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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

Pantone recently announced their colors of the year for 2021: Ultimate Gray, a soothing and shadowy steel, and Illuminating, a ...

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

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

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

Anna-Katrina Shedletsky April 7, 2020

Work from home tips for engineers that build things
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Work from home tips for engineers that build things

Anna-Katrina Shedletsky March 24, 2020

NPI failure analysis from anywhere: HQ, home, or the factory
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NPI failure analysis from anywhere: HQ, home, or the factory

For hardware engineers, remote work that would actually be productive seems impossible. How do you overcome the need to hunt ...

Leslie Williams March 2, 2020

Three trends driving electronics manufacturing in 2020
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Three trends driving electronics manufacturing in 2020

Anna-Katrina Shedletsky February 10, 2020

Best Practices: Maintain Control of your Production Yield with Control Panel
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Best Practices: Maintain Control of your Production Yield with Control Panel

Anna-Katrina Shedletsky November 4, 2019

Manufacturing Wastes 10% Of The GWP Every Year. Here’s Why.
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Manufacturing Wastes 10% Of The GWP Every Year. Here’s Why.

Making up more than half of the world’s total GWP at $40 Trillion, nothing about the goings on of the manufacturing ...

Anna-Katrina Shedletsky October 25, 2019

Manufacturing automation and AI might be here, but Industry 4.0 is still far off
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Manufacturing automation and AI might be here, but Industry 4.0 is still far off

The current social and economic issues surrounding manufacturing span everything from the ramifications for the American workforce to the internationa ...

Anna-Katrina Shedletsky September 9, 2019

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