Strengthening the Semiconductor Supply Chain Through Supplier Diversity

SOURCE: SEMI Blog With diversity growing in importance in the semiconductor industry, companies across the supply chain are becoming more transparent with their diversity, inclusion and equity (DEI) initiatives, disclosing their Environment, Social, Governance (ESG) targets and including diversity Key Performance Indicators to keep employees, management, boards – and even investors – current on their progress. The […]

Matric Sees Yield Improvements with Pre-Reflow AOI

Matric Building

The more we inspect, the higher our yield, it’s that simple. Well perhaps it’s not that simple, but it seems that the addition of another inspection step in the middle of the SMT process can be a game changer if the experience of U.S. EMS company Matric Group is anything to go by.

California’s New Environment-Friendly Battery Recycling Regulations

Originally posted on TTI MarketEye Resource By Michael Kirschner, Design Chain Associates  California is the United States’ most populous state and the fifth largest economy in the world. Every year brings a plethora of new bills to California’s seemingly hyperactive Assembly and Senate, and every September the bills that make it to the governor’s desk have […]

Design & Manufacturing Montreal – Nov. 9-10

Two exclusive keynotes will highlight Design & Manufacturing Montréal this year as part of the two-day show from Nov. 9-10, featuring manufacturing’s top engineers, business leaders, disruptive companies, and innovative thinkers in the Québec area. Stewart Cramer, the Chief Manufacturing Officer of Next Generation Manufacturing Canada (NGen), and Charles Milliard, President and CEO of Fédération des Chambres de Commerce du Québec (FCCQ), will highlight Canada’s key role […]