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Companies are facing a global skills gap and labor shortage issues. To succeed in the global competition for talent, companies must get migration management right. In this coauthored World Economic Forum article, Paul Baldassari, EVP of Worldwide Operations, outlines how organizations can attract and manage migrant employees by understanding challenges with immigration policy, improving the employee experience, and upskilling and reskilling the workforce for skills needed for #Industry40.
In a continually changing global supply chain, people, data and technology must work together seamlessly to enable real time data collection and visualization. With Flex Pulse™, our cloud-based intelligent software platform, we partner with you to scale visibility at the product level from factory to customer, with a network of 9,000+ supply chain professionals. Learn how Flex Pulse can help you drive smarter decision making
Recently, prioritizing workforce health, Flex India (CIP) in collaboration with SIMS and Chettinad Hospital held a Women’s Health Screening Camp. Close to 150 Women in Flex underwent gynecology consultations; BMI assessments; and vitals, blood sugar, and hemoglobin levels monitoring conducted by medical professionals. Additionally, in raising awareness of the importance of early detection of diseases, employees were trained to identify the signs and symptoms of breast cancer in a guided session. Together with Flex, let’s take care of our health!
We're proud to share that Lynn Torrel, CPSCO at Flex, has earned a top spot on the 2023 Top 15 Chief Procurement Officers list by DiversityPlus Magazine for her leadership and innovation to shake up the status quo. Lynn has been recognized for Flex's robust supplier management program and building a diverse, merit-based supply chain where we proudly collaborate with our customers to include diverse and local suppliers in our procurement processes. Lynn is also being recognized for launching an industry-wide innovation to improve the future of supply chain with the True Demand initiative.
We're proud to have been recognized as a 2022 Supplier of the Year by General Motors at their event in San Antonio, Texas. This honor recognizes global suppliers that distinguish themselves by exceeding GM’s requirements, in turn providing customers with innovative technologies that are among the highest quality in the automotive industry. "We proudly enable GM to get their product innovations to market faster and with greater resilience through our global design and manufacturing services,” said Mike Thoeny, President, Automotive.
Congratulations to Enphase Energy, a leading global energy technology company, for beginning shipments of its IQ Microinverters out of our Flex factory in Timisoara, Romania. This production ramp builds on our 15-year history of partnering with Enphase to expand strategic in-region manufacturing and broaden access to Clean Energy across the globe. “Today’s production milestone illustrates our close partnership with Enphase to accelerate the transition to a more electrified future,” said Revathi Advaithi, CEO.
What does a career engineering innovative #medtech and #healthcare products look like? Let's learn from Stefan-Mihnea Lovas, hardware development engineer, who shares his professional story and what's it like to have a career at our medical design center in Timisoara, Romania. In 2018, Stefan began his #internship at Flex, where he gained valuable experience using modern technologies and electronic equipment, such as digital oscilloscopes, signal generators, and spectrum analyzers. Today, he's thinking outside the box to design and engineer connected medical devices of the future.
As part of Womens History Month, Georgina Goff, senior director, EMEA marketing, communications and sustainability, spoke with Manufacturing Digital about opportunities and challenges for women in manufacturing and the initiatives to help promote better gender balance across the industry.
As we celebrate women’s contributions and highlight the importance of workplace gender diversity during #womenshistorymonth, we connected with three talented colleagues specializing in various manufacturing disciplines. In different stages of their careers and taking unique paths, team members share how their professional journeys have evolved and what most excites them about the future at Flex. Learn more about the experiences of Tingting Zhen, a quality engineer in Zhuhai, China, Columba Garza, a program management and business development leader in Aguascalientes, Mexico, and Laura Gordana Vacarescu, a technical support manager in Timisoara, Romania.
As part of #WomensHistoryMonth, Flex India (CIP) empowered their local community by sponsoring 10 units of used desktops to ANEW - Association for Non-traditional Employment for Women NGO, Anna Nagar. Established 1997, ANEW NGO has been changing the lives of many economically and socially underprivileged women by providing training and placement in skillset programs covering advanced IT, nursing, driving, and more. Through this initiative, Flex aims to strengthen the learning of these women and expand their growth and employment opportunities. Special thanks to Sekaran Letchumanan, Flex’s VP of Operations for India and Sandra Andrews, HR Senior Director at Flex India (CIP) for overseeing the program. Learn more about their great programs here: https://fal.cn/3wCfJ
