Most procurement teams track electronics tariffs and metals tariffs as separate line items managed by separate people. Section 301 lives with the component sourcing group and Section 232 lives with the structural and mechanical team. Problems surfaces when imported products …
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Industrial & Controls Electronics
Section 301 and Section 232 tariff stacking: when your industrial electronics sit inside steel enclosures
Industrial electronics tariff exposure compounds across 15-year product lifecycles
Consumer electronics have roughly a two-year replacement cycle. A tariff on a smartphone chipset affects one generation of product and the next design cycle can source around it. Industrial electronics operate on a fundamentally different timeline. A programmable logic controller …
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Tariff stacking inside automation cells: when six HTS codes from four countries build one work station
An automation cell is not one product. It is five, six, sometimes eight distinct components sourced from different manufacturers in different countries, integrated on a factory floor, and validated as a single functional unit. A robot arm from Fanuc …
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Section 301 tariffs on robotics: complete Chinese systems vs. component-level duty exposure
Chinese robotics manufacturers are selling six-axis articulated arms at 30-50% below comparable Japanese and European systems. Companies like Estun, STEP Electric, and EFORT have closed the performance gap enough to win evaluations at price-sensitive OEMs and contract manufacturers – …
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Risk assessment frameworks for OEM decision-making in EMS manufacturing supply chains
For electronics OEM manufacturers, selecting the right electronics contract EMS manufacturer is pivotal to ensuring product quality, supply chain efficiency, and market competitiveness. Procurement and engineering executives at large, mid-sized, and specialty OEMs – ranging from global leaders like Panasonic …
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Sourcing energy grid transformers and power management systems with competitive manufacturing supply chains
At least five large-scale blackouts occurred in the United States over the past 45 years. Three of these occurred in the past 15 years. According to the US Department of Energy (DOE), power outages and interruptions cost Americans at least …
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Costing modeler sourcing, manufacturing and assembly of electric vehicles: Tesla Model Y
The amount of technology and electronics in new vehicles is growing each year. From sophisticated vehicle electronic control units (ECU) to manage everything to all electric vehicles (EV), plus the vast array of ever-increasing functional technology and hardware. Take into …
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Acquiring success: The latest trends in contract electronics mergers and acquisitions
Many contract manufacturers in the hyper-competitive middle market contract electronics industry continue to face increasing pressures on various fronts. Whether from problems associated with finding customers, followed by challenges retaining and growing those customer programs (most top-line industry growth is …
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Buying automated conformal coating systems, used equipment for quality circuit board assembly manufacturing
Electronics products can be compromised by moisture, shock, change in altitude and various other changes in product environment. Conformal coatings (urethane, acrylic, silicon, varnish…) and systems, whether for small builds or high-volume and in-line processing, help combat against product quality …
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Malaysia chip industry economic forecast 2022 – 2032
The East Asia financial crisis which was brought out by the US 2008 housing financial crisis, and while Vietnam and Indonesia both expanded manufacturing capabilities rapidly in the 1970s and 80s and 90s, some time around 2010-11 Malaysia stopped moving …
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