & Challenges in Alternate Parts…
The authors of these papers will present their research at a free BUZZ session on Thursday, March 1, 2012, at IPC APEX EXPO
Before being designed into a product and added to the Item Master list, a component must be approved by a company's key individuals. The design engineer is usually the person who selects the part for a development effort; he has already determined the part value, the form factor, and the critical electrical performance characteristics. However,…
The Item Master, sometimes referred to as the Part Master, is at the very core of the company enterprise management system, but more often than not it contains only listings of component parts and part-based assemblies. By limiting the Item Master to hardware components only, there are significant lost opportunities for cost accounting and correct…