The paper examines the role played by foreign direct investment in developing local linkages in Singapore’s electronics industry. Backward material linkages have developed as a result of two processes: the development of indigenous local suppliers, mostly within the fabricated parts sector, and foreign investment by overseas suppliers, especially in the hard disk drive sector. The economic deve...

The special testing requirements of LHC electronics are analysed and compared with standard testing techniques used in industry. General testing problems at the IC, MCM, board and system level are analysed and related to the construction of the large and complicated electronics systems required in an experiment.

SWOT analysis is a strategic planning method used to evaluate the Strengths, Weaknesses/Limitations, Opportunities, and Threats involved in a project or in a business venture. It involves specifying the objective of the business venture or project and identifying the internal and external factors that are favorable and unfavorable to achieve that objective. Turkish electronics industry is conti...

Funded by the Agency for Science, Technology and Research – A*STAR – Singapore, CAMTech is collaborating with a Singaporean research institute and two industry partners with the objective to improve electronics assembly processes. The goal of this project is to visualise the behaviour of an electronics assembly industry based on discrete events simulation. The traditional scenario from the cust...

Smart wearable textiles can sense, react, and adapt themselves to external conditions or stimuli, they be divided into active passive smart textiles, which work with the human brain for cognition, reasoning, activating capacity. Wearable technology is among fastest growing parts of health, entertainment, education. In future, development electronics will focused on multifunctional, user-friendl...

Various work-related issues including mental health have been described for the electronic industry. Although East Asian countries play important roles in the electronics industry, the association between job demands and emotional symptoms has been rarely examined. The present study recruited 603 workers from either office or clean room environments in an electronics factory in Taiwan. Their pe...