Circuits Assembly Online Magazine - Features

TRENCIN, SLOVAKIA – AU Optronics has opened a plant here, its second European site for large-sized LCD display production.

DUNFERMILINE, SCOTLAND -- Simclar Group's UK operations went into administration yesterday as creditors moved to protect their loans to the contract electronics manufacturer.

ARLINGTON, VA -- The National Association of Manufacturers has issued a statement in support of H.R. 1249, the America Invents Act.

TOKYO -- Japan-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment said 90-day average bookings were ¥119,148 million, up 4.4% over revised April levels and 12.2% from last year.

WASHINGTON – President Obama today announced a national initiative to invest in emerging technologies to create jobs and increase US global competitiveness.

The Advanced Manufacturing Partnership aims to unite industry, universities and the federal government to concentrate on building manufacturing capabilities in national security industries; diminishing the time required to create advanced materials used in manufacturing products; establishing US robotic leadership; increasing manufacturing process energy efficiency, and developing new technologies that will reduce the time required to design, build and test manufactured goods.

More than $500 million will be allocated to start this effort, including investments on small high-powered batteries, advanced composites, metal fabrication, bio-manufacturing and alternative energy.

This summer, the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, Energy, Agriculture and Commerce have set a goal of $300 million in funding.

BOLTON, MA – Electronic data transfer formats, vital as they are, are guaranteed to elicit yawns, if not outright derision, from users. But that history isn’t deterring an industry task group from attempting to tackle the now three-decades-old problem of unintelligent schematic files.