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It’s Only Common Sense: Why Should They Take Your Call?

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Think about the customer receiving your sales call. She’s dealing with material shortages, changing laminate allocations, extended component lead times, tariff questions, unpredictable transportation costs, and management pressure to protect both delivery and margin. Then the phone rings, and a salesperson asks, “Do you have anything I can quote?” It’s time to rethink that relationship. Call customers because you have information that could help them make a better decision, not because you want an order. Instead of asking, “What can you give me?” you are saying, “Here is something you should know.” Now you are a resource, not an interruption.

Connecting Quality, Traceability, and Manufacturing Processes

09/09/2026 | Scott Ryan, Cetec ERP
Traceability is easy to describe and difficult to maintain. From the moment a component arrives, its supplier lot, inspection results, certificates, and eventual use in production have to be captured and carried forward into the finished assembly and shipment. Every step creates and requires information. In EMS and PCB assembly, products involve thousands of components, multiple levels of subassemblies, customer-specific requirements, revision changes, and supplier documents arriving in any number of formats. This becomes infinitely more difficult when quality, inventory, production, and document management live in separate systems.

The True Cost of Rework: Integrating RMAs and Rework into Core Business Processes

08/12/2026 | Scott Ryan, Cetec ERP
Returns and rework are a reality for every manufacturer. Most companies can authorize an RMA. Fewer have the process or vehicles for carrying it through receiving, quality, production, shipping, and accounting. RMAs and rework can have a significant impact on the top and bottom line. Credits and refunds reduce revenue. Repair adds cost to a product already built and takes capacity away from new, revenue-producing work. Poor execution also puts customer relationships at risk, which is everything in contract manufacturing.

Trio-Tech Wins $3.8M in AI GPU Platform Orders

07/30/2026 | BUSINESS WIRE
Trio-Tech International, a comprehensive provider of semiconductor back-end solutions and a global value-added supplier of electronic equipment, announced it has received approximately $3.8 million in additional orders for high-performance Burn-In Boards (BIBs) supporting a next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) GPU platform.

New York Imposes One-Year Moratorium on New AI Data Centers

07/15/2026 | I-Connect007 Editorial Team
New York has become the first U.S. state to impose a temporary statewide moratorium on new hyperscale data centers, following an executive order signed July 14 by Gov. Kathy Hochul. 
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