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A successful 2012 for strategic electronics suppliers
SIPLACE machines similar to those in Zollner's new Silicon Valley locationWhat does 2012 have in store for electronics-manufacturing suppliers? For software and capital-equipment suppliers...
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Strange Bedfellows in Sustainability: Facilities and IT
Example of data center designed with sustainability in mindBy Kim Allen, PhD, TFI Environment Consultant Applying a sustainability lens to business has resulted in strange bedfellows: the Facilities...
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Forecasting the Future at APEX and Beyond
Jim Herring, Interim President and CEO of the IPC, the trade association behind APEX ExpoA highlight at this week’s IPC APEX Expo in San Diego was the panel “Gazing into the Crystal Ball,” which...
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Strategies for 2050: Forward Thinking for the Industry
About this post’s title: you might think it’s ludicrous to think about planning for 2050 when the quarter is 2 weeks from closing and you’ve yet to meet all of your targets. In our most recent post, we...
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“Fair Trade” Electronics — A Viable Idea?
International FAIRTRADE Certification Mark: Applied to electronics in the future?By Matt Chanoff, TFI Chief Economist, and Pamela J. Gordon, TFI President Most electronics companies are simply waiting...
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Start-ups’ Supply Chain Needs: Flash vs. Substance
"Kar" from KleenSpeed Technologies Inc.We’ve been interviewing electronics-industry executives about the minimum annual customer revenue that various sizes of EMS (electronics manufacturing services)...
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Ignore at Your Own Risk: Supply Chain Disruption Assessments
By Mike Kirschner, TFI Environment Consultant and President of Design Chain Associates, LLC Nylon 12 Explosion at German Chemical Plant Evonik In April I participated in the Society of Automotive...
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Toughest Supply-Chain Issues: Are you up for the challenge?
Location of TFI Think Tank on Supply Chain, Oct. 9, 2012If you could spend a day hashing out five tough supply-chain issues with executive at OEMs, manufacturing suppliers, and material suppliers,...
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Sustainability = Change
by Pamela J. Gordon, TFI Founder and President, and Guest Contributor Roxanne Kichar Consider this scenario: Your CEO gets religion on sustainable processes and products – both for cost savings and...
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Your Supply-Chain Job Just Got 5X Easier
Imagine this scenario: The supply-demand gap has been resolved, so you no longer have to spend good money on excess components or on emergency purchasing and shipments. Since counterfeit components and...
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Re-Defining ‘Design-for-Environment’
By Harvey Stone, Technology Forecasters Environmental Consultant; Co-Developer, DfE Online(TM) Training Program Words matter. Times change. Meanings evolve. As such, it’s important to re-define...
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Do Customers Know More about Your Supply Chain than You Do?
A 2012 Nielsen study revealed that 2/3 of consumers globally prefer to buy products and services from companies that “give back to society,” with 30% of them willing to pay more for goods from...
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Visioning a Better Supply Chain: What the Think Tank Thought
by Pamela J. Gordon, TFI Founder and President To be honest, last week’s Executive Think Tank on Supply Chain surpassed even my high expectations for the executives’ courageous solutions to complex...
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“Honey, We’re out of Tantalum and Running Low on Zinc”
Zinc: the 4th most consumed metal By Harvey Stone, TFI Environmental Consultant (co-developer of DfE Online(TM)) Recently, 76% of executive respondents to an Ernst & Young survey said they...
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Electronic Design Firms Get a ‘C’ in DfE
TFI’s Research with 39 North American Electronics Design Firms, Nov. 2012 by Pamela J. Gordon, TFI Founder and President This month we asked executives at North American electronics-design firms (and...
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Apple’s USA Manufacturing Move: Sentimental or Serious?
by Pamela J. Gordon, TFI Founder and President Apple Inc.’s plans to manufacture Mac computers in the USA is a step in the right direction. See last Friday’s Bloomberg article. Is this move a tip of...
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Cheaper Electronics Manufacturing: Mexico or Israel?
By Pamela J. Gordon, TFI Founder and President Last week TFI held a Think Tank on Supply Chain event near Tel Aviv, followed by a Design for Environment (DfE) training — hosted by ILTAM. One of the...
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IPC’s APEX EXPO Event: What would you tell your CEO?
Pamela J. Gordon will give the Keynote at IPC's APEX EXPO CEO Platinum event by Pamela J. Gordon, TFI President and Founder If you had an hour-long audience with your company’s CEO, what would you most...
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Supply-chain & Sustainability Insight for 2013: What We’re Reading (III)
TFI’s third published reading list was inspired by Superstorm Sandy. The disastrous 2012 storm was a clear reminder that global products’ supply chains and customers are at the mercy of increasing...
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Denial in the Electronics Industry = Disaster
I suppose that each of us denies some facts or likelihoods that we’d rather not face. But when much of the electronics industry denies a few strategically important factors, it’s time to raise them up...
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