Growing use of AI in design and inspection workflows introduces internal security risks, as improper tools may expose sensitive data and compromise compliance.

Security has become a major issue for the industry over the past couple decades. Long gone are the times when information could be shared without concern that it would be intercepted, copied or stolen during the course of “normal” operations. Communications technology has changed and evolved, and new threats have emerged. The regrettable result is that security is front-and-center of any company’s day-to-day concerns.

Understand the landed cost before turning procurement over to EMS.

A good EMS partner brings real value. It manages assembly labor, SMT placement, inspection, test, rework, box build, documentation, scheduling and production discipline. That is what it is paid to do. EMS companies exist because OEMs need manufacturing execution without necessarily running a factory. In the standard EMS model, the EMS may also handle procurement, supply chain coordination and material sourcing on behalf of the OEM. That is normal. It is also convenient.

Why the industry needs a single loud voice.

There’s an old saying in Washington: “Policy is written by the people who show up.” And right now – at a moment when national security, supply-chain stability and technological leadership are hanging in the balance – we need people showing up who understand the stakes of North American electronics manufacturing.

A progressive, automated verification approach enables engineers to analyze hundreds of high-speed channels in hours instead of days.

Most verification tools and workflows in the market today are designed to analyze only a handful of links at a time. This creates a dangerous gap: when you can verify only a small subset of channels, the chance is real you'll miss the specific links that have critical signal integrity issues. Traditional post-layout verification workflows simply don't scale when dealing with 100+ channels that require comprehensive compliance verification.