The Nearshoring Trend: Will Mexico Win Over China?
Nearshoring to Mexico is garnering new interest within manufacturing communities. In the last several years automotive giants like GM, Volkswagen,…
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.…
Guidance for Orders Placed During Lunar New Year in Q1'22
As the new year is well underway, we wanted to provide a Supply Chain and Product update for our valued customers on what you can expect in the first…
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. Millions of…
Alternative Part Sourcing
Engineering and Supply Chain teams at companies developing hardware products can’t seem to catch a break. From trade wars to pandemic lockdowns and…
Tolerances Stack Up
Electrical and mechanical components are not absolute in their attributes. They have production tolerances within the design with variance over their…
Is Cloud Manufacturing the Future of the Industry?
Cloud Manufacturing is the next great advance in lean production. In many of the same ways that cloud computing enabled software companies to be more…
Supply Chain Security in 2021
When the Supermicro story broke a year ago, the electronics world was split into two – people who believed the story was true and those who deemed it…
Webinar Recap: DFM Beyond the Digital Domain
In case you missed it, we co-hosted a webinar with Autodesk to discuss how adapting some overlooked design for manufacturing practices can help you…
Supply Chain Critical Components
A successful manufacturing implementation of a new system project needs a plan for supply chain component dependencies during the development. Supply…
Avoiding Electronics Supply Chain Delays in Q1
Remember the wildly unpredictable lead times for electronics a few years ago due to component shortages? Buckle up: supply chain delays are brewing.…
MacroFab in 2020 and Beyond
For most of us, 2020 has been a challenging year, personally and professionally. The inability to gather with our families, balancing…