SETTING THE BENCHMARK

On Friday, June 23, Benchmark celebrated the much-anticipated Grand Reopening of its engineering and manufacturing facility in Almelo, the Netherlands. While the facility was never closed during the renovations, we’re calling it a Grand Reopening due to a complete revitalization of the facility...

This year, the International Microwave Symposium (IMS) held their flagship event from June 11 – 16 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. The week was packed with technical lectures, bootcamps, interactive forums, exhibits, and showcases featuring well over 500 exhibiting...

Supply chain remains a hot topic as many parts, materials, and components remain in shortage. Navigating these supply chain constraints takes a great deal of future forecasting, planning, and strategically aligning suppliers within proximity to service providers and their customers.

“Vertical integration is the business arrangement in which a company controls different stages along the supply chain. Instead of relying on external suppliers, the company strives to bring processes in-house to have better control over the production process. Though vertical integration may result...

Although the defense industry is still the largest and most mature market for drone sales worldwide, recreational and consumer drones are growing in popularity. In fact, according to Goldman Sachs Research, there were approximately 8 million consumer drone global shipments in 2020 amounting to...

Benchmark’s Chief Revenue Officer Rob Crawford was recently invited to join EMSNow’s Philip Stoten on an episode of the publication’s video series, EMS@C-Level. Rob and Phil discussed a wide variety of topics related to the supply chain and overcoming disruption, the importance of listening to...

2023 marks the 53^rd year of celebrating Earth Day, although the annual observance didn’t become a global affair until 1990. “Today, Earth Day is widely recognized as the largest secular observance in the world, marked by more than a billion people every year as a day of action to change human...

In an article titled “Miniaturising Radio Frequency Components Using Advanced Circuit Fabrication Methodologies” published in its April 2023 issue, Commercial Micro Manufacturing International (CMM) walks us through how the engineering team at Benchmark Lark Technology have created RF module...

Graduates and job seekers take in the atmosphere at Benchmark Almelo

We have been excitedly waiting for the day we get to show our newly renovated Almelo site to everyone, especially to our potential new members of the Benchmark team. On April 6, we invited all potential team members to come and...

A trio of defense system experts from Benchmark explained that reduced size need not mean reduced performance for battlefield connectivity. They describe Benchmark's vision for reducing size, weight, and power (SWaP) in the March 2023 issue of Military Embedded Systems with the article “Lower-SWaP...

The promise of 5G—along with the speed and reliability it offers—is certainly nothing new. In fact, nearly all the major cellular service providers are delivering 5G, and device makers are offering compatible hardware to take advantage of those networks. However, the infrastructure for expanded 5G,...

Benchmark Celebrates Grand Opening of New Precision Technologies Facility in Mesa, Arizona

Joined by a host of dignitaries, including Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs, Congressman Greg Stanton, Mesa Mayor John Giles, ACA President and CEO Sandra Watson, and GPEC President and CEO Chris Camacho, we...