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The Advantages of a China Plus One Supply Chain Strategy

Relying only on Chinese manufacturers may not be the best electronics supply chain strategy today. A China plus one strategy can help.

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How Digital Manufacturing Can Improve Your HMLV Outputs

Purchasing teams & supply chain professionals need flexibility to negotiate the intricacies of an HMLV strategy. Learn how digital manufacturing can help.

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The Nearshoring Trend: Will Mexico Win Over China?

In the last several years automotive giants like GM, Volkswagen, and Nissan have all shifted some manufacturing work South of the border.

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Altimade Fuses Design with Manufacturing

Taking a new design from concept to manufacturing can be difficult, and transferring files to the manufacturer can take unprecedented blocks of time.

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Guidance for Orders Placed During Lunar New Year in Q1'22

We're providing a Supply Chain and Product update on what to expect in the first quarter of 2022, so your teams can meet their product delivery deadlines.

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Minimizing Production Disruption During the 2022 Lunar New Year

The Lunar New Year will begin on February 1st, 2022, catalyzing the most significant annual mass migration of people on the planet.

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Alternative Part Sourcing

MacroFab empowers companies with new tools to proactively manage risks when relying on parts that can go out of stock at a moment's notice.

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Tolerances Stack Up

Electrical and mechanical components have production tolerances within the design with variance over their manufacturing life.

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Is Cloud Manufacturing the Future of the Industry?

Cloud Manufacturing enables hardware OEMs to respond to changing market conditions faster with lower total costs than traditional contract manufacturing.

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Supply Chain Security in 2021

The SuperMicro story--whether you believe it or not--is a warning that supply chain security is imperative. Are you prepared for a security attack?

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Webinar Recap: DFM Beyond the Digital Domain

We co-hosted a webinar with Autodesk to discuss design for manufacturing practices that can eliminate multiple board re-spins and reduce design revisions.

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Supply Chain Critical Components

A single key supply chain component shortage puts manufacturing in a line-down situation.

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Avoiding Electronics Supply Chain Delays in Q1

We may be heading back to the future: Supply chain delays in 2021 are starting to look a lot like 2018. Find out how to minimize the impact now.

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MacroFab in 2020 and Beyond

We hold a strong belief that manufacturing should work as a cloud resource.

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Impact of Lunar New Year and COVID Vaccines on PCBA Lead Times

As the holiday season quickly approaches, we wanted to provide an update on what you can expect through the end of 2020 and into the first quarter of 2021.

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Top 10 Reasons Your Production Build Could Fail

After designing and prototyping a system for proof of operation across all variances, the last milestone is to execute a successful production build.

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Webinar Recap: Building Supply Chain Resiliency

On May 12, we talked with Fictiv CEO, Dave Evans during a webinar hosted by industry journalist Philip Stoten about building supply chain resilience.

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Platform Update: MacroFab Expands Digital Manufacturing Platform

This expansion will accommodate the changing business needs for OEMs with improved tools and a flexible set of options for every stage of production.

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Digital Manufacturing Fosters Creative Solutions

We highlight two cases where companies used our factory network distribution to manage the challenges surrounding manufacturing in a global pandemic.

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Recover From Supply Chain Disruptions By Planning Ahead

Learn how to diversify your electronics supply chain through advanced planning. This short blog post will help you plan out a long-term strategy.

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Supply Chain Management for Electronics Manufacturing

Choreograph with your team and CM to achieve smooth electronics logistics planning. Our short blog will provide you tips and tricks.

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Procurement Strategies for Reduced Costs

There are several procurement strategies that exist to reduce the recurring full factory costs (FFC) associated with manufacturing technical systems.

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Coronavirus Manufacturing Update

Long term impact of the coronavirus is a moving target. Please continue to visit this page to get the latest updates as we learn more.

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Is China Still the Best Answer for Electronics Manufacturing?

New N. American manufacturing solutions are helping resolve issues and mitigate supply chain risks. Do you still need Chinese electronics manufacturing?

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