IPC President and CEO John Mitchell on Talent Shortages at APEX 2023 – EMSNOW & SCOOP On Location
Talent shortages remain one of the most difficult challenges for the EMS sector and could even threaten to stall re-shoring to geographies like the USA and Western Europe. Ahead of his keynote and the launch of his book ‘Fire Your Hiring Habits’, Philip Stoten talked to IPC President and CEO John Mitchell about the issue […]
Silicon Valley layoffs are a boon for tech-hungry farm equipment makers, Reports Reuters
SOURCE: REUTERS Big agricultural and construction equipment manufacturers in the American Midwest are on a mission to lure Silicon Valley tech workers who have been caught up in a wave of hiring freezes and layoffs, executives told Reuters. Mass layoffs at major tech firms have opened the talent pipeline for Illinois-based Deere & Co. (DE.N) – the […]
ECIA GIPC Publishes Report on Paperless Certificate of Compliance Initiative
Pilot program phase one completed Atlanta— The Global Industry Practices Committee (GIPC) has published a report outlining the results of a two-year initiative to create a streamlined process to digitally exchange manufacturer Certificate of Compliance documents. Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) agreed to participate in the pilot project with Digi-Key. They began with the manufacturers’ certificate […]
Component Counterfeiting: On the Verge of a Future Without Fakes?
SOURCE: TTI MarketEye Blog By Murray Slovick For all its high-tech advances, the semiconductor industry has been extremely vulnerable to counterfeits, which pose an estimated $200 billion risk per year to the global electronics supply chain. Global chip shortages make this risk even greater. A shortage of components will push purchasers towards the grey market and […]