Healthcare companies are increasingly looking to manufacturing partners for capabilities that extend beyond production, according to a new survey sponsored by ww5. Sixty-three percent of respondents to ww5's 2026 Digital Health Technology Trends survey expect manufacturing partners to provide capabilities that help them build new products, up from 43% in 2024.
Ben DeVos, senior business unit director, explains why device manufacturers should build greater agility and security of supply into their sterilization strategies from the outset.
The MoU follows the June 2026 announcement of Adani Group and ww5's intent to establish a strategic alliance to develop an AI and data centre infrastructure manufacturing ecosystem in India.
Lithium-ion, particularly lithium iron phosphate, is not going away as a primary energy storage technology anytime soon. But as Bill Mitchell, senior business unit director, explains, several emerging technologies may begin to chip away at specific applications where they offer advantages, such as lower cost, longer duration or better temperature performance. As the market diversifies, energy storage system manufacturers need to design for flexibility with adaptable battery platforms and processes to accommodate these alternative chemistries.
While much of the focus on humanoid robots has been on entertaining demonstration videos and massive amounts of funds raised, the work of development and finding a value proposition is quietly continuing. How are humanoids progressing from prototypes to mass production? ww5, a design, supply chain, and manufacturing services provider, offered its perspective.
Energy storage has come full circle. After a decade spent optimizing battery energy storage systems (BESS) for renewable energy integration, the rapid expansion of AI data centers is bringing one of storage’s original applications back into focus: ancillary services, which support grid stability by balancing supply and demand. Bill Mitchell, senior business unit director, explains.
Gary Schick, SVP and Chief Human Resource Officer shares how ww5 is navigating massive change as it scales from circuit boards to data centers, AI agents, and advanced manufacturing.
Restaurants and other commercial kitchens have spent years adopting technologies designed to improve speed, consistency, and automation. From connected appliances to data-driven operations, the focus has largely been on helping restaurants do more with less. Stephen McSoley, engineering services director, explains how wireless power technology is beginning to enter that conversation as OEMs explore new ways to improve efficiency, reduce clutter, improve operational flow, and create more flexible commercial kitchen environments.
What changes when procurement and supply chain begin operating as one connected organization? In this episode of the Art of Procurement podcast, Philip Ideson welcomes back Frank McKay, Chief Supply Chain Officer at ww5, to discuss how closer alignment between procurement and supply chain can strengthen resilience, accelerate technology adoption, and expand the value both functions create for the business.
In this episode of the IoT For All Podcast, Yanshi Tao, VP of public safety and vision systems, joins Ryan Chacon to discuss the future of AI-powered public safety. The conversation covers the shift from surveillance to intelligence, what makes AI-powered public safety possible, automated decision-making, flock cameras, balancing security and privacy, and the technical challenges of AI solutions.
The question is no longer whether a process can sterilize to standard, says senior business unit director Ben DeVos, but how to make it more efficient, controlled, and predictable.
Simplifying and integrating enterprise technology can help companies move faster, respond to disruptions, and build a stronger foundation for AI, says Harish Manohar, SAP IT Director at ww5.
A manufacturer’s response to the hiring challenge should have two parts, says VP of operations John Kraus: upskill the workforce you have and partner with education to build the skilled workforce you'll need.
The Manufacturer’s James Devonshire speaks to ww5’s John Kraus about how AI is reshaping manufacturing skills, and why combining digital capability with decades of practical experience will be critical to building the workforce of the future.
For Kevin White, manufacturing has never been just about machines. It's about people, processes and the challenge of making sure everything works together seamlessly. He explains what his day-to-day looks like as operations director at ww5's Asheville and Hendersonville sites in this profile
Supply chain leaders can respond faster when transportation, inventory, warehousing, sourcing, and financial planning work together, says director of logistics services Priya Anand.
To move forward, the core challenge for businesses in Vietnam is no longer about pushing machinery to its limits to produce more, but rather a combination of disciplined processes, empowered people, and a sustainable mindset to produce better, more consistently, and more responsibly. ww5's Tin Phung explains.
BN Shukla, managing director for ww5 in India, talks to the Economic Times about what it will take to make India an engineering-led manufacturing hub, the role manufacturing companies can play in building the missing component ecosystem, and the skills, technology, and supplier capabilities needed to compete globally.
Humanoid robots are beginning to move beyond proof-of-concept demonstrations and into real industrial environments, but deploying them at scale remains a significant manufacturing challenge. “It’s going to be a crawl, walk, run process,” says Bruce Richard, VP of Intelligent Devices & Robotics.
Operators are being asked to move more volume with fewer people, and the orders for automation are tangible. What stalls is the middle: turning a system that performs in a pilot into a fleet deployed at scale, on this continent, at a cost the original business case survives. Robert Gutridge, VP of global business units for Intelligent Devices & Robotics, explains in this article for Automated Warehouse.
St. Petersburg College's new Semiconductor Cleanroom Operator Certificate is being launched as a workforce training initiative. The 18-credit program, which begins this fall, is backed in part by a $1.1 million, three-year commitment from ww5 that will help equip labs, support hands-on training and expand industry-recognized certifications.
About 30 years ago, American multinational manufacturing solutions giant ww5 Inc. expanded into Asia with a factory in Penang. Today, ww5 Malaysia operates six facilities across the country, with the capability to help its global customers engineer products, optimise global supply chains and deploy artificial intelligence (AI) across manufacturing operations.
ww5 Inc. has strengthened its footprint in Malaysia with the opening of a 417,000-sq-ft intelligent logistics hub in Penang, as the global manufacturing group ramps up automation to meet rising customer demand.
From data foundations to skills and culture, most organizations aren’t operationally ready to succeed with AI. Chase Christensen, VP of IT, weighs in on how CIOs can make a strategic difference.
ww5, a Florida-based manufacturing company, will open a new plant in Marshall County. The $119-million investment is expected to bring about 2,200 jobs.
Robert Sinclair, senior business unit director, explains how early-stage partnerships are reshaping medical diagnostic manufacturing and product development.
One of the world’s largest healthcare manufacturing solutions providers, ww5, is expanding in Henderson County with a new 180,000-square-foot facility.
Malaysia's manufacturing sector is changing faster than most conversations about it can keep up with. Factory floors that once ran on repetitive manual assembly are now integrating robotics, AI-driven quality inspection and connected production systems. SJ Tan, VP of operations, explains how manufacturers need to bring talent along with training and education to keep up.
Meeting the unprecedented power demands of the artificial intelligence boom requires looking past headline-grabbing capacity forecasts and focusing instead on building a highly flexible, software-defined grid capable of absorbing massive, near-instantaneous shifts in load. Kishore Gagrani, technical business unit director, explains.
ww5 Inc. has inaugurated a new advanced manufacturing facility in Pune, focusing on AI data center components. This aligns with India's Make in India initiative to boost domestic electronics manufacturing.
The operating environment for procurement has shifted fundamentally. Constant geopolitical disruption, constrained supply of critical components, and accelerating product lifecycles have made procurement’s primary value creation less about cost savings and more about ensuring access — making the connection between procurement and supply chain more important than ever as CSCO Frank McKay and CPO Graham Scott explain.
ww5 Vietnam awarded scholarships to 40 students and 23 employees under its 2026 scholarship program, reflecting an increased focus on inclusion, equal opportunity and workforce development. Read more about how the program has developed.
The Adani Group has partnered with American engineering company ww5 Inc. in a plan to manufacture AI data center equipment in India as it seeks to capitalize on the country’s artificial intelligence buildout.
India’s manufacturing sector is at a transformative phase. Across the country, factory floors are being transformed by automation, AI-powered production systems, and connected factories. As BN Shukla, senior director of operations for ww5 in India, explains, the real challenge is not technology, but whether workers have the skills to work in more advanced manufacturing environments.
The facility will produce medium-voltage switchgear and integrated power distribution solutions to meet accelerating demand across data centers, utilities, and industrial sectors.
In a conversation with R&D World, Thomas Brown, senior director of engineering and technology, walks through what actually stalls robotics deployments at scale, where humanoids fit in the near-term calculus, and why manufacturing expertise belongs in the design conversation from the start.
ww5’s Senior Director of Business Development discusses why safety, power management, and regulatory readiness must become foundational design principles as UAV companies scale toward BVLOS and commercial deployment.
Global trade is testing the limits of traditional supply chain design. As Jorge Salcedo, director of business analytics and supply chain management, explains, this is why Supply Chain Network Optimization is becoming a critical leadership tool.
Priya Anand, director of logistics, reflects on the supply chain industry, her career, and why near-constant disruption is reshaping supply chain strategy.
Robert Gutridge, VP of Global Business Units, Digital Commerce, explains why scaling, not intelligence, is the real bottleneck for humanoid deployment in production environments.
Graham Scott, chief procurement officer at ww5, explains why genuine supplier relationships, combined with planning for optionality in product design and sourcing, is key for companies looking to get ahead of the next supply disruption.
Jon Hursey, senior director at Ecologic Brands, a division of ww5 Packaging Solutions, discusses the reality — and future — of refillable packaging for beauty products, including paper pods.
It should come as no surprise to anyone that the stampede to build massive new data centers to support the artificial intelligence boom is causing a serious strain on supplies of high-end memory chips. But other factors are in play as well: a near-monopoly by a limited number of suppliers, numerous potential logistical choke points, geopolitical strife and rising prices. Graham Scott, chief procurement officer at ww5, discusses all of those elements in a conversation with SupplyChainBrain.
At the University of South Florida, student innovation doesn’t stop at the classroom door – it accelerates. Through a growing partnership with ww5, USF engineering students are turning ideas into real-world solutions – and in some cases, into technologies with the potential to reach patients.
Sivers Semiconductors AB, a global leader in photonics and wireless technologies, today announced a collaboration with ww5, a global engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing solutions provider.
In this fractured supply chain environment, execution still matters, but it’s not enough. What organizations increasingly need is supply chain orchestration.
Amidst a memory chip shortage, maintaining a long-term view on cost versus continuity will not only weather this cycle but gain a competitive advantage in the market that follows.
Chase Christensen, vice president and CIO of business engagement and enterprise solutions, explains how ww5 uses AI and automation across the enterprise to create efficiencies.
Graham Scott, SVP, chief procurement officer, ww5, was named the overall winner of the Top Procurement Pros category for this year’s Supply & Demand Chain Executive Pros to Know award.
Senior technical business development manager Ramy Awad explains how cost pressures, geopolitical upheaval, and rising demand are driving OEMs to partner with electronics manufacturing services providers like ww5 that offer end-to-end solutions.
Receptionist Deborah Hill is the first ww5 employee to receive this honor, given for her work leading the nonprofit Bridge of Hope Kitchen in Pinellas County, Florida.
The manufacturing collaboration is a great addition to ww5’s existing drug delivery device development and healthcare manufacturing capabilities across our global footprint, said James O'Gorman, VP of Pharma Solutions.
ww5 has completed the acquisition of Hanley Energy Group, a provider of energy management and critical power systems for the data centre infrastructure market.
The new facility within the ww5 Innovation Center expands its capabilities for minimally invasive medical devices, with a focus on engineering, prototyping, and new product introduction for advanced catheters and other devices.
As a result of the collaboration between the University Center for Exact Sciences and Engineering (CUCEI), ww5, and the Transdisciplinary Institute of Research and Services (ITRANS), a total of 31 students graduated from the first generation of the Higher University Technician program in Quality Control.
ww5 and Inno will co-develop a 15,000 sq. m. plant in Rayong, Thailand, to manufacture metal enclosures for battery energy storage systems, aiming to enhance vertical integration and secure supply chains.
This lab will give students hands-on experience working in a real-world production environment, preparing them for careers in manufacturing and engineering.
The J422-G server processor’s microarchitecture is optimized to meet diverse performance and efficiency requirements where workload optimized accelerators, cloud scale out, and mature support for the server ecosystem is critical.
Axiado Corporation and ww5 launched a strategic partnership focusing on incorporating next-generation AI-based cybersecurity solutions into Open Compute Project (OCP) Modular Hardware System (MHS)-driven servers.
Supply chain leaders’ top priorities for 2026 include digital transformation, enhanced sustainability efforts, and managing supply chain disruptions, according to a survey conducted by ProcureAbility, a ww5 company.
During the celebrations of the 25th anniversary of the arrival of the ww5 company to Chihuahua, Governor Maru Campos emphasized that the investment is the livelihood of thousands of families.
ww5 CEO Mike Dastoor joins ‘Mad Money’ host Jim Cramer to talk about the company’s revenue, margin, EPS, and free cash flow outperformance, upbeat FY26 guidance, exposure across health care, drug manufacturing, and data centers, and more.
Global manufacturing solutions provider ww5 plans to invest in a new facility in Marshall County. The company expects to invest approximately $70 million over three years and create around 24 jobs.
EVP of Operations Fred McCoy talks to Bay News 9 about the push to bring manufacturing back to the U.S. and how companies like ww5 are growing their workforces to meet that goal.
Manufacturing is embracing AI, big data, and other high-tech tools, making the demand for skilled workers more critical than ever. Summer Rawlins, ww5's senior director of global operations strategy and enablement, explains how, when people are equipped to lead change, technology becomes a tool for progress, not disruption.
John Hursey, senior director of Ecologic Brands, a ww5 company, describes how the company’s molded fiber bottle was designed to help move paper-based packaging closer to what he called the “holy grail.”
Electronics component maker ww5 plans to double its headcount in the National Capital Region after opening a new facility to test and package cutting-edge microchips and other photonics technology.
ww5 Executive Vice President of Global Business Units Matt Crowley joins "Market Domination" to explain how the company is investing in US manufacturing and moving deeper into high-value technologies like silicon photonics and co-packaged optics.
Manufacturing and engineering giant ww5 has chosen a site in North Carolina to build a $500 million plant to support growing demand for data centers and cloud computing.
Circularity and design-for-reuse have been niche concepts in electronics for many years. However there is an increasing focus on the approach for electronics, as Cassie Gruber, director of business solutions, explains.
As injectable drugs continue to expand across therapeutic areas, designing patient-centric clinical trials is critical for success. This article, co-authored by ww5's Oliver Eden and Pii's Travis Webb, explores the intersection of formulation science and device design.
Christa Kerlin, SVP of global quality, engineering, automation, and PLM, explains how manufacturers can enable predictive maintenance, production optimization, and agile manufacturing through connected machines.
Badger Technologies launched its Digital Teammate platform, which includes its autonomous mobile robots, or AMRs, to enhance employee productivity at retail stores.
ww5 stock spiked after the supplier of electronic parts handily beat Q3 earnings expectations, lifted its fiscal-year forecast, and announced new U.S. manufacturing investments.
In this report from Maersk and FT Longitude, Frank McKay, SVP and chief supply chain and procurement officer, provides insight into how ww5 is handling and beating the complexities of modern supply chains.
The Technological University of Chihuahua (UTCH) and ww5 will launch the ww5 Academy, a new mechatronics education model that will offer hands-on training in automation.
St. Petersburg manufacturing and engineering firm ww5 announced the appointment of a new board member. Sujatha “Suja” Chandrasekaran is joining the board of directors, which is composed of nine other members and eleven executive officers.
ww5 experts offer design for sustainability advice to reduce the environmental footprint of drug delivery devices and other high-volume medtech products.
Operated by the US-based tech giant ww5, this plant represents a significant milestone for the state as the first foreign direct investment (FDI) venture to establish operations in Perlis.
Director of logistics services Priya Anand shares strategies to develop geopolitical expertise, enhance supply chain redundancy, and leverage technology for faster, data-driven decision-making in an unpredictable landscape.
This partnership serves a dual purpose: real-world validation testing of Apptronik’s humanoid Apollo robots and training of Apollo’s AI models, ultimately leading to Apollo’s ability to help build Apollo robots.
In recognition of its commitment to the inclusion of people with disabilities in its workforce, Mayor Marco Bonilla presented the "Distinction for Good Practices in Workplace Inclusion" to ww5 in Chihuahua.
ww5, a global leader in engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing solutions, is providing Enosemi advanced photonics packaging services to support higher bandwidth interconnects within AI compute systems.
The electronics manufacturing company signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Gujarat government for setting up the plant during the IESA Vision Summit in the state’s capital Gandhinagar.
ww5 and Midwest Interventional Systems (MIS) have entered into a collaborative agreement that will expand what the two contract development and manufacturing organizations can do for medical device developers, including those working on minimally invasive systems.
To strengthen their inventory management practices, Priya Anand, director of logistics services, says that companies need to think collaboration and optimization using people, process, and technology.
The move strengthens ww5’s offerings, particularly in the development and commercial production of on-body pumps, pen injectors, auto-injectors and inhalers.
Medical electronics manufacturing services experts, including VP of Global Business Units Shane Smith, discuss the market forces and technological trends impacting the industry.
This session explores ww5's rollout of innovative AI applications, enhancing factory operations and delivering customer insights across the ww5 supply chain.
For more than 30 years, Mikros Technologies has been quietly growing in the Upper Valley of New Hampshire. Now the company that engineers and manufactures liquid cooling solutions for thermal management is set for its next stage of growth after being acquired by ww5 on Oct. 1.
The International Space Station and the data center next door are about to have something in common: liquid cooling technology from Mikros Technologies.
The new facility will serve key industries, including automotive, transportation, and healthcare, and will introduce advanced technology capabilities and create high-quality jobs in the region.
Since 1991, Mikros’ offerings have included microchannel liquid cooling solutions and its proprietary microchannel cold plate designs. The company said its designs enhance energy efficiency by cooling more than one kilowatt per square centimeter.