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| By Martin LaMonica, cnet Green Tech WASHINGTON, D.C. -  The most well-known obstacles to installing wind turbines are complaints over their visual impact and the potential for bird and bat deaths. But conflict with radar systems have derailed over 9,000 megawatts worth of wind capacity--nearly as much as was installed in the U.S. last year. "We're not going to put up more wind (in many locations) without conflict because radar systems and wind systems love exactly the same terrain...which is...
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| ROGERS CORPORATION TO SHOWCASE MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS AT MD&M WEST 2010
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| Rogers, CT -  Rogers Corporation will be showcasing its Medical Technology Solutions at the upcoming MD&M show, February 9-11, in Anaheim, CA (booth #2873). Rogers is a specialty materials company with extensive experience in a broad range of material and process technologies that can enhance performance and patient comfort when applied to advanced medical technologies like...
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Robonaut2 built with dexterous humanlike hands is able to work tools typically used by humans.(Credit: NASA) | By Candace Lombardi, cnet news
This is not your average assembly line worker. But Robonaut 2 is expected to be an exemplary co-worker. General Motors and NASA on Thursday introduced Robonaut2, a humanoid robot being jointly developed at the Johnson Space Center in Houston for use in both the automotive and aerospace industries. Robonaut2 is stronger, more dexterous, and more technologically advanced than the...
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Automated Reballing Tool Fulfills MIL Needs
By A.J.G. Strandjord, T. Teutsch, and G. Azdasht, Pac Tech β Packaging Technologies, Santa Clara, CA
There has been a growing demand to automate the rework and repair processes associated with BGA packages (reballing). Historically, there have been three main reasons for reballing these packages: deformed balls, damaged balls, or missing balls.
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Value-Added Device Programming for Small-Medium Sized Companies
By Bruce Rodgers, Data I/O, Redmond, WA
In our world of increasing global competition and the lure of cost-down manufacturing in Asia, too often device programming has been judged too complex a process step to manage in-house or too low in volume to add significant value to the manufacture of electronic products. If you have made these decisions, you may be overlooking a significant opportunity to control your costs and improve your profit margins.
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SemiProbe Expands Probe Product Family Colchester, VT — SemiProbe has released its new programmable stage series for the flexible Probe System for Life (PS4L). With the addition of these stages, the PS4L is able to grow and transform as the user's needs and budget grow. According to the company, the patent pending PS4L family of probe ...
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Universal: Bringing State-of-the-Art EMS to the Customer By Betsy Evans, Ignite Communications, betsy@ignitecom.com
Universal Electronics, Inc. (UEI) has been serving the electronic manufacturing market since 1980 and is well known for its focus on customer intimacy. This approach and commitment to quality has earned UEI...
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I&J Fisnar France: Making it all Work
By Walter Salm
Cergy-Pontoise, France β What? Translate the entire I&J Fisnar catalog, data sheets and engineering bulletins from English into French? Who on earth would willingly take on a task like that? The answer: Loic le Naou, the president of I&J Fisnar France S.A. Located in a northwestern suburb of Paris, the company provides complete technical and engineering support for its products. The French subsidiary started out in 1990 with just 2 employees; Loic was one of them, and he has been leading the company's French operation ever since.
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Keystone Intros Low-Profile Battery Clips Astoria, NY — Keystone Electronics has developed a new group of low-profile clips which firmly secure inserted batteries and withstand shock and vibration. The new clips were created to meet accelerated demands for "AA" and "A" surface mount battery clips for dense packaging use. Featured are an ...
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Improving Inspection of Lead-Free Solder
By Christian Munoz, Hirox USA
Lead-free solders are said to cause various problems, such as: lack of self-alignment, bridges, solder balls, insufficient wetting, dendrites, pits, voids and peeling of soldering land. Also, on miniaturized lands, there may occur insufficient melting of solder paste. Even though these ...
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Rehm Intros New Vacuum Vapor Phase Reflow Blaubeuren, Germany — Rehm Thermal Systems is showing its latest developments in Vacuum Vapor Phase reflow with the launch of its VPS Condenso Vacuum system. The company is demonstrating the many advantages of the new technology, which is particularly effective for thermally demanding applications ...
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