PLYMOUTH, WI — April 2017 — Kurtz Ersa North America, a leading supplier of electronics production equipment, will exhibit at the SMTA Wisconsin Expo & Tech Forum, scheduled to take place Tuesday, May 2, 2017 Milwaukee Airport Crowne Plaza in Milwaukee, WI. The Ersa team will highlight the 2017 NPI award-winning HR 550 hybrid rework system and the Smartflow selective solder system.

Europlacer is pleased to announce the appointment of Globaltech Automation Inc. based in Manila with a branch office in Cebu as the company’s new Philippines distributor for its highly flexible range of placement machines and Warehouse Management System (WMS) solution products.

Carlsbad, CA, USA – April 2017 – Nordson YESTECH, a subsidiary of Nordson Corporation (NASDAQ: NDSN) and a leading supplier of automated optical and conformal coat inspection systems for the electronics industry, recently installed a FX-940 ULTRA 3D AOI system at FormFactor, Inc. (NASDAQ:FORM) in Carlsbad.

The “8 Waste” methodology of lean management principles focuses on lab processes in a new METTLER TOLEDO guide and offers a useful way to identify non-value adding or unnecessary steps in routine workflows. Commonly performed tasks benefit from streamlining in terms of productivity and cost savings.