http://www.componentsengineering.com Fri, 17 May 2013 16:57:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://www.componentsengineering.com/white-papers/14-key-considerations-winning-design/ http://www.componentsengineering.com/white-papers/14-key-considerations-winning-design/#comments Mon, 22 Oct 2012 06:27:55 +0000 Webmaster http://www.componentsengineering.com/?p=3345 http://www.componentsengineering.com/white-papers/14-key-considerations-winning-design/feed/ 0 14 Key Considerations for the Winning Design – Douglas Alexander on EBN Generally speaking, the more thoroughly a manufacturing team develops a design concept, and the more qualified the thought process involved, the more likely the end product’s success in the marketplace. That’s why most of us who are involved in electronics manufacturing or R&D [...] http://www.componentsengineering.com/white-papers/design-tradeoffs-financial-sense/ http://www.componentsengineering.com/white-papers/design-tradeoffs-financial-sense/#comments Mon, 22 Oct 2012 06:27:07 +0000 Webmaster http://www.componentsengineering.com/?p=3343 http://www.componentsengineering.com/white-papers/design-tradeoffs-financial-sense/feed/ 0 Design Tradeoffs that Make Financial Sense – Douglas Alexander on EBN In response to my last article, 14 Key Considerations for the Winning Design , a reader named Waqasaltaf made the following statement with regard to design considerations: http://www.componentsengineering.com/white-papers/eu-rallies-reach-enforcement-troop/ http://www.componentsengineering.com/white-papers/eu-rallies-reach-enforcement-troop/#comments Mon, 22 Oct 2012 06:26:25 +0000 Webmaster http://www.componentsengineering.com/?p=3341 http://www.componentsengineering.com/white-papers/eu-rallies-reach-enforcement-troop/feed/ 0 EU Rallies REACH Enforcement Troop – Douglas Alexander on EBN In a series of articles on the Registration, Evaluation, and Analysis of Chemicals (REACH) published by myself and others for EBN and Velocity, there has been much information provided for understanding the basics of the legislation and the resources that can guide a company through [...] http://www.componentsengineering.com/white-papers/strategies-thirdparty-programming/ http://www.componentsengineering.com/white-papers/strategies-thirdparty-programming/#comments Mon, 22 Oct 2012 06:25:42 +0000 Webmaster http://www.componentsengineering.com/?p=3339 http://www.componentsengineering.com/white-papers/strategies-thirdparty-programming/feed/ 0 Strategies for using Third-Party Programming – Douglas Alexander on EBN When a company moves into volume production, the part-inventory requirements increase both in quantity and aggregated value. Some of the parts used are off-the-shelf components, while others are custom, or programmable, parts. While program code is being developed and tested, an engineering lab will often [...] http://www.componentsengineering.com/white-papers/rising-reach-compliance-costs-force-rethinking/ http://www.componentsengineering.com/white-papers/rising-reach-compliance-costs-force-rethinking/#comments Mon, 22 Oct 2012 06:25:00 +0000 Webmaster http://www.componentsengineering.com/?p=3337 http://www.componentsengineering.com/white-papers/rising-reach-compliance-costs-force-rethinking/feed/ 0 Rising REACH Compliance Costs may Force Rethinking – Douglas Alexander on EBN To date, there are a total of 84 chemical listings on the Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC) candidate list. The last thirteen additions were all carcinogenic, mutagenic, or toxic for reproduction. The target number by the end of 2012 is 136 substances. [...] http://www.componentsengineering.com/white-papers/itaide-safer-secure-supply-chains/ http://www.componentsengineering.com/white-papers/itaide-safer-secure-supply-chains/#comments Mon, 22 Oct 2012 06:24:12 +0000 Webmaster http://www.componentsengineering.com/?p=3335 http://www.componentsengineering.com/white-papers/itaide-safer-secure-supply-chains/feed/ 0 ITAIDE: Toward Safer, More Secure Supply Chains – Douglas Alexander on EBN It’s commonsense that the more one repeatedly does the same thing to complete a single task, the longer the job is going to take. If it were possible to identify every repetitive action and only do things once in order to achieve desired [...] http://www.componentsengineering.com/white-papers/degrees-counterfeiting-detection-prevention/ http://www.componentsengineering.com/white-papers/degrees-counterfeiting-detection-prevention/#comments Mon, 22 Oct 2012 06:23:26 +0000 Webmaster http://www.componentsengineering.com/?p=3333 http://www.componentsengineering.com/white-papers/degrees-counterfeiting-detection-prevention/feed/ 0 Six Degrees of Counterfeiting Detection & Prevention – Douglas Alexander on EBN In one of the recent articles I wrote, there was a comment regarding document security and embedded RFID tags. The questions related to how the recipient would know that the document had not been tampered with, even if the RFID tag was genuine. [...] http://www.componentsengineering.com/white-papers/voice-control-powering-distribution-efficiency/ http://www.componentsengineering.com/white-papers/voice-control-powering-distribution-efficiency/#comments Mon, 22 Oct 2012 06:22:38 +0000 Webmaster http://www.componentsengineering.com/?p=3331 http://www.componentsengineering.com/white-papers/voice-control-powering-distribution-efficiency/feed/ 0 Voice Control Powering Distribution Efficiency – Douglas Alexander on EBN Back in the 1980s, I was on a supplier audit mission and requested a review of a distributor’s warehouse system. I was taken to the back of a very large building, guided through secured double doors, and introduced to the unexpected. http://www.componentsengineering.com/white-papers/regular-inventory-audit-critical-success/ http://www.componentsengineering.com/white-papers/regular-inventory-audit-critical-success/#comments Mon, 22 Oct 2012 06:21:54 +0000 Webmaster http://www.componentsengineering.com/?p=3329 http://www.componentsengineering.com/white-papers/regular-inventory-audit-critical-success/feed/ 0 Why a Regular Inventory Audit is Critical for Success – Douglas Alexander on EBN In most manufacturing companies a hands-on, manual inventory audit is taken at least once a year and is therefore referred to as the “annual physical inventory.” Inventory-dependent businesses help maintain the integrity of the inventory by doing what is called a [...] http://www.componentsengineering.com/white-papers/strengthening-weakest-link-security/ http://www.componentsengineering.com/white-papers/strengthening-weakest-link-security/#comments Mon, 22 Oct 2012 06:21:13 +0000 Webmaster http://www.componentsengineering.com/?p=3327 http://www.componentsengineering.com/white-papers/strengthening-weakest-link-security/feed/ 0 Strengthening the Weakest Link: Security – Douglas Alexander on EBN When you absolutely need an overnight shipment from overseas, it can be difficult to know when you’ll actually get the ordered goods.