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Still considering off-shoring?
Leave a CommentChanging economics move contract assembly to North America In which direction are the economies of electronic production pushing the choice of manufacturing […]
Don’t Stock-up on Inventory!
Leave a CommentDoes your company’s stocking system look like your grandmother’s? One hundred years ago our great grandmothers stocked up for the winter by […]
Beyond RoHS
Leave a CommentThe RoHS requirement came into being as a way to remove potentially hazardous materials from coming into contact with people and from […]
Tags: RoHS
Why Lead-free RoHS Circuit Board Assemblies?
Leave a CommentThe Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive 2002/95/EC began as a European movement to decrease the deposition into the environment of known […]
Tags: lead-free, printed circuit boards, RoHS
“Boilerplate”
Leave a CommentBoilerplate is a good thing to have on the side of a steam locomotive but questionable in the engineering notes for a […]
Tags: printed circuit boards
Is Isola running scared?
Leave a CommentAlthough Isola had published the announcement quoted below, alluding to the termination of manufacturing FR406, they now seem to be backpedaling a […]
USTEK teams up with THOMASNET.com
Leave a CommentMaking a hard sell easier You cannot sell water in the desert unless the local prospectors know that you have it and […]
Tags: Custom components, Sales tools, ThomasNet
Effects of Shipment Terms and Conditions
Leave a CommentLike it or not we must import from offshore so shipment terms and conditions are increasingly important. Regardless of the economic and the […]
Tags: Conditions, Freight, International, Terms
As copper goes so go PCB prices
Leave a CommentWhere has the price of copper been, where is it going, and how does it affect us in the electronics industry? From […]
Oh my – Metal too?
Leave a CommentEven people who have been our PCB customers for 25 years can be surprised to learn that we are equally involved in […]