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29 Mar

It’s Coming Home

For electronic manufacturers, the last two years may have felt like a bad dream on steroids. From the pandemic to supply chain disruption, all the endless uncertainty took its toll. If 2021 and 2022 ...

28 Oct

Q4. 2022 COMPONENT MARKET REVIEW

With the reduction of average chip lead times, we are finally starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. However, electronic manufacturers, and more specifically car makers are still ...

23 Aug

The Benefits Of Hiring A Professional EMS Partner

The success of your organisations project should equal expansion. But what if you don’t have the efficient capacity to handle the extra production that comes with that expansion? By outsourcing ...

30 Jun

SMT Technology | All you need to know

What is Surface-Mount Technology Assembly? (SMT) As modern electronic designs are getting smaller and more complex with an increased demand for greater functionality and added utility, engineers are ...

22 Jun

Women In Technology

Introduction Despite the rapid progress in achieving gender equality in the workplace over the past decade. Women remain highly underrepresented within the technology industry. According to women in ...

24 Mar

Q1. 2022 COMPONENT MARKET REVIEW

As we are now coming into Spring, right after observing the rest of the world celebrating the Lunar New Year, and welcoming the year of the Tiger. This year is said to be a year of positive changes ...

27 Jan

Top manufacturing forecasts for 2022

Many predicated optimism and signs of improvement throughout 2022 for the manufacturing sector. Unfortunately, they are wrong as the chip industry is in a constant struggle due to the high global ...

10 Nov

2021 – WHY IS THERE A GLOBAL CHIP SHORTAGE?

The days where you popped into an electronic store and purchased a brand new or trending game console, a laptop or any other electrical device on demand are long gone. Other online tech giants such ...

7 Oct

HOW TO REDUCE MANUFACTURING COSTS WITHOUT COMPROMISING QUALITY

Cutting costs without cutting corners is a delicate process. With recent global supply chain challenges in the electronic industry many companies needed to adapt and make drastic changes to ensure ...

9 Sep

ISO 13485 Quality Management System – What is it?

The manufacturing of medical devices is one of the most regulated sectors in which many regulations and obligations must be achieved. If any of the requirements are not met or the registrations ...

27 Aug

PCB TESTING & INSPECTION METHODS

Manufacturing PCB’s can often be an extremely complex and very costly process, especially when costs associated with faulty products are added to the picture. Even after following precise design ...

13 Aug

THE IMPORTANCE OF INDUSTRY 4.0 FOR AN EMS COMPANY?

Over the last three centuries, manufacturing industries have undergone major changes. Firstly, beginning with manual production to machines, and then moving on from machines to mass production. It is ...

29 Jul

Q3 COMPONENT MARKET REVIEW

Electronic component shortages have been a huge obstacle on booming electronic marketplaces since 2018. While new orders keep on rolling in and manufacturing remains steady, there simply has not been ...

20 Jul

COST, QUALITY & TIME – THE TRIPLE CONSTRAINT

In manufacturing, we are often asked these two questions, “How much are you prepared to pay”, and “How long are you prepared to wait?”. This highlights to us that the quality of our end ...

19 Jul

TRACEABILITY – A REQUIREMENT THAT EVERY EMS PROVIDER MUST HAVE

WHAT IS TRACEABILITY? Traceability (or TCC – Track, Trace, and Control) is a phrase that is being brought up more often when it comes to choosing the right EMS provider. Traceability involves ...

1 Jul

QUOTING FOR AN EMS COMPANY – WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

There are several requirements an EMS Company need to receive before they can respond to a request for an initial quote. These include: • Quantities required – How many products do you anticipate ...

23 Jun

CHOOSING THE RIGHT PCB ASSEMBLY PROVIDER

Since Q1, 2020 the electronic components market has experienced a high degree of unpredictable changes, with the supply of Printed Circuit Boards being no exception. With the ongoing global pandemic ...

31 May

TIPS FOR SUCCESSFUL VOLUME PRODUCTION

Are you interested in going into volume production but lack specialist facilities? A contract electronics manufacturer (CEM) is the solution to your problem. But how do you go about choosing the ...

11 May

SUSTAINABILITY IN ELECTRONIC MANUFACTURING

Sustainability in electronic manufacturing presents the opportunities to produce new product options in demand for small business manufacturers, tap into a new market, and modernize your business. ...

28 Apr

Q2 COMPONENT MARKET REVIEW

As we endeavour the second quarter of 2021, we discover the overall market situation has not changed for the electronics manufacturing industry. Although, the rest of the economy is edging closer to ...

19 Apr

IS LOCALISATION THE FUTURE OF THE SUPPLY CHAIN?

In our everyday operations, we speak to hundreds of business leaders about the challenges facing them both during the Coronavirus pandemic & Brexit. A core theme we are hearing is that the ...

30 Mar

CHOOSING THE RIGHT EMS PARTNER

For a company looking to outsource for the first time, to appoint an additional EMS partner, or to replace the one they already work with, should be the result of a strategic decision. On one hand, ...

12 Mar

2021 & BEYOND: SUPPLY CHAIN CHALLENGES

Before March 2020, in pre-pandemic periods, discussions around the supply chain tended to revolve around product life cycles, the occasional component shortage and fabrication. Today we are facing, ...

23 Feb

WHY NORTHERN IRELAND?

Following the UK’s exit from the European Union (EU) and ending of the transition period on 31 December 2020, Northern Ireland continues to have access to Great Britain (GB) and the EU markets for ...

8 Feb

MACROECONOMIC FACTORS AFFECTING OUR SUPPLY CHAIN

As the Coronavirus wreaks economic turmoil around the world, modern supply chains face unprecedented stress and are drawing an increased level of scrutiny. Today’s globalized supply chain network ...

22 Jan

ELECTRONIC MANUFACTURING EXPECTATIONS 2021

As we endeavour the first quarter of 2021, we reflect on 2020 and see the impact it has had on our supply chain and business models. Inevitably, 2020 caused widespread difficulties in the ...

11 Jan

SUPPLY CHAIN CHALLENGES FOR 2021

The Global Economy is facing considerable challenges in 2021. No area of society will be unaffected by these issues – and supply chains are no different. 2020 – A year like no other. From ...