North American PCB Sales and Orders Continue to Climb: IPC PCB Industry Jan. Results
IPC Association announced the January 2018 findings from its North American Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Statistical Program. Both sales and orders were up year-over-year in January. Due to continued strong order growth in January, the book-to-bill ratio climbed to a 12-year high of 1.16. Total North American PCB shipments in January 2018 were up 9.8 percent […]
Joe Benz Named Director of Operations for Electronics Manufacturer Intervala
East Pittsburgh, Pa., March, 2018 – Intervala, LLC, a full-service manufacturer of high-reliability, precision electronic and electromechanical products, announced today that Joe Benz has joined the Company as director of operations. Benz’s career in operations management and engineering spans more than 30 years in a variety of technology driven industries, including medical, industrial, commercial, and military. In this […]
Flextron Ensures Quality with Advanced 3D SPI, AOI Inspection
Chicago, Illinois, USA – Flextron Circuit Assembly, a full-service contract electronics manufacturer, has added 3D Solder Paste Inspection (SPI) capability and Automated Optical Inspection (AOI) to its PCBA manufacturing lines, ensuring high quality and reliability in its finished electronic assemblies. Flextron has deployed two powerful 3D SPI systems from Koh Young Technology in addition to post-soldering […]
Call for Papers EIPC 50th Anniversary Conference Dusseldorf, Germany
Date: June 21 & 22, 2018 Location: Courtyard Hotel Dusseldorf Seestern, Germany Visit: New Multilayer Factory Unimicron, Geldern The Call for Papers communications that one reads are usually the first signs of some pretty amazing creativity that will inevitably and invariably follow. From that initiative, that demand, follows the submission of abstracts, précises, summaries, all […]
Fujitsu Develops Technology to Verify Blockchain Risk
Risk detection is automatic and comprehensive to improve safety of smart contracts Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. and Fujitsu Research and Development Center Co., Ltd. announced development of technology that can verify, in advance, risks associated with smart contracts, which are programs that automatically execute transactions on blockchain platforms. The technology also identifies relevant locations in the […]