MINNEAPOLIS -- Dr. Denis Barbini took home top honors at the SMTA Pan Pacific Microelectronics Symposium last month.
The paper, "Lead Free Wave Soldering: Process Optimization for
Simple to Highly Complex Boards," won Best of Conference, as rated by attendees. The paper covers how critical wave soldering
parameters correlate and provide information necessary to make educated
decisions in selecting materials.
Barbini is advanced technology manager at Vitronics-Soltec, and a member of the SMTA board.
LOS ANGELES – Valor Computerized Systems announced the implementation of vPlan, its new process engineering software, at EMS provider Mack Technologies.
Mack beta’d vPlan, and the results led to a corporate-wide order once the product was released, Valor said.
In a press release, Steve Barbera, VP of technical operations at Mack, said, “vPlan’s ability to autogenerate machine data on the fly for multiple machine types saves us a significant amount of debug time on the production floor, improves our SMT line efficiency, and makes it extremely easy to adopt new SMT machines and transfer jobs between lines and even sites. It allows us to focus on our business-critical functional workflow rather than deal with low-level scripting at the CAM level.”
LOS ANGELES – iNEMI today announced its 2007 iNEMI Roadmap will be available to industry next month. The latest edition of the biennial document charts electronics manufacturing’s technology and infrastructure needs through 2017. It also discusses market convergence, miniaturization, harmonization of environmental requirements, migration of manufacturing and R&D, reliability, printed electronics and more.
LOS ANGELES -- Traffic was up somewhat on the second day of the IPC Apex show, to the relief of exhibitors who were beginning to show some frustration with the downtown Los Angeles site.
Purchasers take note: Cookson’s Steve Corbett and Henkel’s Pat Trippel separately stressed that the precious metals markets are running wild. “The tin market situation is scary,” noted Corbett, noting the shutdowns in Indonesia and market uncertainty in Bolivia – two primary suppliers.
LOS ANGELES -- Placement, placement, placement. It’s the most expensive machine on the line, and at Apex the OEMs showed once again why that’s the case.