IPC Concerned Over EEE Criteria in EU Sustainability Regulation

By Kelly Scanlon, Director, Environment, Health and Safety Policy & Research, IPC On September 27, IPC submitted comments to the Platform on Sustainable Finance, an expert advisory group of the European Commission, expressing concerns over proposed criteria affecting the manufacturing of electric and electronic equipment (EEE) under the EU Taxonomy Regulation. IPC worked with its Environment and Health Strategic Management […]

IPC Skills Challenge Competitions Return to India Region

To commemorate IPC India’s decade of service to the electronics manufacturing industry, the IPC India team will hold skills challenge competitions and member networking events starting this November across different parts of the country. Winners of regional competitions will gather in Bengaluru and New Delhi in August 2022 to compete in PCB design, hand soldering […]

Gartner CFO Survey Shows 60% of Organizations Experienced Wage Inflation in 2Q21

Seventy-Four Percent of CFOs Concerned with Input Price Inflation’s Impact on Profitability A survey of 111 CFOs in July 2021 revealed that 60% of organizations experienced wage inflation in 2Q21, nearly double the amount compared to the previous quarter, according to Gartner, Inc. Nearly three in four CFOs polled cited the risk of lower profitability […]

EMS@C-LEVEL with Jackie Mattox from Women in Electronics

Does a disruptive climate help or hinder women in the workplace? Has diversity improved in electronics? How’s the manufacturing industry doing and what else can be done? These are just a few of the questions I put to Jackie Mattox, who founded Women in Electronics a little over four years ago with group of twenty […]

Master Electronics and OnlineComponents.com release millions of SnapEDA models to help engineers design electronics faster

Engineers can now find & download free symbols, footprints and 3D models from SnapEDA to accelerate their designs SAN FRANCISCO, CA —Master Electronics and Onlinecomponents.com — both leading global distributors of electronic components — are announcing the release of millions of SnapEDA computer-aided design (CAD) models on their respective platforms. As the pioneering search engine […]