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Friday, July 21, 2017

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Avoid Redesign By Proper Upfront Planning

By Ed Nakauchi, Technical Consultant, Orbel Corporation
The words "I wish we had thought about that when we started our design effort" can be heard every day when important questions haven't been addressed during the development of a precision metal part. Whenever a new project is started, those responsible for delivering the new product ...

	Five Questions to Ask Before Choosing a New Cut and Strip Machine


	By Pete Doyon, Vice-President of Product Management, Schleuniger, Inc., Manchester, NH A great deal of time and effort often goes into finding the right equipment for an electronics manufacturing facility. Purchasing a new wire cut and strip machine is no different. With so many options on the market, it is difficult to know where to start the search.But by asking five simple questions ...

SMT Printer Manufacturer Achieves Global Reach Through Sales Partners

By the Staff of GKG Asia
Headquartered in Dongguan, China (Guangdong Province), GKG is the leading China brand for fully automatic vision printers supplied to the surface-mount-technology (SMT) industries for printed-circuit-board (PCB) assembly. Many of these printers are installed worldwide and GKG is the ...

	Five Fast Fastener Tips For Electronic Product Manufacturers


	By David Rizzo Fasteners are key components in many product designs, and often manufacturers of different products will seek guidance from fastener suppliers on the use of fasteners in their products. Including the fastener supplier early in the design process can help reduce manufacturing costs, speed the production ...

	Interface Design Involves Highest Levels of Complexity


	By Ed Sullivan Today's electronic products may often combine clever use of different technologies, but the design of the human-machine interface (HMI) for those products can often be as instrumental to the success of those products as the design of the product's main functionality. Effective HMIs have contributed ...

Vertical Lift Module Delivers Speed and Versatility

By Patrick Roberts
Electronic product manufacturers must constantly wrestle with conflicting requirements for improved performance, reduced picking costs, and more consolidated floor space for their small parts inventory. Many facilities apply a person-to-goods model for small parts fulfillment, using ...

Registering 20 Years of Rapid Service

By Dee Claybrook, President/CEO, Rapid Tooling. Inc., Plano, TX
In a fast-paced world, the word "rapid" may sound like music to some ears. Rapid Tooling, Inc. was created 20 years ago to address the challenges faced by engineers and managers in printed-circuit-board (PCB) assembly and semiconductor packaging, and its rapid responses have been music ...

	Stepper Motors Bring Precision to Medical Phototherapy Device


	Skin diseases such as psoriasis, vitiligo, and eczema can be treated by one of two basic methods: medication and phototherapy. Sunlight, which contains therapeutically valuable UVA and UVB forms of ultraviolet (UV) radiation, has been used as a skin treatment for over 3000 years. Two basic phototherapy methods ...

Parts Management at Jazz Aviation Keeps Airplanes Flying High

By Christina Duda, Marketing Communications Manager, Kardex Remstar LLC, Westbrook, ME
Jazz Aviation is a regional carrier serving approximately 80 destinations across Canada and the United States. Working under a commercial agreement with Air Canada, Jazz operates more flights and travels to more Canadian destinations than any other carrier. With flights to large cities ...

Widening the SMT Print Process Window

By Michael L. Martel, Speedline Technologies Inc.
About 15 years ago, the new mantra in stencil printing was to "take the art out of the art of screen printing." It was the age of the "lights-out turnkey" manufacturing "flowline". Screen printing solder paste had become stencil printing, and advances in PCB assembly technology now ...

	Packaging an Innovative Light Source


	By Ken Tumblison, President, Buckeye Shapeform, Columbus, OH Boston Uplights owner Paul Therrien needed a spotlight that was light in weight, battery powered, and remotely controlled. He requested it from his suppliers, but soon realized such a light was unique and not available in the market. Rather than accept defeat, he saw an opportunity to market such ...

	The Shift to Industrial Networks


	By Members of the Technical Staff, Automation GT, Carlsbad, CA Progression of the Internet and the growth of networked computing have impacted almost all business sectors and industries, some more than others. At the same time, this evolution in computing is revolutionizing the automation industry, or at least it will for Automation GT, a custom automation assembly ...

Custom Cables Handle Rugged VFD Cable Applications

By the staff of Northwire, Inc.
Leveraging more than 1200 total years of tenured expertise in the design and manufacture of custom technical solutions for demanding variable-frequency-drive (VFD) cable applications, Northwire, Inc. (NWI) is a company that has seen and solved some of the toughest challenges in industrial ...

Enhancing Solder, Stencil, and Assembly

By the staff of FCT Assembly
FCT Assembly, with headquarters in Greeley, CO, is an important manufacturer of lead-free and leaded solder products, superior quality stencils, and precision cut parts. The company consists of three divisions: FCT Solder, Fine Line Stencil, and A-Laser. With numerous facilities in the ...

	Minimizing Final Cost By Utilizing Design For Manufacturing


	Design for Manufacturing (DFM) is the buzz on many blogs and company priority lists. Provided here is an example of how communication and cooperation between component design engineers and circuit design engineers can result in optimum performance, quality, and cost savings for both.

Error-Proofing the Process

By the Staff of Schleuniger, Inc.
Located in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, at the heart of Toronto's industrial sector, lies Kelvin Technologies, a company with over 100 years of combined experience in electrical heating, controlling and sensing. Specializing in electrical heaters, microprocessor controls, temperature ...

	Custom Building Projectors with 24-Hour Turnaround


	By Christina Dube, Marketing Communications Manager, Kardex Remstar, LLC, Westbrook, ME Christie is a global visual technologies company offering diverse solutions for business, entertainment, visual environments and medical industries. With over 100,000 projection systems installed worldwide, Christie technologies include solutions for cinema, large audience environments, control rooms ...

	Tracking Components at The Sony UK Technology Centre


	By Michael Bloor Counting SMT components on reels can present a dilemma. Conventional counting systems are slow, error-prone and can even result in component losses and damage to the material being counted. They require far too much operator time and delay the availability of reels for further builds. They rely on ...

Saving Millions by Reducing Warranty Returns

By Alan Perkins, Qualmark, Denver, CO
Faced with slimmer profit margins in a shrinking economy, today's leaders of manufacturing businesses find themselves scrutinizing every aspect of their business model to find ways to shave costs. Profitability targets are getting harder and harder to attain, while ever-present threats ...