Time to Saddle Up on Conflict Minerals Peter Buxbaum 5/23/2013 (8) comments Companies waiting to implement a conflict minerals compliance program -- and apparently many are -- until after an appeals court rules on its validity should be getting themselves in gear in light of a recent decision by the same court in a similar case.
Contract Manufacturers Can Do More With AOI Michael Allen 5/15/2013 (3) comments Businesses can realize quality gains and cost savings with better use of automated optical inspection. Here’s how one company found success.
Supply Chain Meets Design Chain Brian Fuller 4/24/2013 (8) comments The Great Recession pushed savvy contract manufacturers to dive into design services. Here's one example.
How to Do On-Shoring Right Brian Fuller 3/25/2013 (7) comments When you play in the surveillance-camera market, it pays to offshore your electronics manufacturing... unless you're an up-and-coming Canadian firm.
Outsourced Manufacturers Struggle With Uncertain Demand iSuppli EMS, ODM Insights 3/4/2013 (4) comments Improved inventory velocity was a key theme for the outsourced manufacturing industry in 2012. Fast forward 12 months, and the hoped-for improvement has not really materialized.
Dueling Swords in EMS market Bolaji Ojo 2/22/2013 (7) comments With margins extremely tight, contract manufacturers are learning to dump some contracts while expanding services in other areas.
Do We Matter Anymore? Brian Fuller 2/21/2013 (24) comments People are becoming less valuable to companies. If that makes you uncomfortable, it's a start.
Design-for-Assembly Is Crucial to Design Success Best-Practices 2/19/2013 (15) comments When products are being designed, the engineers must also consider product characteristics beyond functions, user interfaces, appearances, or operating conditions.
Who's at the Heart of the Supply Chain? Bolaji Ojo 2/12/2013 (7) comments By moving to the core of the industry and offerings services that keep the system humming, a group within the electronics market has rendered irrelevant the question of ownership and control of the supply chain.
Water Risks Impacting Supply Chains Logical Link 2/7/2013 (7) comments Too little or too much water can hurt businesses, and manufacturers should pay closer attention to how this can impact the supply chain.
EBN Dialogue enables and encourages you to participate in live chats with notable leaders and luminaries. Not only editors and journalists, but the entire EBN community is able to comment and ask questions. Listed below are upcoming and archived chats.
Archived Dialogues
Thailand Stages a Comeback Join EBN contributor Jennifer Baljko on Thursday August 23, 2012, at 11:00 a.m. EST for a live chat on how electronic manufacturers in Thailand have shored up their supply chain to reduce the impact of future natural disasters.
Euro-Crisis: What It Means for High-Tech Firms Join EBN Editor in Chief Bolaji Ojo and Contributing Editor Jennifer Baljko on Thursday, July 12, at 10:00 a.m. EDT for a Live Chat on high-tech and Europe's economic difficulties.
Microsoft Surface: Potential Winners & Losers What are the implications for the electronics industry supply chain of Microsoft Corp.'s decision to launch its own tablet PC? Join industry veteran and EE Times' systems and OEM expert Rick Merritt on Tuesday, July 3, at 12:00 pm EDT for a Live Chat on this subject.
Join EBN contributor Jennifer Baljko on Thursday August 23, 2012, at 11:00 a.m. EST for a live chat on how electronic manufacturers in Thailand have shored up their supply chain to reduce the impact of future natural disasters.
Peter Drucker famously said "Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window." Yet in the razor's-edge world of electronics—with a lean supply chain and just-in-time demands—the need to know the future is vital.
While no one really can accurately predict the future, we can take guidance from another Drucker saying which is the best way to predict the future is to create it.
You've heard the saying "the No. 1 supply chain risk is your people." That hasn't always been the case. But today's complex global supply chain requires a new type of multitalented employee. It's one who understands, finance, marketing, economics, is savvy with technology, graceful with relationships and can think analytically.
Where are these people? Are universities properly preparing the next generation supply chain professionals? How do train your existing workforce for these new, demanding positions?
Brian Fuller, editor-in-chief of EBN, will lead a 60-minute Avnet Velocity panel discussion that will ask and answer these and other questions swirling around today's supply-chain talent challenges.
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