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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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Material Traceability & Data Integrity: Challenges and Solutions
By Mitch DeCaire, Cogiscan, Inc., Bromont, Quebec, Canada
In recent years, the increased demand for material traceability has been driven by competitive pressures for improving product quality, while also reducing cost. Traceability requirements, once limited to high reliability applications, such as automotive, aerospace and medical, are rapidly becoming a necessity in other sectors including data communications, telecom, and high-end computing. Some factors driving these demands include; outsourcing, product recalls, liability, lead-free and lean manufacturing.
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Electronic Mfg. Products
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Electronic Mfg. Services
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Kwik Mark: Permanent ID & Reporting System McHenry, IL — The Kwikmark dot peen marker is suitable for identifying firearms and their associated components. It features a true file-based control system requiring no PC for operation. Date coding and multiple level serializing are built into the system. System features network connectivity and ...
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Lightspeed EMS Adds Capabilities, Services Methuen, MA — Lightspeed Manufacturing, a growing EMS provider and BGA technology specialist has added new capabilities and services to meet the needs of its growing list of clients. In addition to expanding the range and scope of BGA services — including rework and reballing — the company ...
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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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LeCroy Intros 'Scopes for Debug
Chestnut Ridge, NY β LeCroy® Corporation is introducing the WaveAce™ series of digital oscilloscopes that expands its line of portable, affordable and easy-to-use oscilloscopes in the 60 to 300MHz range. The new instrument improves...
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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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Ametek Intros Hybrid Stepper Motors Kent, OH — New MAE® brand HN Series hybrid stepper motors have low detent torque-to-holding-torque ratios promoting smooth operation and the fine positioning capability required for microstep operation. The motors can provide accurate open-loop control and high-speed operation suitable for a wide ...
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