MEP EP#212: The End of Electronics Manufacturing?!

<h4><a href="https://macrofab.com/blog/mep-ep212-the-end-of-electronics-manufacturing">MEP EP#212: The End of Electronics Manufacturing?!</a><br></h4><h4><a href="https://twitter.com/droneone?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chris Church</a></h4> <ul> <li>Founder and current Chief Product Officer of MacroFab Inc</li> <li>The former founder of Dynamic Perception</li> <li>The former Co-Founder and Chief Architect of Alert Logic</li> <li>Was on the previous MacroFab Engineering Podcast episodes <ul> <li><a href="https://macrofab.com/blog/mep-ep-127-tariff-impacts-chris-church/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> #127: Tariff Impacts</a></li> <li><a href="https://macrofab.com/blog/mep-ep-142-supply-chain-conspiracy-securities/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#142: Supply Chain Conspiracy Securities</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h4><a href="https://macrofab.com/blog/coronavirus-manufacturing-update-february-13th-2020" target="_blank" rel="noopener">COVID-19 Outbreak in China</a></h4> <ul> <li>Topic today is the Coronavirus or COVID-19 outbreak in China and its impact on the global Electronic Manufacturing Supply Chain <ul> <li>If you want to know more about the virus itself I suggest going to the <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CDC website</a></li> <li>~80% of factories in general are back to work in China, but only about 21% are fully staffed</li> </ul> </li> <li>PCB Vendors <ul> <li>Extended holiday, workers at a lot of Chinese plants who went home weren’t allowed to come back for two weeks</li> <li>We have lots of production in Taiwan <ul> <li>Taiwan blocked all entrance to mainland Chinese on the 5th of February, many limits still in place</li> <li>This is causing significant delays in engineering time for new PCB orders, as most of our vendors’ engineers went back to mainland China for the holiday, and haven’t been allowed to return</li> </ul> </li> <li>PCBs going to Taiwan/Vietnam/Malaysia, etc. <ul> <li>As soon as