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BERWYN, PA – Tyco Electronics Ltd. is eliminating about 100 North American jobs, about half from two Pennsylvania facilities.
The firm cites diminished demand from the automotive and consumer appliance industries.
Workers from facilities in North Carolina, Michigan, Mexico and Canada also will be affected, said Tyco spokesman Mike Ratcliff, according to published reports.
The company plans to move some manufacturing from Harrisburg, PA to nearby Waynesboro, as well as Mount Sidney, VA.
The firm employs 92,000 globally and makes electrical components and telecommunications equipment.
BANNOCKBURN, IL – IPC will hold a conference on November 6 at the Wyndham Hotel DFW, Irving, TX, to discuss the details of the IPC-9592 power conversion standard: Requirements for Power Conversion Devices for the Computer and Telecommunications Industries.
The meeting will outline the process and input that went into developing this first-ever power conversion standard, which is in its final stages. The conference agenda will cover power conversion product attributes, including product specifications and document requirements; design for reliability; design and qualification testing, and manufacturing conformance testing.
The committee members for the standard will present the sessions. These volunteer members – representing Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco Systems, Dell Inc., Emerson Network Power, Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM, Lineage Power and Murata Power Solutions – will describe the logic used to craft each chapter.
For more information, visit www.ipc.org/9592conference.
YAVNE, ISRAEL – Orbotech Ltd., maker of AOI equipment, said net income for the second quarter rose to $5.3 million, compared with a loss of $3.4 million in the same quarter last year.
The company attributes its swing to a profit to improved flat panel equipment sales.
Revenue was $105.1 million, up 15.7% year-over-year, Orbotech said.
Sales of flat panel display inspection equipment nearly tripled to $29.8 million, while revenue from PCB equipment fell 22.3% to $34.5 million.
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