Engineering Tomorrow, Today: An Interview with Irene Sterian, Director, Technology and Innovation Development at Celestica
Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) worldwide face the common challenge of sustaining their innovation efforts as the cost of developing new silicon chipsets keeps rising. In this post from Celestica, Irene Sterian, P. Eng., Technology Business Partner shares some thoughts about advancements in fields like microelectronics and ruggedization that make it possible for OEMs to overcome that challenge…
ECIA Releases Latest The Channel Channel Podcast with Ed Smith, CEO of SMTC
Atlanta – ECIA’s latest podcast episode is a timely interview with Edward Smith, CEO of SMTC Corporation, a mid-sized provider of end-to-end electronic manufacturing services. Smith has a unique perspective on the electronic components industry, having served for many years on the distribution side of the negotiating table, and now in a leadership position on the […]
Three Workforce Lessons from Manufacturing Plants Around the World
By John Mitchell, IPC president and CEO The U.S. economy has remained surprisingly resilient, and the result has been that the country’s unemployment has continued to inch lower. It’s now at 3.5 percent, the lowest rate since 1969, and that rate could go even lower as the U.S. boasts more than 7 million job openings. […]