With the rapidly changing demands and conditions in the factory, supply network, and customer requirements, automation is a solution many are looking towards. Smart manufacturing is the new buzz as more cable assembly houses embrace their need for fully-integrated and...

New Bedford, MA, USA, July 20 , 2020 – Fiber Optic Center, Inc., (FOC), an international leading distributor specializing in helping their customers make the best cable assemblies in the world, announces Ben Waite to present at the CRU Wire & Cable 2020 Virtual...

New Bedford, MA, USA, June 30, 2020 – Fiber Optic Center, Inc., (FOC), an international leading distributor specializing in helping their customers make the best cable assemblies in the world, announces the appointment of Richard Tumminelli as Fiber Design and...

Part II: the CEO role during a global crisis CEO responsibilities, for the overall success of an organization, include creating frameworks for work delegation, establishing talented management and systems, and the strategy and goals for operations, marketing,...

Part 1: Changes in the business environment The coronavirus has raised many new and critical problems for businesses of all size – operational and strategic problems. Most of my comments today will focus on operational issues.Optical cable assemblies are components in...

Hundreds of standards specify the characteristics and procedures for making and using fiber optic connectors and cable assemblies. Many of these standards are for the end-users – organizations that build and operate optical networks and other fiber-based systems. For...

A believer that a business is only as strong as the community that surrounds and supports it, Fiber Optic Center, Inc (FOC) has always invested in our community and continues to find ways to pay it forward during the coronavirus pandemic. Frontline workers, those...

New Bedford, MA, USA, April 27, 2020 – Fiber Optic Center, Inc., (FOC), an international leading distributor specializing in helping their customers make the best cable assemblies in the world, announces the addition of Disposable Medical Face Masks to their...

Managers in most businesses now face a common task: how to revise their twelve-month projections or plans for calendar 2020. This is a thorny problem. In a sense, we are still in a data-gathering phase before we can work on conclusions about how much demand may...

The spread the Covid-19 pandemic has a direct effect on the fiber optic and cable assembly industries.
The first impact is near-term: how much will travel restrictions and government-mandated – and temporary – business shutdowns affect assembly manufacturers. The second is longer-term: how much an economic downturn or recession will affect demand for optical cable assemblies. In the latter case, US unemployment is spiking up, consumer spending is plummeting, and economists are openly discussing the likelihood or the potential duration of a recession.