If newly-minted MBAs want a good shot at quick employment and salary jumps, they may want to turn their aspirations toward factory floors and away from trading floors. A survey of more than 3,000 graduate business students around the world, released Wednesday by the Graduate Management Admission Council, shows that grads seeking jobs in the manufacturing and healthcare industries were most likely to get early offers this spring. While the healthcare business boom is well-documented, the growi…

U.S. manufacturing is at a major turning point. The quality and cost battles we waged to counter 1980s “Japan Inc.” are mostly behind us. The China offshoring paradigm is “equalizing” itself out: they are finding that success has its own inevitable costs. To continue readying this article, please click here. Tags:Domestic Manufacturing, Offshoring

If you ever wondered about a manufacturing model that works, look no further. The following article about the economic case of reshoring explains the Sonic Manufacturing model perfectly. Tags: Manufacturing, Reshoring

Finding the right partner with the right offering is vital to a company’s success. This is a an insightful synopsis on what we see in our business every day. Executives in the EMS industry today are finding their roles changing from a pure sales person or a marketing person to more of a consultant to the audience described in the article. Truly a well written article.

Gary Nevison and the folks in the element14 community are doing their part to educate the electronics community about the new requirements of RoHS 2, an update to the European Restrictions on Hazardous Substances (RoHS), which took effect January 2.