Month: August 2026

The infrastructure that runs Texas runs on distributed electronics. RTUs at compressor stations, flow computers on gathering lines, SCADA nodes at substations, smart meters across service territories, protection and control boards in cabinets nobody opens for years. This equipment is installed at remote sites, expected to operate for decades, and noticed only when it fails. … Read more

Dallas-Fort Worth has become one of the fastest-growing robotics markets in the country. AMR fleets are deploying across metroplex warehouses and distribution centers, cobot suppliers are building out their Americas operations, and robotics companies across Carrollton, Coppell, and Plano are moving platforms from prototype toward production. Every one of those platforms is, electrically, a set … Read more

For two decades, offshoring PCBA was the default math. Labor arbitrage made the unit price unbeatable, and everything else — lead time, freight, engineering distance — was treated as friction to be managed. Then came 2020 through 2022: factory shutdowns, port backlogs, component shortages, and ocean freight rates that multiplied several times over. Procurement teams … Read more

Run a supplier qualification for industrial control electronics and a pattern emerges quickly: every supplier who survives the first screen looks the same on paper. IPC-certified workmanship. A registered quality system. AOI and X-ray on the floor. Traceability. The certificates that were once differentiators are now the price of admission — and if every finalist … Read more