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Managing Long Product Lifecycles and Supply Chain Challenges

December 10, 2024

Developing proactive, resilient, and cost-optimized supply chains is critical for long-lifecycle products (LLCPs), those with active production lives exceeding five years. Sectors like aerospace and defense (A&D), automotive and transportation, large-scale capital equipment, and medical and life...

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Mission Critical — Product Realization for Aerospace & Defense

October 17, 2023

In today's rapidly evolving aerospace and defense (A&D) market, product realization services have become a critical part of mission and commercial success. With dwindling research and development (R&D) budgets, an ever-increasing need to field products faster, and requirements to fit more...

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Benchmark—Pushing Boundaries For RF/Microwave Systems

July 6, 2023

At this year’s International Microwave Symposium (IMS 2023), we caught up with members of the Benchmark team to find out what they were sharing with conference attendees. In this interview, Bryan Halladay explained how Benchmark’s diverse offering—including RF engineering, microelectronic assembly,...

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Center of Excellence for Fluid Management – Almelo, Netherlands

June 15, 2023

Welcome to our blog series on Benchmark’s Centers of Excellence. These centers embody our commitment to excellence, focusing on their expertise, resources, and certifications in key technologies. Our Centers of Excellence represent the pinnacle of technical competence, delivering the best solutions...

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Vertical Integration Might be Great at Making Ducks—But What if Your Product is a Swan?

May 18, 2023

“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...

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IVD Design and Development — In-House or Outsource?

May 9, 2023

In-vitro diagnostic (IVD) medical devices are quickly becoming vital tools used to diagnose and monitor disease or other conditions through the analysis of biological samples. The COVID-19 pandemic, an increased demand for point-of-care (POC) testing, an aging global population, and a rise in...

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Manufacturing Implications for Point of Care Medical Devices

December 9, 2022

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...

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Design for Supply Chain: What is it, and Why is it Critical

July 19, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic and many other geopolitical and economic factors have created a volatile supply chain that is significantly disrupting materials and component lead times. In addressing this challenge, Benchmark has seen a significant increase in demand for combined supply chain and design...

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Integrating Lidar for a Safer Future

June 1, 2022

Light detection and ranging (lidar) technology is a remote sensing feature most notably used in newer model cars that is also employed to safely guide robots and autonomous vehicles on manufacturing floors and warehouses. Lidar has been used for over 20 years by the U.S. Department of Agriculture...

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3 Tips for Bringing Medical R&D to Market

April 1, 2022

Radical, seemingly ripped out of Star Trek medical devices continue to be released faster than ever thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic and growing venture capital (VC) investment in the health sector. With this acceleration, a new dominant medical device original equipment manufacturer (OEM) structure...

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Benchmark Site Profile - Almelo

September 28, 2021

Almelo is a municipality in the eastern Netherlands and home to Benchmark’s hub in Western Europe. Benchmark’s Almelo site hosts our European Design Center of Innovation, which carries a proven track record of developing high-quality engineering and manufacturing services and solutions. Our Almelo...

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The Sights and Sounds from MD&M West 2021

September 3, 2021

Benchmark was excited to exhibit at MD&M West 2021, August 10-12, 2021, in Anaheim, California, our first in-person event since the onset of the pandemic. Cobranded with four other leading conferences in the manufacturing and engineering space, the “Design. Engineer. Build” conference theme...

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