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	Am I at Risk to Use This PCB?


	By Stanley L. Bentley, Senior Technical Advisor, Divsys International To properly test for issues with the through-hole process, it is important to understand how soldering occurs. The simplistic assumption is that machines, such as reflow ovens, wave soldering systems, selective soldering systems (or even people) create a solder joint. They do not. In all cases, these ...

	Embedded Boards Offer New Solutions


	By Mario Klug, Senior Marketing Manager Embedded Boards & Systems, Rutronik Elektronische Bauelemente GmbH Embedded boards ideally would lower costs while providing more functionality. Motherboards for the consumer market seem to fill this gap, unlike embedded boards, but they lack the longer lifecycles, the support and other features that industrial applications cannot do without. By providing semi-industrial ...

	Selecting the Right High Tech Adhesive


	Barry Siroka, Business Development Manager, EpoxySet Choosing the best adhesive can be a complex process. Carefully selecting the correct adhesive for a job will reduce the number of products that need to be evaluated and increase the likeliness of its success. There are many variables to consider and numerous types of chemistries with different capabilities ...

	Improve Crimp Quality to Increase Productivity


	By Pete Doyon, Vice-President, Product Management, Schleuniger, Inc. High-quality crimp terminations will usually exceed the service life of a product in which they are installed. On the other hand, a marginal-quality crimp termination can cause electrical failures early in a product's life. Since a high percentage of product failures can be traced to poor electrical ...

Making Best Practices "All for One and One for All"

By Arnold Fletcher
Your best and most experienced people on the manufacturing floor make an art of their work, but are sometimes reluctant to change. Your least experienced and/or most timid people avoid asking anything twice, so they wade through documention and search for answers.

	Am I at Risk to Use This PCB?


	By Stanley L Bentley, P.E., Senior Technical Advisor, DIVSYS International, LLC There is only one way to answer this question, and that is with an examination by a qualified laboratory. However, production pressures, laboratory lead times and cost usually require some "less than definitive" answer. Even with access to a laboratory and control of the lead time, I sometimes find ...

	Five Things to Know About Automatic Crimping Machines


	By Zachary Kozak, Marketing & Communications Analyst, Komax Wire Wire crimping is an important part of production lines that depends on the performance and reliability of a wire crimping machine. Such machines are available in a variety of configurations, as both manual and automatic systems. For larger production requirements, however, automatic wire crimping ...

Solutions for High-Mix Electronics Production

By Susanne Oswald, ASM SIPLACE
Hardware, software and process expertise for high-mix electronics production are special focus areas of ASM Assembly Systems. An SMT line solution that has been optimized especially for high-mix applications will use a DEK Horizon 03iX printer and two SIPLACE SX2 placement machines ...

	Saline Lectronics' Lean Program


	By Mario Sciberras, President, Saline Lectronics Earlier this year (February), early-stage plans were released to implement a new lean manufacturing program factory-wide at Saline Lectronics (www.lectronics.net). Upon attending the IPC APEX EXPO (www.ipc.org) in San Diego, CA, feedback from industry colleagues indicated surprise at an electronics ...

	A New Paradigm in Crimping Press Design


	By Rob Boyd, Senior Product Manager, Schleuniger, Inc. It goes without saying that manufacturing companies want the highest possible quality at the lowest possible cost. These days, everyone is trying to do more with less in order to stay relevant in a highly competitive environment.

	How High Is My Component? Tolerancing in Electronics


	By Jason Tynes, Manufacturing Engineer, STI Electronics, Inc., Madison, AL, e-mail: jtynes@stielectronicsinc.com. Tolerance in manufacturing refers to the amount of variation from product to product. It is often the observable difference between idealized computer models and tangible hardware. In surface-mount technology (SMT), such variations impact all aspects of the fabrication process, from component placement ...

	What Every Contract Manufacturer Needs to Know About Product Development


	By Steve Owens, owner of Finish Line Product Development Services In the landmark HBR article, "The Four Things a Service Business Must Get Right," by Frances X. Frei, the author differentiates a product business from a service business. The author states that in a service business, unlike products businesses, the customer is a key part of the product realization ...

	Containers Cut Weight But Not Durability


	By Jim McMahon, SSI Schaefer, Charlotte, NC Containers for storage or transport are often overlooked in the electronics industry, even though they can be critical to the function of any manufacturing facility or warehouse. Properly designed containers can provide protection and durability while at the same time trimming weight for increased ...

	Handling Miniature Parts Safely With Vacuum Tweezers


	By Tom Mealey, Executive Vice President, Virtual Industries, Inc., Colorado Springs, CO Handling miniature parts is becoming more challenging for manufacturers since many parts continue to get smaller even as they increase their levels of integration and functional complexity. These miniature parts are being incorporated in a growing number of electronic products, including cellular ...

Case Study: Schleuniger Provides Automation and Quality for Draxlmaier Group

By April Grossman, Schleuniger, Inc., Manchester, NH
One thing all companies are continually looking to achieve is to cut costs and increase efficiencies. In addition, companies must remain compliant with the strict quality and safety standards of their industry, adding even more pressure. Because of this, innovative, automated and easy ...

	Lean NPI — Closing the Gaps


	By Julian Coates, Valor Division of Mentor Graphics Corp. Traditionally, PCB layout designers produce many drawings and data packages to send for manufacture. These traditional drawings and data contain specifications and requirements that the assemblers and fabricators need to know to deliver the correct product. When sent as separate BOM, Gerber files ...

	PCB Design Considerations for High Power LEDs (Part 1)


	By Stanley L. Bentley, P.E., Senior Technical Advisor, DIVSYS International LLC The transition to light-emitting diodes (LEDs) from conventional forms of lighting has not been without issues. However, the high light output vs. input power and long operating lifetimes make LEDs attractive for many applications, such as automotive systems. Engineers have quickly learned that the ...

	Solder-Bearing RF Shields Cut Costs, Improve Quality


	By Joe Praino, Interplex Industries, Inc., College Point, NY Radio-frequency (RF) shielding is an important part of the design and manufacturing of modern electronic products, including Smartphones, computer tablets, and other handheld electronic devices that require consistent quality from high-volume production environments. As these devices become smaller ...

	When a Corrective Action Report Corrects Nothing


	By Stanley L Bentley, P.E., Senior Technical Advisor, DIVSYS International, LLC An automotive company was experiencing field failures of an electronic module. Failure analysis on one module led to a via that, when cross-sectioned, showed a circumferential void. Predictably, the lab report regressed back through the system from the auto company to the module supplier to the contract ...

	Benelux EMS Pioneer Embraces 3D AOI Measurement


	By Thorsten Niermeyer Defects must be found and their causes corrected so that the EMS can deliver high-quality assemblies on time — a key focus at LIAD Electronics, a privately owned contract manufacturer in Breda, The Netherlands. The company has been at the forefront of manufacturing and quality assurance for its ...