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Friday, June 4th, 2010XTech‘s online store just got a lot better. Customers can now access a wide array of design resources like drawings and 3D models. In addition, the number of products available for purchase in the online store has increased dramatically. Do you need an extruded enclosure? A standard front panel? A filler panel? No problem. The [...]
XTech & Triple E Make an Impression
Friday, April 30th, 2010This article is cross-posted in the Baselodge Blog. I’m sitting at the Boston airport preparing to return to Baselodge Country. I just spent a couple of days with the XTech and Triple E team for the Extrusion Technology Global Sales Meeting in Taunton, MA. There is no substitute for meeting face-to-face with the people who [...]
xTCA Front-Panel Innovation
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009Extrusion Technology (X-Tech) out of Randolph, MA has released a video providing an overview of their innovation in xTCA products. Steve Richardson and Matt Travers discuss how this has been applied to their AdvancedTCA, AMC, MicroTCA, and Ruggedized MicroTCA products. The link to the video is here.
Embedded Systems Q&A
Friday, February 20th, 20091. What is an “embedded system”? An embedded system is basically any device that has an internal computing architecture designed to handle a specific application. This applies to any type of processor and operating system, so can be anything from an ARM platform running Linux or an RTOS to a full x86 implementation running Windows. This [...]
What is Price Masking?
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007What is price masking and who benefits from it? To answer these questions, let’s start by exploring the contract manufacturer’s (CM’s) supply chain practices. Because of their size, volumes, and component spends, large CMs wield considerable power in negotiations with their component suppliers. This power is often translated into special pricing for the CM. When [...]
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