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The conference takes place Rosemont, IL Sept. 25 to 29, in Rosemont (Chicago), IL.
The deadline for abstracts is Feb. 7. Abstracts can be submitted by clicking here.
Papers should describe significant results from experiments or emphasize new techniques and contain technical, economic or test data. Material should be original, unpublished and noncommercial.
SMTA provides a $1,000 awards for papers judged best of conference, best of proceedings and best international.
Steve Hunter will be responsible for all manufacturing operations including logistics, inventory and purchasing procedures and policies.
"Hunter's past experience and overall knowledge of global logistics, inventory control and operations is exceptional," said Neil MacRaild, Americas general manager, in a statement.
Hunter has 15 years of logistics experience, most recently as global supply chain manager for a major medical device company.
If accurate, the EMS firms most likely to suffer would be Celestica (>10% of revenue comes from Cisco), Solectron (16%) and Jabil (15%).
Cisco forecast Q2 sales of $6.03 billion to $6.15 billion, lower than the Wall Street consensus of $6.21 billion.
Cisco's finished goods inventory increased during the last quarter to $714 million from $656 million. The company's book-to-bill is below 1.0, the mark of future expansion, Whitmore reported.
"[W]e expect soft trends in the communications infrastructure end market (for EMS vendors) to extend well into 2005. As such, we remain cautious on those EMS vendors with significant exposure to this end market," Whitmore said.
Solectron appears "most vulnerable" to softness at Cisco, Whitmore said.
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