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COLORADO SPRINGS, CO – Photo Stencil has expanded capacity and capability at its Penang, Malaysia, plant.

The company recently installed two laser cutting systems at its Malaysian facility, including a Tannlin T3 system and a Tannlin T6 fiber laser.

Photo Stencil maintains manufacturing facilities in the US, Mexico and Malaysia.

MINNEAPOLIS – CyberOptics Corp. said its 3-D post-print inspection head SE500 sensor has been integrated into Milara’s TouchPrint Digital TD2929 inline printer.

The SE500 sensor is capable of scan speeds of greater than 80 cm²/sec., and is manufactured as an integrated assembly with no moving parts. The system features telecentric optics for X-Y measurement.

“We are not a 3-D post-print inspection company. We have our own flavor of texture-based 2-D post-print inspection, and have been constantly seeking an outside source to integrate a high-speed/stable 3-D option that is capable of generating viable results. CyberOptics combines not only accuracy, but speed that, in the realm of automation, is most difficult to attain,” said Stephen Brodeur, program director at Milara.

SWEDEN – Top 40 EMS firm PartnerTech reported 2009 net sales of SEK 2.15 billion ($298.4 million), down 15% year-over-year.

CHICAGO – An upcoming conference in Chicago will focus on SCADA security and penetration techniques. The “open workshop” will include discussions, briefings of recent security incidents, and slide presentations on prevention against hacking of PLC, RTU, and other embedded instrumentation and controls, conference organizers say.

Attendees will participate in “red teaming” exercises and security countermeasure techniques. The organizers of the not-for-profit conference said attendees will be encouraged to develop policies and standard ethical positions.

“The reason we're doing this is because most of the R&D is not getting out in the open in any form. We're not eager to make anyone look bad, but at the same time, we need to figure where the fragile parts of common embedded systems are, how we can mitigate these problems, and what to tune our intrusion monitoring systems to,” said one of the organizers.

The group seeks embedded system developers, particularly software, and hardware developers willing to discuss broad-based issues with end-users, IT security professionals and others.

The event takes place May 14-15.

For more information, visit http://gathering.infracritical.com.