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Monday, September 25, 2017

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Ambient Shadow Moiré Warpage Measurements Reduce Defect Rates

By Eric Moen, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Akrometrix
The electronics assembly industry is being challenged with materials, components and assemblies that are more prone to warpage-induced defects both pre-reflow and in-between reflow stages. The majority of traditional warpage and deformation testing has taken place in a controlled environment ...

Flexible Industrial PC Production with SEHO Selective Soldering

By Heike Schlessmann, Marketing Manager, SEHO Systems
In 1983, Siemens Karlsruhe began manufacturing augmented standard PC technology to meet its customers' demanding industrial requirements. The operation has grown to become a 4,500-employee operation, the fifth-largest Siemens AG location in Germany. Optimized production steps carefully ...

Magnetic Attraction: Combining M12 Connectors with Transformers

By Jonas Diekmann, Technical Editor, HARTING Electronics
Transformers play a major role in today's Ethernet communications technology; without them, broadband data transfer with high signal integrity would be nearly impossible. Typically, network devices and cabling sections have to be galvanically isolated from each other in order to protect ...

Smart Reflow: Industry 4.0 is Actually Delivering

By Vitor Barros, General Manager, KIC Europe
Some companies may find the change to Industry 4.0 overwhelming, though it is one of the most exciting developments in the manufacturing industry in decades. It promises vast improvements for both manufacturers and their customers.

Smarter, Faster, Leaner: The Democratization of DFM

By Patrick McGoff, Valor Product Manager, Mentor — A Siemens Business
Design for manufacturing (DFM) software for printed circuit boards has been around since the mid-1990s. It began with bareboard fabricators who wanted to make sure that they fully understood the design they received, in order to avoid any manufacturing issues. When PCB designers got ...

Visual Work Instructions are the GPS of Manufacturing

By Berenice Mengo, Online Marketing Specialist, VKS
Operating in a high-mix, low-volume environment, effectively navigating the manufacturing process can be complex and difficult. But there are reliable solutions to help steer manufacturers toward the most efficient processes. One of these is the company Visual Knowledge Share (VKS) ...

X-ray Uncovers the Best and Worst of BGA Assembly

By Dr. Bill Cardoso, President, Creative Electron, Inc.
BGA technology is touted as the ideal interconnect solution because it uses solder balls as leads to provide a reasonable level of self-alignment. That means that there is some tolerance in the placement accuracy, which is a direct function of the size and density of the BGA.

Benchmarking RFID Readers for Maximum Tag Performance

By Klaus Schoeke, VP of Technical Sales, FEIG Electronics
From trains and warehouses to hospitals and libraries, RFID systems are delivering greater efficiency, security and productivity to workplaces around the world. With the growing popularity of products and solutions that offer the convenient connectivity made possible by the Internet ...

Breaking Records: Koh Young Delivers 10,000th Inspection System

By Jenny Yuh, Marketing Assistant, Koh Young Technology
Koh Young Technology, one of the fastest-growing 3D inspection systems providers worldwide, recently delivered its 10,000th inspection system, a Zenith AOI machine, to a large Chinese automotive supplier. The Zenith system is designed to measure the true profilometric shape of components ...

Industry Voices: A Breakout Year for the IoM

By Michael Skinner, Associate Editor
From every corner of the electronics manufacturing industry we are hearing about the Internet of Manufacturing (IoM) or one of its various appellations, including Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). This trend is changing rows of discrete machines into efficient ...

Managing Thermal Energy with a Finely-Tuned Adhesive

By Laurie Gibbons, Business Development Manager, Permabond
Heat, vibration, moisture, and dust can all wreak havoc in electrical systems. With the miniaturization of components, heat or thermal management becomes an even more critical factor in the design process. Managing heat in processing, heat dissipation, and thermal expansion and contraction ...

Progressive Cavity Pumps Enable Vital Precision and Repeatability

By Can La, Product Manager, Techcon Systems
Up until roughly five years ago, operators of manual and automated dispensing lines had little ability to achieve highly-accurate, consistent application of adhesives, epoxies and other fluids. This was especially difficult for small depositions, when working with viscous materials ...

Spectrum Ups the Sensitivity of Modular Digitizers

By Oliver Rovini, Technical Director, Spectrum Instrumentation
Spectrum Instrumentation has added an option, M4i.22xx-ir40m, to its successful, high-speed 22xx series of digitizer products that increases their sensitivity and absolute resolution for low amplitude signals in the ±40 mV up to ±0.5V range. The current products are optimized ...

Ultrasonic Piezo Transducers for Smart Sensors

By Frank Moeller and Stefan Vorndran, PI (Physik Instrumente)
Piezoelectric transducers are based on electro-ceramic materials that convert mechanical power into electrical power and vice versa. There are two effects. First, when a force is applied, an electric charge is generated (direct piezo effect). Then, when an electric field is applied ...

	Bonus Content: Focus on the Customer Experience!
	Go Beyond the Transaction - Understand the Journey.

	By Joanne Moretti, GM, Radius Innovation & Development, SVP & Chief Marketing Officer, Jabil In this high speed and highly connected world, organizations across the board, from small to global enterprise, are thinking about the Customer Experience (Cx) and what happens to it in this digital world. Hardly anyone thinks of the Customer Experience as someone else's problem within a company, or isolated to the "Customer Service Department". Those days are long gone. Today the Cx is everyone's responsibility and must be considered a true "journey" that is affected by every stage of your value chain, and contemplated in every phase of product, service or new business model design and development. We believe it simply can't be an afterthought or just one person's/group's job. Here are some staggering statistics on the importance of the Cx to the "C" suite, from a variety of analyst firms and consulting firms:

A Road Map to Successful Thermal Testing

By David Brehmer, Technical Writer, Exatron
Whether testing one device or millions, the ultimate goals of any thermal testing operation are efficiency, accuracy, and stability. Thermal forcing, clamping, and calibration methods are all variables, but the one common denominator in all test scenarios is the socket. Exatron's new ...

Beyond Debug: XJTAG for Flash Programming and Board Test

By Philip Ling
The JTAG standard, first established by the IEEE 27 years ago, defines an electrical and physical method for connecting JTAG-enabled devices on a PCB, or across multiple PCBs. However, JTAG is not a general-purpose bus. The technology behind the interface differs significantly from ...

Selecting and Optimizing Wet Processing Equipment

By Ed Sullivan
Microfabrication operations such as metal lift-off, stripping, etching, plating/coating, cleaning, and die-bonding are typically wet processing procedures. Yet, selecting the equipment to perform those procedures most efficiently and cost-effectively is often not a simple matter. In ...

Shadow Moiré Measurement Techniques for Discontinuous and Semi-Reflective Surfaces

By Neil Hubble, Director of Engineering, Akrometrix
Flip chip packages are seldom perfectly co-planar; instead, there exists an angle between the die and package substrate, which becomes a critical factor in maintaining product yield and reliability. Point-to-point height measuring quality checks for die tilt can be time-consuming, and ...

The Benefits and Risks of Copper Pillar Bumped Flip Chips: Part 2

By Craig Hillman Ph.D., CEO, DfR Solutions
Copper has inherently higher electrical and thermal conductivity than SnPb or SnAg/SnAgCu solders, by a factor of about 25. Higher conductivities reduce current density and temperature within the interconnect, which are the primary drivers for matter flow and electromigration (EM) failures ...

Go Beyond the Transaction - Understand the Journey.