Editorial archive;

Comments - PXI still leads the way (08 May 2012)
Welcome to this issue of EM&T’s newsletter. This edition will feature some of the latest PXI products as a taster for our annual PXI supplement that will appear in the May magazine....FULL STORY

Comments - Special dispensation (23 April 2012)
One of the things I like best about this job is getting to see the latest technologies first, especially when these technologies are revolutionary....FULL STORY

Comments - Workers' rights abroad could make UK an attractive manufacturing location (16 April 2012)
A Fair Labor Association (FLA) investigation has found serious worker issues at Foxconn......FULL STORY

Comments - Manufacturers must embrace complexity challenge (10 April 2012)
A survey undertaken by IDC Manufacturing Insights and sponsored by Infor has estimated that complexity will continue to rise over the next three years....FULL STORY

Comments - New manufacturing and test facility (26 March 2012)
The Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) has opened an electronics manufacturing facility that is unique in Europe – 'a non production, production line'. ...FULL STORY

Comments - New partnership hopes to safely dispose of e-waste (19 March 2012)
The disposal of PCBs can be controversial. Many waste electronic products are illegally exported to developing countries to have precious metals removed......FULL STORY

Comments - Government should use its buying power to boost UK manufacturing (12 March 2012)
That was the view of Business, Innovation and Skills Secretary, Vince Cable at the EEF conference on British Manufacturing....FULL STORY

Comments - Lack of capital investment is costing UK companies £2.3bn (05 March 2012)
Last year, 40% of UK businesses have turned down orders worth £2.3bn because of a reluctance to invest in the current climate....FULL STORY

Comments - Southern Manufacturing & Electronics Exhibition Preview (13 February 2012)
Southern Manufacturing & Electronics Exhibition returns to FIVE, Farnborough, on 15-16 February 2012....FULL STORY

Comments - Decline in Electronics Contract Manufacturing in 2012 (06 February 2012)
Analyst iSuppli predicts that the global electronics contract manufacture business will decline slightly in 2012....FULL STORY

Comments - Countdown to Southern (23 January 2012)
It’s now less than a month until the first big event in the 2012 electronics calendar…...FULL STORY

Comments - Accessibility drives demand for Southern Electronics (16 January 2012)
2012 will see a brand new electronics production area added Southern Electronics, reflecting increased demand....FULL STORY

Comments - Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year (19 December 2011)
In this last EM&T newsletter of 2011 I’d like to wish all our readers and their families a merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all the EM&T team....FULL STORY

Comments - Innovation, knowledge and flexibility (05 December 2011)
I’d like to thank everyone who took the time to update company details and services for our annual EMS guide that will be published in EM&T’s December issue....FULL STORY

Comments - Producing new technology from old (24 October 2011)
To me, one of the most interesting aspects of electronics is to see manufacturers finding completely new applications to extend the use of, and prolong, existing technologies....FULL STORY

Comments - Grey with sunny spells for outsourcing (28 September 2011)
It is proving to a very challenging time for the global economy, and specifically the Eurozone....FULL STORY

Comments - productronica on the horizon (26 September 2011)
It’s almost time to get ready for productronica again. The bi-annual event will open its doors for the 19th time from 15th–18th November in it’s usual home at the Munich showgrounds....FULL STORY

Comments - UK market ripe for smaller exhibitions? (09 September 2011)
My last column (Defence still offers an option for UK electronics) on DSEi and exhibitions in the UK certainly provoked a response......FULL STORY

Comments - Defence still offers an option for UK electronics (05 September 2011)
When it comes to UK exhibitions and conferences, those of us in the electronics industry are not exactly spoiled for choice. The number of shows has dwindled recently, and those that remain seem to get smaller every year....FULL STORY

Comments - Traceability is the key to progression for manufacturing (22 August 2011)
iNEMI, the industry led consortium, released its latest report on the manufacturing industry last week. The document comes to a massive 1,800 pages, but the consortium highlighted some of the trends and concerns that the industry is facing....FULL STORY

Comments - Is manufacturing’s race to the bottom now coming to an end? (08 August 2011)
Foxconn plans to vastly increase the number of robots in the company’s plants to reduce labour costs. The company currently has around 10,000 robots in its manufacturing plants, and intends to increase this number to 300,000 by next year and over a million by 2014. It has been a bad news year for Foxconn. Firstly the company were forced to raise workers’ salaries 20% across the board, as well as invite independent experts to advise on working practises in response to several worker suicides....FULL STORY

Comments - Picking up the reins (01 August 2011)
One of the hardest things to do when taking over the editorship of a magazine is to pick up where the previous editor left off and try to provide a seamless change for the readership. In this case the changeover is made much harder because I am taking over from Tim Fryer, who has been a driving force for EM&T over the last decade and is held in such high regard by engineers in the manufacturing and test areas....FULL STORY