Manufacturing teams have spent the last several years reacting to supply chain disruption. They know how to qualify a backup ...

Why does the supply chain that served you so well yesterday seem designed to end your company today? Don’t be surprised; that’s how nature works. Yesterday’s design is optimized for yesterday.

Artificial intelligence is everywhere these days. But what if it isn’t? I would guess that at least 50%, and probably closer to 70%, of the article pitches I receive these days involve AI. Most ...

One of the distinguishing characteristics that sets the electronics industry apart from others is the nature of its most critical resource: the human imagination. Simply put, high-tech companies live ...

For the past several months, supply chain issues have headlined the news, identifying a worldwide vulnerability that was magnified by the global pandemic. Dimensional Research, in their 2020 State of ...

In these challenging times, product value can also be measured, beyond cost and function, by the ability of a manufacturer to quickly make and ship to a customer. With components and labor still not ...

Supply chain design was once seen as an activity to be endured every few years — a strategic exercise that wasn’t tied to operations. Now, however, competitive companies are realizing that every ...

In the midst of the pandemic, Pantheon Design, a maker of industrial 3D printers from Vancouver, BC, suddenly found itself getting orders from factories in the Midwest, the center of heavy industries.

Charan Lalwani has held leadership positions at Amazon, and in 2018, he devised a groundbreaking network design that enabled the company to launch its “Amazon Shipping” product. Photo by Bjoern ...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a critical "by design" weakness in the Model Context Protocol's (MCP) architecture ...

Software that prioritizes security at its most foundational level means designing it with customer security as a key goal rather than a tacked-on feature. And that concept — secure by design — is ...