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Resources for Hardware Teams

Guides, analysis, and technical content for electronics engineering and procurement.

Altimade Fuses Design with Manufacturing
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Altimade Fuses Design with Manufacturing

Taking a new design from concept to manufacturing can be difficult, and transferring files to the manufacturer can take unprecedented blocks of time.…

January 30, 2022
Guidance for Orders Placed During Lunar New Year in Q1'22
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Guidance for Orders Placed During Lunar New Year in Q1'22

As the new year is well underway, we wanted to provide a Supply Chain and Product update for our valued customers on what you can expect in the first…

January 6, 2022
Minimizing Production Disruption During the 2022 Lunar New Year
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Minimizing Production Disruption During the 2022 Lunar New Year

The Lunar New Year will begin on February 1st, 2022, catalyzing the most significant annual mass migration of people on the planet. Millions of…

December 3, 2021
Alternative Part Sourcing
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Alternative Part Sourcing

Engineering and Supply Chain teams at companies developing hardware products can’t seem to catch a break. From trade wars to pandemic lockdowns and…

November 9, 2021
Tolerances Stack Up
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Tolerances Stack Up

Electrical and mechanical components are not absolute in their attributes. They have production tolerances within the design with variance over their…

May 14, 2021
Is Cloud Manufacturing the Future of the Industry?
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Is Cloud Manufacturing the Future of the Industry?

Cloud Manufacturing is the next great advance in lean production. In many of the same ways that cloud computing enabled software companies to be more…

April 1, 2021
Supply Chain Security in 2021
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Supply Chain Security in 2021

When the Supermicro story broke a year ago, the electronics world was split into two – people who believed the story was true and those who deemed it…

March 30, 2021
Webinar Recap: DFM Beyond the Digital Domain
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Webinar Recap: DFM Beyond the Digital Domain

In case you missed it, we co-hosted a webinar with Autodesk to discuss how adapting some overlooked design for manufacturing practices can help you…

March 26, 2021
Supply Chain Critical Components
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Supply Chain Critical Components

A successful manufacturing implementation of a new system project needs a plan for supply chain component dependencies during the development. Supply…

March 17, 2021
Avoiding Electronics Supply Chain Delays in Q1

Avoiding Electronics Supply Chain Delays in Q1

Remember the wildly unpredictable lead times for electronics a few years ago due to component shortages? Buckle up: supply chain delays are brewing.…

January 27, 2021
MacroFab in 2020 and Beyond
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MacroFab in 2020 and Beyond

For most of us, 2020 has been a challenging year, personally and professionally. The inability to gather with our families, balancing…

December 21, 2020
Impact of Lunar New Year and COVID Vaccines on PCBA Lead Times
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Impact of Lunar New Year and COVID Vaccines on PCBA Lead Times

As the holiday season quickly approaches, we wanted to provide an update on what you can expect through the end of 2020 and into the first quarter of…

December 15, 2020