The Surprising Origins of The TV Remote

It began with something TV viewers of the 21st Century can still identify with – anger over the adverts.

In the 1950s in the US, Zenith Electronics president Eugene F McDonald gave the company’s engineers a challenge: he hated having to sit through adverts. He wanted a device that could let him mute them, or skip to another channel (…where hopefully something other than adverts were playing).

Read More
Guest User
From Drones to Pickup Trucks, Workhorse CEO Believes the Future is Electric.

Tesla isn’t the only company focusing on electric vehicles. But instead of luxury cars, Ohio-based Workhorse builds electric delivery vans, and it’s developing an extended-range electric pickup truck called the W-15. The company is also working on drone delivery, and a human-piloted aircraft called the SureFly that looks like a cross between a drone and a conventional helicopter.

Read More
Guest User
Making Sense of Sensors

By equipping a smart, connected product with more sensors, a company can get a broader view of how a product functions (including real-time insights), open new ways to improve its performance (in real time as well) and more. However, it’s not enough just to add new sensors to the existing ones to improve visibility into the state and performance of these products. As the number of sensors increases, the volume of the data coming from these sensors will grow as well—and such a situation needs a specific approach to establishing all the big data-related processes: data ingesting, storing, processing and analyzing.

Read More
Guest User
Procurement: A Game Changer for Modern Product Launches

When you try to reverse engineer the secret sauce for a wildly successful new product, you probably don’t start by wondering how the procurement team worked its magic. Engineering and marketing get all the glory when the latest gizmo becomes a customer favorite. As consumer expectations for quality, innovation, ethics, and cost continue to rise, new products are critical to competitive advantage. And procurement is often the critical component to getting that product to market.

Read More
Guest User
4 Ways IoT Transforms the Electronics Supply Chain

If you’re in electronics, you know that the Internet of Things (IoT) is huge. From consumer products to industrial applications, IoT is transforming the way we interact with the physical and digital world. And supply chain is no different. A discipline that was once plagued by guesswork and firefighting is now stepping into the modern era, as IoT technologies are giving supply chain managers access to a new level of visibility into their in-transit goods.

Read More
Guest User
Global Shipping Trends Optimize Supply Chain Logistics

With the rise of e-commerce and the shipping standards set by Amazon, customers now have rising expectations on global delivery. Retailers and couriers are embracing this challenge, using automation and technology to make supply chain logistics faster, easier, and compatible with the 21st century.


Read More
Guest User