Could Fully Automated Warehouses Be Closer Than You Think?
By John Santagate IDC Blog More than 3 years ago, I wrote a IDC Community post, “Using Robots to Curb Labor Shortage in Chinese Manufacturing” highlighting a factory in China that replaced 90% of the people in the factory with automation and robots. In that case the workforce was reduced from 650 employees down to only 60 […]
Huawei Ranks First in IoT Platform Vendors in 2018, Based on Market Presence and Momentum, IHS Markit Says
In the new “IoT Platforms Vendor Scorecard” report from IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO), Huawei claimed the top spot, while Cisco Systems, Microsoft, and PTC rounded out the top four ranking. Alibaba, Amazon Web Services, General Electric, IBM and SAP are also covered in the report. “Huawei was the leading IoT platform vendor, based on its market-leading […]
Tempo Automation Expands Team
Tempo Automation, an electronics manufacturer for prototyping and low-volume production of printed circuit board assemblies, announces key milestones at year-end, highlighting company growth, expansion in key markets,and its mission to transform the way technology manufacturers bring newproducts to market by reaching new levels of speed, precision,and innovation. Printed circuit board assemblies(PCBA) are at the center […]
ViTrox Announces Its Exhibition in The Upcoming IPC APEX EXPO 2019 in San Diego, CA
PENANG MALAYSIA – January 2019 – ViTrox Technologies, an automated vision inspection solutions provider is going to exhibit in IPC APEX EXPO 2019 (Booth No: 3423), the largest event for electronics manufacturing in North America. The event will be held from 29th to 31st January 2019 at San Diego Convention Center as the schedule below: […]
Developing the Electronics Workforce through Academia-Industry Partnership
Much has been written about the need to attract new, young talent into the electronics manufacturing industry. Here in part one of this two-part interview, we speak with Rochester Institute of Technology professors about educating future engineers and equipment supplier ASM on making hands-on experience a differentiator. Former RIT students now working in industry also share their perspective.