SUDBURY, MA – Delo posted sales of €182 million (US$195 million) in fiscal year 2022, up 9% year-over-year.  

Have big box stores learned lessons that can be applied by electronics manufacturers?

One of the big takeaways from the Future Compute conference on the campus of MIT in May was a definitive “yes!”

There, we heard about how some of the large retail chains like Target use software, hardware and data in all kinds of customer experiences.

Almost every employee has handheld devices tracking the billions of sensors and cameras in use across some 1,900 stores and 50 regional distribution centers. At each store, it runs about 100 different software applications. They look at traffic trends: When is the peak? When is the lag? And how can they be modulated?

Now consider an electronics manufacturing operation. There could be hundreds of operators, thousands of PCBs, millions of components, billions of solder joints, each one needing traceability.

MUNICH — To better support IPC’s European members’ interests, the association formed IPC Electronics Europe.

SAN JOSE – Full turnkey production and supply chain management is now underway at the Omega EMS facility here for Eguana Technologies products.

UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA – PG Technoplast signed a memorandum of understanding with the government of Maharashtra to invest Rs 3.15 billion (US$40.7 million) in the state, according to reports.

WESTLAKE, OH – Nordson Corp. reported fiscal second quarter Advanced Technology Solutions sales were nearly $319 million, an increase of 9.7% year-over-year.

PEACHTREE CITY, GA – The PCEA Conferences Task Group today announced the technical program for PCB West 2022, featuring nearly 50 presentations and more than 110 hours of in-depth electronics engineering training.

LOUISVILLE, KY – Sypris Electronics reported first quarter revenue was $9 million, an increase of 32.4% year-over-year.

KUALA LUMPUR – Kobay Technology posted revenue rose 184.1% year-over-year and 7.8% sequentially to RM100.1 million (US$22.8 million) in the fiscal third quarter.

HONG KONG – VTech Holdings reported flat fiscal 2022 revenue of $2.37 billion. Higher sales in North America were insufficient to offset lower sales in Europe, Asia Pacific and other regions.

MILPITAS, CA — SEMI and the UCLA Center for Heterogeneous Integration and Performance Scaling (UCLA CHIPS) won a $300,000 grant from the US Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to produce a roadmap for advancing heterogeneous integration and advanced packaging technologies in the US.

VEJLE, DENMARK – Electronics manufacturer GPV reported record first quarter revenue of more than DKK 1 billion (US$143 million), up 36.2% year-over-year.