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Cause and Defect: How the Manufacturing Operations Dashboard Revolutionizes Root Cause Analysis

The Manufacturing Operations Dashboard Revolution Picture this: You’re an operations leader in the electronics manufacturing industry, and you&# ...

The future of automated optical inspection systems

AOI or automated optical inspection systems were first developed in the early 1990s at a time when electronics manufacturing was ...

Finding and fixing glue and adhesives issues with Instrumental

 In product development, glues and other adhesives represent the great solution to, and often source of, many manufacturing problems. ...

Finding and fixing connector issues with Instrumental

Connector issues are a common problem for hardware engineering teams. Too often, these issues are found during functional tests late ...

Failure Analysis Methods for Product Design Engineers: Key Questions and Corrective Actions (Part 3)

In part 1 and part 2 of this failure analysis series, we discussed where failures come from and what tools ...

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Company news

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Instrumental Launches “Self Hosted AWS” Solution for Electronics Industry – A letter from our CEO

When I first started Instrumental in 2015, I was told by many brands and manufacturers: “There is no way we ...

Meta accelerates NPI and saves over 900 engineering weeks across 7 programs

Virtual reality and augmented reality are the next frontier for Meta, the world’s largest social technology company. That’s why Meta created Reali ...

Instrumental joins NVIDIA Metropolis to enable fully automated defect detection for complex electronics assembly

Palo Alto — 04/17/2024 — Instrumental, the leading manufacturing AI and data platform, today announced it has joined NVIDIA Metropolis, a partne ...

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Teardowns

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Change Notice: MacBook Air M2 Teardown

The team for the MacBook Air M2 teardown included ex-Apple PDE Tobias Harrison-Noonan, ex-Apple PDE Will Greenbaum, and Product Design ...

Change Notice: We opened the Xbox Series X to see how cool it is

Originally released in November 2001, Microsoft’s Xbox gaming console was the company’s answer to fierce competition from the Sony Playstation ...

Change Notice: We opened the Sonos Roam alongside its lead designer

The first boomboxes were introduced in the 70s unlocking the ability to share your music with friends outside. As we ...

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Webinars & Videos

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The 2022 State of Mass Production in Electronics Manufacturing

In a recent survey, Instrumental asked more than 300 engineering and operations leaders in electronics manufacturing to share their experience ...

Shortening development timelines with better adhesion materials and technology

A technical discussion on the most successful adhesion best practices and techniques for electronics manufacturing. ...

Webinar | The State Of New Product Introductions

How antiquated NPI workflows put a $1 trillion market at risk in 2020 and what top brands are doing to ...

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Whitepapers

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How to Mitigate Risk 
and Streamline Factory Moves

Embrace the future of the manufacturing industry and implement solutions that allow you to navigate change with ease. ...

The 2022 State of Mass Production

Today, reports show that mentions of “supply chain” in earnings calls by Fortune 500 companies rose 412% in just two years. Tens of millions have ...

ABI Research: Manufacturing Optimization — Improve and Automate Digital Transformation at Scale

Manufacturers often adopt new technologies to reduce waste, increase margins, and produce ...

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