Your degree got you to the starting line. It won’t get you the job. That’s not a knock on your education. It’s a reality of how semiconductor hiring works right … Read More
Summer looks different on a remote mine site than it does anywhere else. While the broader workforce is taking vacations, spending time with family, and recharging, your FIFO workers are … Read More
Summer vacation season is one of the most predictable workforce challenges in manufacturing, and one of the most consistently mishandled. Every year, between June and September, production floors across North … Read More
Every May, engineering students across North America start their summer internships in semiconductor facilities. They spend 12 to 16 weeks working alongside process engineers, equipment technicians, and product engineers, getting … Read More
Manufacturing is losing its most experienced workers faster than it can replace them. Baby Boomers, the generation that built and sustained North American industrial output for four decades, are retiring … Read More
Hiring the wrong role for the wrong problem is one of the most expensive mistakes a semiconductor facility can make, and it happens more often than most operations leaders would … Read More
Every spring, the same conversation happens in mining operations across British Columbia, the Yukon, and the western US. Project approvals that have been sitting in review come through. Exploration programs … Read More
The executives in that room weren’t mincing words. At the ISIG Executive Summit Taiwan 2026 – where TPD attended as a Partner Sponsor – semiconductor leaders from across the Asia-Pacific … Read More
Q3 ramp targets don’t slip because of equipment delays. They slip because the workforce wasn’t ready when the tools were. If your fab is targeting first wafer by July or … Read More
For most of the last three decades, the semiconductor industry’s supply chain logic was straightforward: design in the United States, fabricate in Taiwan or South Korea, assemble and test across … Read More
