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NEWS

China Shipments to India Foxconn Plants Stuck at Ports

NEW DELHI – India’s scrutiny of imports from China has disrupted operations at Foxconn plants there, according to reports. Other firms are f... Read More...

EMS/ODM Up 2.5% in 2019, But Covid Will Slow Some Markets

NEVADA CITY, CA – The worldwide contract manufacturing (CM) services market increased 2.5% year-over-year in total revenue to $555 billion, ... Read More...

Kimball Electronics Promotes Korn, Kemper

JASPER, IN – Kimball Electronics promoted Steve Korn to president of global electronics manufacturing services operations, effective July 1.... Read More...

CIRCUITS ASSEMBLY Opens 2021 NPI Awards

CIRCUITS ASSEMBLY opened its 2021 New Product Introduction Awards (NPI) for printed circuit board assembly. Read More...

CIRCUITS ASSEMBLY Opens 2021 Service Excellence Awards

CIRCUITS ASSEMBLY opened registration for its annual Service Excellence Awards (SEAs) for EMS providers and electronics assembly equipment, ... Read More...

DataED, Bestronics Formally Merge; Will Now be Called Emerald EMS

SALEM, NH — Principals in DataED and Bestronics announced today the merger of the two leading global EMS providers to form Emerald Electroni... Read More...

Scanfil EMS to Sell Hangzhou Plant

HANGZHOU, CHINA – Scanfil EMS is selling the entire share capital of its subsidiary Scanfil (Hangzhou) Co. for €18.4 million to Hangzhou Cab... Read More...

ECIA: By End of 2020, Most Electronics Workers Will Be Back on Site

ATLANTA – The tide is turning positive for large-scale reopenings among electronics components suppliers over the rest of the year. That’s a... Read More...

Covid-19 Drives Q1 Growth of IT Infrastructure Products for Cloud Environments

FRAMINGHAM, MA – Vendor revenue from sales of IT infrastructure products (server, enterprise storage, and ethernet switch) for cloud environ... Read More...

FEATURES

MES-Based Process Control of Test Machines Using IPC-CFX

Lights-out manufacturing mandates a standard communication protocol. Electronics assemblers often assume an MES solution is all they need to gain complete cont... Read More...

Production Area Reorganization Pays Many Dividends

A new layout marries staff resources to immediate demand. In the fourth quarter 2019, the team at Milwaukee Electronics’ headquarters began looking at ways to ... Read More...

IoT Suffers from a Lack of Standards

What the electronics industry must do to change that. Ed.: This is the seventh of an occasional series by the authors of the 2019 iNEMI Roadmap. This informati... Read More...