Total Assembly Solutions

by Wayne Eng

Market Strategy Head - Telecom & Datacom

Together with our OEM partners we keep improving our product performance and push the crash test standards beyond the industry norm. 

While the rise of 5G has captured the imagination and attention of consumers and businesses, it is part of a broader technological evolution of new technologies driving higher broadband connections to the end users. 

As I highlighted in my previous article, edge computing – or to use a more accurate description, multi-access edge computing - is expected to transform the processing of data from millions of devices globally. 

This emerging technology trend enables faster response time and real-time compute capabilities of data in close proximity to where it is generated, ie, at the edge of the network, and it is already on the radar of high-performance organizations.
 
According to Gartner, by the end of 2023 over half of large enterprises will deploy at least six edge computing use cases for support of IoT or immersive interaction experiences. That compares to less than 1% in 2019. Similarly, a survey from Forrester suggests that 57 percent of mobility decision-makers have edge computing on their roadmap for the next 12 months.

As the impact of COVID-19 continues to reverberate across the aerospace industry, many airlines face ongoing challenges, not least plummeting passenger numbers. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) predicts a 60% drop across Europe in 2020.

Financial support in the form of government bailouts may come with stringent conditions, which are often related to sustainability.

REACh regulations are part of that sustainability.

What are REACh regulations?

REACh is the EU’s chemicals regulatory framework, designed to reduce the level of chemicals in the environment to protect human health and the environment itself. It addresses the production and use of chemical substances and their potential impact in these areas. This regulation came into force on 1 June 2007.

According to the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) which oversees REACh, the onus is on the companies themselves to identify and manage the risks associated with...