EC Electronics have signed the lease on a second factory in Romania, opening the door to new opportunities. This new state-of-the-art facility will be dedicated to cable assembly and overmoulding, providing opportunity to expand their capabilities to build even the most complex projects. This new site will also provide substantial space for future expansion. Our [...]

Having been established since 1984, EC Electronics has weathered many storms and adapted to an ever-changing business landscape. Our view on Brexit is that we will continue to offer innovative Electronics Manufacturing Services to our customers, whatever form the final Brexit deal takes. Since expanding our business in 2006 with a new facility in Romania, [...]

RFID technology has seen some dramatic advances recently, with RFID tags becoming smaller and smaller and therefore creating new opportunities for using this technology. In fact, microscopic radio frequency identification tags have been developed that are only 22 microns wide (approximately one fifth of the diameter of a human hair) and have the potential to [...]

We'll be exhibiting at this year’s Engineering Design Show on stand J44. Operating internationally in the Electronics Manufacturing Services industry, we deliver a high level of service to customers from a wide range of markets throughout the UK and Europe. From our headquarters and manufacturing operations in the UK, and our wholly owned subsidiary operations in Romania [...]

Estimating the costs of manufacturing electronics has become increasingly time consuming. Historically, electronic products may have had 40-50 components making it relatively easy to cost and provide a realistic estimate. Now we are seeing electronic products averaging around 180-200 components, making the estimating process more complicated and at risk of inaccuracies. Many entrepreneurs underestimate the [...]

The UK electronics industry has for some time been facing a technical skills gap. STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and maths) are not a popular choice for school leavers even with various incentives and schemes in place to encourage students to take an interest. As employers in the electronics sector we, and our friends in [...]

The Internet of Things is a reality. Homes are already fitted with smart thermostats and people are living in new smart cities in the Far East. In fact, it is projected that 30 billion things could all be joined up on the Internet of Things within the next couple of years. The Internet of Things [...]

Not so long ago the Internet of Things (IoT) was a concept that was confined to sci-fi and children’s ideas about what the future would look like. Now it has become the fastest technology growth market, with Bains predicting that by 2020 annual revenues could exceed $450 billion for the IoT vendors selling hardware and [...]