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Custom Plastic & Metal Parts Made Quickly, Inexpensively
By Robert Powell, Market Development Manager, Quickparts, Inc.
Quickparts and Contract Engineering Services have formed a partnership to design and produce products with molded plastics, sheet-metal and most materials used in electronic applications. "Quickparts is an entirely new way to obtain custom-manufactured plastic and metal parts," said Ronald L. Hollis, Ph. D., President and CEO, Quickparts. "A more traditional method of obtaining custom parts takes too much time, leaves room for error and is often a bigger hassle than anticipated."
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Lowering Expensive Tape Costs by Eliminating Waste By Ryan Short, Marketing Communications, Start International
In many manufacturing industries the precision application of specialty adhesive tapes is extremely important. These specialty tapes, such as Kapton®, are not cheap and must be applied at very precise measurements. The high material cost of such tapes, combined with the need for precision ...
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Electronic Mfg. Products
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Electronic Mfg. Services
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ACL: Antistatic Shield Now in Aerosol Elk Grove Village, IL — Responding to customer demand, ACL Incorporated is now packaging its long-lasting static dissipative coating called Staticide ESD Safety Shield in an aerosol spray. The 6500 Staticide ESD Safety Shield is a humidity-independent water-based coating that provides a constant ...
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Custom LED PCB Assembly, From Start to Finish By Rodney Mena and Johnny Jiang, CAO Group, West Jordan, UT
Whether you're evaluating your current CM, or sourcing a specialist PCBA manufacturer, especially one you have not worked with previously, the first thing to check out is certifications. Manufacturers with a commitment to quality should have an ISO 9001:2000 certification and adherence ...
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Management
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New Products
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I&J Fisnar France: Making it all Work
By Walter Salm
Cergy-Pontoise, France — 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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CAMI Intros Cable Tester with Multi-Language Voice Control Acton, MA — New software released for CAMI Research's CableEye® Cable and Wire HarnessTester permits production engineers to utilize synthetic speech and voice recognition for hands-free operation. Voice recognition permits the operator to issue commands to the tester without pushing buttons or ...
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Industry Articles
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Product Previews
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Shrinking Components, Highly Complex PCBs Drive AOI Design By Brian D'Amico, President, Mirtec Corp., Oxford, CT
The continuing trend toward the miniaturization of electronic packaging technologies is perhaps the most prolific driving force behind new AOI product development. The advent of 0201 and 01005 packages and the industry-wide acceptance of BGA, CSP and a host of small outline ultra fine pitch ...
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Phoenix Contact Intros Next Gen Field Terminations Middletown, PA — Phoenix Contact's new Varioface Professional field termination assemblies (FTAs) and rugged cables offer fast, fault-free wire management from field wiring to process or motion controllers. Using a contemporary industrial design, the new FTAs are available in ribbon, D-sub, OEM controller ...
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