Distributors expand warehouse facilities, enhance web capabilities
Electronics distributors are enlarging distribution facilities or building new ones to attract new customers and better serve existing ones. Many electronics distributors are adding warehouse space, investing in automation equipment and enhancing their website capabilities to make it easier for buyers and engineers to find and purchase components. While there…
Force that binds innovation together
In this article, Electronics Sourcing’s editor, Jon Barrett, explores the concept of innovation and discovers a new UK-based service designed to underpin the process. As a product designer I have had the great fortune of playing a role in many engineering projects which could be described as innovative. For example,…
Streamline supply chain administration
Mouser Electronics’ Mark Patrick, explains how the company’s order automation capabilities help buyers manage their supply chain process. Commerce today is increasingly conducted electronically. Connecting business-to-business buyer and supplier enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications can significantly streamline financial, procurement and supply chain processes. ERP systems represent the organisational hub of…
Swindon manufacturer announces net zero ambitions
As the COP26 climate conference reaches its midway point, a Swindon manufacturing firm has unveiled its own ambitions to reduce its carbon emissions and reach net zero. For the past 42 years, IEW – Industrial Electronic Wiring Ltd – has been producing bespoke power cables, PCB’s and box builds for…
Shortages: a good problem to have
ECIA president and CEO, David Loftus, reminds buyers that the current shortage problems, which will subside, are less damaging than the pandemic’s original dire predictions Supply chain professionals’ searing memory of 2021 will be their efforts dealing with shortages. The frantic exercise to secure components and overcome shipping bottlenecks has…
Supply chain perfect storm
Lansdale Semiconductor’s president, R Dale Lillard, reminds readers that in today’s uncertain world, JIT manufacturing will need re-tooling to provide sufficient redundancy Since the 1980s manufacturers have enjoyed years of just-in-time manufacturing using outside suppliers. This let them reduce inventories and shorten cycle times for improved quality. They also discontinued…
