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July 25, 2025

Component Testing & Inspection: Ensuring Quality in Your Supply Chain

Supply chains today have steadily grown more global, more fragmented, and faster-moving. All of these factors have ...

October 11, 2024

8 Tips For Strategic Cost Reductions in the Electronics Supply Chain

Cost reduction strategies are always top-of-mind for manufacturers and buyers of electronic components, especially as ...

October 7, 2024

The Role of High-Power Microscopy in Component Lab Inspections

High-power optical examinations are a versatile, go-to technique that’s the workhorse of the inspection lab. Microscopy is ...

October 1, 2024

Why Quality Control Inspections Matter For Electronic Components

Amid supply chain disruption and chip shortages, the market was flooded with remarked, counterfeit parts and electronic ...

July 30, 2024

4 Inspection Methods To Identify Counterfeit Electronic Components

Counterfeit electronic components are a major threat to supply chains and remain an ongoing challenge. Although governments ...

July 22, 2024

Solderability Testing for Electronic Components

In the electronic components industry, solderability testing is performed to determine how well the leads on a component ...

June 12, 2024

How to Vet New Suppliers When Sourcing Electronic Components

Parts go obsolete. Products change. Vendor relationships come and go. Whatever the reason, you’ll eventually need to vet new ...

June 5, 2024

5 Advanced Component Testing Capabilities At Sensible Micro

Every supplier, manufacturer, and OEM plays a role in ensuring the integrity of the components they order. It’s never enough ...

June 4, 2024

How an Independent Distributor Helps With Supplier Risk Mitigation

Consolidated Relationships, Global Network Consolidation of your vendor relationships drives efficiency, but diversification ...

December 12, 2022

Turn to Electronic Testing Services When Vetting New Suppliers

Why Vet New Suppliers? Obsolescence and product changes may require pivots in procurement. A spate of late vendor deliveries ...

July 21, 2022

Dip-and-Look vs. Wetting Balance Methods For Solderability Testing

An important tool for older electronic component testing, solderability testing measures the “solderability” of leads, ...

June 20, 2022

Recycled Electronic Components & Marking Permanency Tests

The recycling of electronic components is essential to sustainable manufacturing in the semiconductor industry. However, it ...

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