A new system performs both ICT and boundary scan in high-volume settings.
A solid state drive or disk is a data storage device that functions like the traditional hard disk drives and is used on tablet PCs, laptops, servers and network storage for cloud computing.
Assemblers demand a complete CAD data package for more effective manufacturing.
Panelization, also known as the processing of boards in an array format, keeps small boards attached to each other within a single, larger substrate.
Results of a cross-industry team’s development and testing of a PCB-based embedded chip technology for an under-the-hood automotive application.
Over the past five years, laminated-based chip embedding has taken a huge step toward industrialization. Meanwhile different products in the low- and medium-power application are commercially available.
Stencil design software has evolved from simple rule checkers to custom, sophisticated engineering tools.
QFNs, microBGAs and 0201s keep showing up everywhere. They used to appear only on boards requiring miniaturization; now they are used on revisions of legacy products, bringing a new set of headaches for process engineers.
The electronics assembly industry (along with a few fabricators) agrees that better times are ahead in 2014.
IPC Apex Expo in late March was judged by most to be a success, with attendance showing some signs of life, and a lot of machines listed SOLD signs. It was difficult to say whether there’s a consensus about moving back to San Diego next year or staying in Las Vegas, where the show was this year.
Faced with a doubling of its workforce, a new production schedule emerges.
One of the big hurdles in the reshoring trend is recruiting new talent as jobs come back. After two decades of focus on growing the service economy while watching manufacturing move offshore, the pool of trained production workers has shrunk dramatically.
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