SETTING THE BENCHMARK

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...

Benefits of Digital Twins

A digital twin is a powerful digital tool that allows an original electronics manufacturer (OEM) or an engineering and manufacturing services provider to create and utilize a digital model of a physical product. Digital twins are gaining traction in a number of...

The field of mechatronics has become integral across all industries, from industrial automation and the medical industry to the gaming industry, satellite communication and more. As a multi-faceted and interdisciplinary branch of engineering, mechatronics combines mechanical, electrical, computer,...

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...

Balancing the Benefits and Challenges of a Changing Competitive Landscape

As the world embraces the many economic and strategic benefits of rapidly advancing computing and communications technologies, we must also prepare for the many associated challenges. 2023 will, indeed, be a year of...

Autonomy. Sustainability. Device Proliferation.

2020 saw a boom in the semiconductor industry when the pandemic accelerated remote working environments. As the digital world became “the” playing ground for consumers and businesses alike, semiconductor sales skyrocketed. In fact, according to the ...

The Age of Advanced digitization

The 2023 Aerospace and Defense (A&D) industry’s shared goals focus on agility, productivity, growth, and sustainability. In order to meet these goals, however, the industry must focus squarely on digitization. To put this into perspective, for original electronic...

Over the last decade, the healthcare industry has been continually searching for ways to improve the quality of care, patient outcomes, increase accessibility, and reduce cost. There’s no doubt that the accelerated growth of the point of care (POC) medical device industry was spurred on by...

Capitalizing on Funding by Meeting Regulations

Recently, Benchmark had the privilege of welcoming Eric Miscoll, EMSNow Publisher, to our manufacturing facility in Guadalajara. Eric was in the region for SMTA Expo Guadalajara and wanted to get a close and personal look at the manufacturing activity happening in the city. At the conclusion of his...

In the span of just a few short years, the global manufacturing industry has arguably gone through more consecutive disruptions than ever before in our collective history. In the United States, alone, we’ve weathered a trade war, a pandemic, and now, one of the toughest component shortages that...

Companies across the globe, and especially in the U.S., are beginning to reconsider the geographic footprint of their manufacturing operations. Geopolitical factors, transportation costs, and narrowing of the labor cost divide make localization more advantageous than in the past. The trend is even...