WASHINGTON – Global semiconductor industry sales totaled $573.5 billion in 2022, the highest-ever annual total and an increase of 3.2% compa... Read More...
PEACHTREE CITY, GA – CIRCUITS ASSEMBLY today opened registration for its annual Service Excellence Awards (SEAs) for EMS providers and elect... Read More...
NEEDHAM, MA – Worldwide tablet shipments posted flat growth of 0.3% year over year in the fourth quarter of 2022, totaling 45.7 million unit... Read More...
TORONTO – Contract manufacturer Celestica is laying off 44 workers at its Silicon Valley facilities. Read More...
BANNOCKBURN, IL – Some 75% of electronics manufacturers are experiencing rising material costs, while 74% indicate that labor costs are on t... Read More...
GLENVIEW, IL – ITW's Test Measurement and Electronics segment saw $732 million in revenue for the fourth quarter, marking a 10% increase f... Read More...
TEMPE, AZ – Benchmark Electronics announced fourth quarter revenue of $751 million, a 19% increase from the fourth quarter of 2021. Read More...
STAMFORD, CT – Worldwide shipments of total devices (PCs, tablets and mobile phones) are projected to decline 4.4% in 2023, to total 1.7 bil... Read More...
SPOKANE VALLEY, WA – For the second quarter of its fiscal year, Key Tronic Corporation reported revenue of $123.7 million, compared to $134.... Read More...
What owners should do to ensure an attractive price when they sell their company. It’s not easy owning an EMS company these days ... if it ever actually was. A... Read More...
The connection between flux and reflow ovens is obvious, but are there ties to stills and race cars too? When my wife and I moved to Raleigh, NC, we soon reali... Read More...
Buoyed by acquisitions and a resplendent new flagship manufacturing center, the French EMS is prepping for a sustainable future. In October 2021, France Presid... Read More...
A basic process for revising a client-supplied CAD database. Not all designs start from scratch. Not all designs start with a schematic and then “ECO’ing” it i... Read More...
Material properties and considerations of a eutectic SnBi solid wire and SAC 305 flux cored wire. Low-temperature (LT), high-bismuth solders are being carefull... Read More...
New technology from Safi-Tech means cold solder joints might no longer mean defects. I’ve been covering the soldering industry for more than 30 years. During t... Read More...
The path to digitize a factory is both closer and cheaper than most engineers realize. Reshoring has been a buzzword for a few years now. But when supply chain... Read More...
A solution for flux-free formic acid reflow? Growing performance demands for power electronics systems, driven by rapid advancements in application areas su... Read More...
Data-driven processes require IP coordination among vendors – and that means humans. We hear a lot these days about smart manufacturing, but is there a broad c... Read More...
Kyocera AVX's SCC Series supercapacitors are tested and qualified to the AEC-Q200 standard to meet mechanical and electrical conditions common in automotive app... Read More...
Vishay Intertechnology's T51 automotive grade series of vPolyTan surface-mount polymer tantalum molded chip capacitors are designed to deliver improved performa... Read More...
Delo's Delolux 301 is a lamp for curing adhesives and other multi-functional polymers that is suitable for highly automated processes in small and narrow produc... Read More...
Aven’s Wide-View UV Magnifier includes ultraviolent and white LEDs and features a 3.6 x 1.7” rectangular glass. Read More...
Dispense Works' RPX Series robotic dispensing machine is designed to provide the ideal foundation for precision assembly, dispensing and custom solutions requir... Read More...
ASMPT's Virtual Assist is an AI-based expert system offering support for all onboarding, service ,and maintenance activities in electronics production. Read More...
TechnoDigm's All-in-one LED UV Curing System combines a UV chamber, touchscreen panel, and operating system in a compact design. Read More...
ECD's M.O.L.E. EV6 is the market’s first traveling thermal profiler with operation via a capacitive touchscreen. Read More...
Saki's 3Xi-M110 V3 model delivers cycle times more than twice as fast as previously possible and features upgraded accuracy ensuring cleaner results untarnished... Read More...