One out-of-stock component can delay an entire hardware project 200 days
Matthias Wagner · ⚡️ Building the AI Hardware Engineer with Matthias Wagner, Co-founder of Flux · Nov 22, 2025 · at 10:51
Matthias Wagner, CEO of Flux, explains why real-time supply chain integration is critical for PCB design tools.
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“And when you have a design with say, 500 components, and one of them is not on stock or there's a lead time of 200 days, then the whole project has a lead time now of 200 days, right?”
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