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Conflict Minerals and the Electronics Supply Chain

The SEC’s new rule regarding corporate conflict minerals reporting will affect everyone in the electronics channel as the high cost of reporting translates to higher pricesread more

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Avoiding the gray market for electronic components

Steve Martin, Components Direct With numerous points of entry into the supply chain, the so-called “gray market” makes part traceability nearly impossible and increases the risk of bad parts entering...

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Hot Consumer Devices Push New Design Innovations

Todd Traylor, N.F. Smith & Associates Next-generation component capabilities are driving the newest trends in consumer electronics; here’s one distributor’s take on the latest developments from...

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Distributors Add System-Level Training To Their Services

Avnet’s Tim Barber talks about the changing training and education environment and its growing importance to today’s customers. read more

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RoHS recast rules still ‘under the radar’

Distributors selling products into Europe say it’s still quiet on the customer front when it comes to meeting RoHS 2 rules that took effect in January; N.F. Smith and Associates’ Matt Harztell weighs...

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Meeting supply chain challenges

Avnet Electronics Marketing’s Lalit Wadhwa talks about the road to building resilient supply chains read more

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Combating counterfeit components: what buyers need to know

By Steve Martin Education, awareness and training on counterfeit components and the best sources of supply are the keys to keeping counterfeits out of your supply chainread more

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Q&A with Future Electronics’ Lindsley Ruth

Future Electronics is using its focus on people and inventory—and its penchant for the complexity that comes with globalization—as a pathway to growth and opportunity in 2013read more

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5 Questions With: Ed Smith, President, Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas

Avnet’s Ed Smith talks about the outlook for the electronics industry, the “regionalization” of electronics manufacturing, and key trends discussed at this year’s Electronics Distribution Show in Las...

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Globalization, product obsolescence top supply chain challenges

Executive Q&A: Distributors respond with tools to help engineers, procurement professionals meet increasingly complex electronics supply chain, says Components Direct’s Steve Martinread more

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Five Questions with Glenn Smith, Mouser Electronics

Glenn Smith talks about key changes in the electronics supply chain during his 40-year tenure at Mouser Electronicsread more

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5 Questions with Paul Buckley, President, Newark element14

Newark’s Paul Buckley gives his industry outlook for the rest of 2013 and talks about the changing voice—and needs—of the electronics customer in this executive interviewread more

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5 Questions with Mark Larson, Digi-Key Corp.

Digi-Key expects a record year as investments in global expansion and a sharper focus on production business bear fruit read more

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Engineers, buyers need the independent channel

By Anton Wurr Customers rely on the independent channel, but they must take care in choosing the right distribution partnerread more

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5 Questions With: Michael Knight, TTI, Inc.

TTI stays the course as economic challenges persist and technology drives change in the electronic components industryread more

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Smaller and faster components fuel the IP&E market

The interconnect, passive, and electromechanical market remains solid. Avnet’s Dave Jakubowski talks about Avnet’s strategy to bring IP&E capabilities to its customers.read more

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5 Questions With: Frank Flynn, Sager Electronics

Top 50 distributor Sager Electronics is focused on adding lines, building its power supply business, and sharpening its focus on medical, industrial, and instrumentation customersPublication Inforead more

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5 Questions With: Riad Nizam, Master Electronics

Global Purchasing Staff Top 50 Distributor Master Electronics points to electrical vehicles and the semiconductor equipment market as bright spots in the electronics supply chain this yearread more

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5 Questions With: Russel Dorwart, PEI-Genesis

This specialty distributor of high-reliability interconnect products is focused on new end markets and expansion into China to combat a slow-growth marketread more

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Development Kits Present New Market Needs

Design engineers now expect supportive solutions through the design cycle, not just a variety of components.Supply Chain Trendsread more

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