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5 Ways to De-Risk Production Ramp in 2021
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5 Ways to De-Risk Production Ramp in 2021

As the world begins to return to normal, brands and manufacturers will have to figure out how to manage this ...

Chris Li, former Amazon Engineering Lead May 24, 2021

Screws vs glues in product design, assembly, and repair
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Screws vs glues in product design, assembly, and repair

Instrumental May 20, 2021

The future of automated optical inspection systems
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The future of automated optical inspection systems

Instrumental May 6, 2021

Getting back to the factory floor in 2021
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Getting back to the factory floor in 2021

Instrumental April 2, 2021

Choosing the best CAD software for product design
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Choosing the best CAD software for product design

Instrumental March 24, 2021

Manufacturing Terms Every Mechanical Engineer Should Know
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Manufacturing Terms Every Mechanical Engineer Should Know

Instrumental February 23, 2021

Pantone and Plastic: The Challenges of Color Matching in Product Design and Manufacturing
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Pantone and Plastic: The Challenges of Color Matching in Product Design and Manufacturing

Chris Li, former Amazon Engineering Lead December 29, 2020

WeChat ban may cut a vital lifeline to Chinese factories for U.S. electronics brands
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WeChat ban may cut a vital lifeline to Chinese factories for U.S. electronics brands

Originally published in Forbes. For many U.S.-based engineering teams who assemble their products in China or greater Asia, WeChat is ...

Anna-Katrina Shedletsky August 20, 2020

Heroism in Electronics Manufacturing Adds Risk without Reward
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Heroism in Electronics Manufacturing Adds Risk without Reward

Anna-Katrina Shedletsky

Due to COVID-19, manufacturing will experience five years of innovation in the next 18 months
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Due to COVID-19, manufacturing will experience five years of innovation in the next 18 months

Anna-Katrina Shedletsky May 19, 2020

Manufacturing during COVID-19: How a Fortune 100 electronics company maintains oversight
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Manufacturing during COVID-19: How a Fortune 100 electronics company maintains oversight

COVID-19 has thrown a wrench into traditional oversight practices in electronics manufacturing. Instead of traveling to factories across the globe ...

Leslie Williams April 20, 2020

Builds without engineers: How 5 customers thrive without factory travel
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Builds without engineers: How 5 customers thrive without factory travel

For years, the electronics industry has relied on putting engineers on planes to travel to far off factories as a ...

Anna-Katrina Shedletsky April 7, 2020

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