86 SMT007 MAGAZINE I JULY 2022
A great deal of work must be done continuously
to reinvent and rebuild our industry for the future.
Here in Washington, we are encouraged by new
legislation indicating a bipartisan commitment to
U.S. manufacturing that is long overdue.
Customers, partners, and employees are
increasingly moving toward companies that
care about people and the environment, not
just about their economic profitability. Cor-
porate social responsibility has thus become
essential, even in the manufacturing sector.
The Government Circuit:
U.S. Congress Gets Serious
About Boosting U.S. PCB Sector
SMS Electronics in
Collaboration with UK
Design-House SmartSentry
Smart Made Simple (SMS) has joined forces
with SmartSentry, a design-house who
specialises in turning ideas into reality using
modular technologies.
They offer an innovation
acceleration
service, to help
customers to
bring their prod-
ucts to market
faster with econ-
omies of scale.
Creating close working relationships with manufacturing
specialists who can extend your capabilities for your
customers is one obvious way to collaborate. But there
are others. For example, collaboration can also look like
proactive communication with customers as well as vendors.
Social Responsibility and
Ethics in Manufacturing
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Nolan's Notes: What's the Point of Collaborating?
