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Manufacturers are “banking” electronic chips to protect against shortages

Design World

Contributed by Del Williams When the demand for electronic chips outstrips supply, prices rise, impacting consumers and manufacturers alike. Just as volatile oil markets succumb to geopolitical tensions, shortages, and natural disasters, such factors also impact computer chip supply chains.

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Environmental Sensors Increase Supply Chain Visibility

Gary Mintchell

This will enable them to know if products have been maintained within appropriate conditions across the supply chain. The post Environmental Sensors Increase Supply Chain Visibility appeared first on The Manufacturing Connection.

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Electronics Manufacturers face a future full of challenges – Are you ready?

Manufacturer's Monthly

Image: ECI Solutions The world of electronics manufacturing is in flux. The global electronics manufacturing market is expected to reach $1.16 Jim McGregor, a tech analyst at CCS Insight believes that it’s crucial that electronic manufacturers keep up with the technology changes. The average smartphone lifespan is a mere 2.5

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Siemens Unveils Next Generation AI-enhanced Electronic Systems Design Software

i4.0 today

Siemens Digital Industries Software announced today the latest advancement in its electronic systems design portfolio. Shared by all Xpedition and HyperLynx products, the next generation of electronic systems design dramatically increases productivity and makes HyperLynx analysis available to a wider group of designers.

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What is supply chain?

Fastener News Desk

The supply chain is the interconnected journey that raw materials, components, and goods take before their assembly and sale to customers. McKinsey & Company – Listen to the article: What is supply chain? In contrast, a value chain encompasses all the individual steps that are taken to create a marketable product.

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Collaborate, improve resilience in an industrial automation supply chain

Control Engineering

Learning Objectives Understand how rapid changes in supply chains created a need to share more information more effectively. Learn the advantages of improving data transparency for supply chains. See how tools can increase supply chain digitalization, integration and automation.

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Unlocking Sustainability Opportunities Through Supply Chain Digitalization

Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

Towards Lower Emissions and a Sustainable Supply Chain With the global developments moving towards sustainability, Oman and UAE have both pledged net zero emissions by 2050, whereas KSA, Kuwait and Bahrain have committed to zero carbon emissions by 2060.