Consulting is much more than a simple relationship. The most effective consulting work is backed by deep industry knowledge and interactivity with a broad community of experts. Duane Benson’s portfolio of 1,500+ articles published, and decades of public speaking illustrates a commitment to understanding technology, business and the people involved in the various tech industries.
Selected Client Work and Case Studies
- Selected projects: Positive Edge / Duane Benson client work projects
Selected Published Articles
- Design News, November 2023: Bringing Back a Classic Tube Radio
- All About Circuits, October 2023: After 84 Years, Canada Stops Broadcasting Time From Its Atomic Clocks
- Design News, August 2023: Teardown: LED Light Bulb Theory vs. Reality
- Embedded Related, July 2023: Jumping from MCUs to FPGAs – 5 things you need to know
- All About Circuits, July 2023: The Story of the (Very Expensive) E-Newspaper Display That Updates Daily
- Designing Electronics North America (DENA), January 2023: From design to finished PCB
- Design News, December 2022: Checking in on a decade of disruption
- Designing Electronics North America (DENA), November 2022 (page 28): Continuing Supply Chain Woes
- SMT iConnect007, May 2022: Finding solutions in the quoting process
- Design News, October 2019: 5 Predictions of tech disruption in the next decade
Regular contribution articles
- Published in: EE World Online
- Published in: All About Circuits
- Published in: iConnect007
- Published in: EE Times
- Published in: EE Web
- Published in: Make Zine
Commercial blog articles
Screaming Circuits: “Circuit Talk” blog
Podcasts
- Teardown Podcast: Tour of Screaming Circuits factory floor
- Predictable Designs: PCB Assembly and Design for Manufacturing with Duane Benson
- On Track Podcast: Best DFA Tips from Duane Benson
Speaker at
- Keynote at NEDME
- Teardown Portland (Watch video, starting at 1:27:45, here)
- Embedded Online Conference
- PCB West
- NEDME technical sessions
- SMTA
- Embedded System conference (speaker and panel moderator)
- Executive Officer’s Club
Speaking engagement topics
- Keynote: The next ten years in manufacturing
- Business strategy for the engineer entrepreneur
- On demand electronics manufacturing
- Prototyping traps
- Internet marketing
- Marketing for the engineer entrepreneur
- PCB Layout and assembly challenges
- Filed Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA)
- Embeded language (on a panel)
- Embedded gadgets (on a panel)
- Using high-density components
- System architecture for a telepresence robot
- Board design best practices
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In addition to business consulting services, Duane is available for speaking on a variety of electronics, manufacturing and B2B marketing topics as a keynote, panel moderator or technical session subject matter expert. Learn more about Duane Benson and his industry experience on the About page here.
You can find Duane Benson on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/duanebenson/ and Twitter at twitter.com/duanebenson.