EMSNOW catches up with John Magee, President Sales and Operations, and  Andy Barnett, Vice President of Business Development, at independent distributor Freedom. They share their insights into current market conditions at the beginning of ...

EMSNOW discusses the EMS industry in India with Vivek Khanna, CEO of INDIC EMS Electronics. Growth is continuing in 2025 at both the top level and with middle sector OEMs. It's a massive opportunity for the region and INDIC EMS is fully investe...

EMSNOW speaks with David Loftus, President and CEO of the Electronic Component Industry Association (ECIA) to help component customers better understand the nuances of lead times. Now that we are a few years past the supply chain disruptions fr...

EMSNOW learns about Austin, Texas based Cetec ERP’s unique cloud-based platform from Tanner Rogers, the company’s Senior Consultant. This is a platform designed for difficult manufacturing environments like EMS/PCBA and delivers an all-in-one S...

EMSNOW gets an update on White Horse Laboratories' expansion from CEO Mark Rinehart. Mark explains that his company has expanded globally in response to customer geographic strategies. They are also offering an expanded range of services that e...

EMSNOW discusses the challenges of using artificial intelligence in high-mix, low-volume manufacturing environments with Mycronic’s R&D Director AI Romain Roux. Romain observes that AI adoption in electronics manufacturing remains gradual, ...

EMSNOW discusses Delvitech’s inspection system platform with the company’s CEO Roberto Gatti. Delvitech will showcase its groundbreaking Horus system, an all-in-one AI native platform for both Automated Optical Inspection (AOI) and Solder Paste...

EMSNOW caught up with Kevin Clue, VP Global Sales, High Flex, Mycronic to learn about their record-breaking financial performance in 2024 and their latest solutions. Kevin explains Mycronic’s evolution over the past 6 or 7 years from focusing o...

EMSNOW concludes our Special Assignment podcast series on the global VTech CMS facilities with a tour of two buildings in the industrial park in Tecate Mexico. Eric describes his experience in detail beginning with an easy trip over the border ...

In this podcast, recorded in Hong Kong, Eric describes his visit to the VTech CMS NPI Centre, which houses 100+ engineers providing electrical, mechanical and software engineering expertise to customers. Launched in 2020, the NPI Center operate...

EMSNOW continues its travels with a stop in Dongguan, China. On special assignment for VTech's CMS division, EMSNOW focuses in this podcast on the VTech Science Park campus in China, and the company's manufacturing capabilities at this facility...

EMSNOW is on Special Assignment in Johor, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, touring the VTech CMS facility there. This podcast covers background on this largest EMS company that you likely haven't heard much about. The VTech Group operates in 14 countrie...

On this their final podcast of the 2024 Tour, the EMSNOW - in4ma team discusses their visit to Lacon Group in Karlsfeld, Germany. This self-described 'smart EMS integrator' focuses on low volume, complex systems, with facilities in Germany ...

The EMSNOW-in4ma team describes their tour of the impressive Zollner facility in Satu Mare, Romania. The two have visited several other Zollner facilities in previous Tours and offered some insights into how this family-owned EMS keeps customer...

EMSNOW talks with INDIC EMS’ Managing Director Vivek Khanna about his company’s aggressive plans for global growth. Vivek will be presenting at Electronica’s PCB Forum on the topic of India’s emergence as a global hardware manufacturing hub.

The EMSNOW-in4ma On Tour team attends a global corporate strategy meeting at Connect Group where Dieter also made a presentation. This podcast includes a brief history of this unique EMS company; then Dieter drills down into their capabilities,...

This episode of EMSNOW On Tour with in4ma, recorded in a hotel in Timișoara, Romania, begins with some background on the electronics industry in Romania and key historical events from Timișoara. The tour visited Kimball Electronics Romania and ...

After three flights and a three-hour drive, Eric and Dieter arrive in Romania for visits to two very different EMS facilities: Pantel Elektronik, a family-owned company based in Germany and Flex Romania. The two discuss their impressions, inclu...

Reporting from the airport on their way to Romania, Eric and Dieter discuss their visit with Teltonika EMS's facility in Vilnius, Lithuania. Teltonika began this EMS division in 2019 and has been rapidly expanding manufacturing capacity to both...

The 2024 edition of EMSNOW-in4ma On Tour will focus on Eastern European EMS. Eric and Dieter are in Lithuania where they discuss Dieter's earlier visit to EMS companies in Estonia: Tepcomp Oü, Ouman Estonia Oü, and InCap Estonia Oü. They then p...

EMSNOW catches up with Michael ‘Mitch’ Mitchell, White Horse Laboratories’ new Director of Quality, a new role within this growth-focused global testing company. Mitch came to White Horse from the customer side, with a deep background in aerosp...

David Schild of the PCBAA offers EMSNOW an update about the fast moving events impacting the PCB industry in the U.S. including the supply chain disruptions that are expected from the dockworkers’ strike, weather events, wars in Europe and the ...

EMSNOW learns about dispensing solutions provider Axxon Mycronic from Jeff Leal, Director of Business Development and Strategy. The discussion starts with background about the history of Axxon, which was originally a Chinese company and was acq...

EMSNOW queries Zedric Ochoa, President and Jayson Alfonso, EVP of Omega GTI about the evolution of this unique distributor. The discussion covers the company’s footprint in Silicon Valley and SE Asia, the journey from independent distributor to...

Oshri Cohen, CEO of AI-based software provider Cybord, explains to EMSNOW how this solution finds non-conforming material coming into the PCB manufacturing process. In the past year a lot has happened in this arena and Oshri outlines the trends...