New York -- Dover Electronics has acquired Colder Products Co. (St. Paul, MN). Colder will join the Components Group of companies within Dover Electronics, a subsidiary of Dover Corp.
 
Colder a designer and manufacturer of plastic quick disconnect couplings and specialized liquid and gas handling devices for low pressure plastic tubing connections. Colder sells its products in the life sciences/medical, specialty industrial and chemical/food dispensing markets. The company expects to generate sales of nearly $50 million in 2005.

TORONTO -- Celestica Inc. has acquired CoreSim, a Canadian-based provider of advanced design analysis and redesign services. CoreSim will strengthen Celestica's design services by adding intellectual property, including its engineering tools and processes for electronic design projects. CoreSim currently provides services to some of the world's leading OEMs.

CoreSim will offer its proprietary tool, Schematic Modeling, that identifies wiring and technology issues in schematics. It provides design analysis which independently verifies and validates pre-layout customer designs to assist in keeping engineering projects on-time and within budget. 

Bangalore, India — Two Indian PCB design companies have been acquired by overseas companies, in unrelated deals announced last week, strengthening the possibility that the country may become a major electronics manufacturing location.

DES PLAINES, IL —Kester will host a course featuring RoHS/Lead-free training on August 23 and 24 at its Des Plaines facility.

The training gives updated information and practical experience to enable rapid, effective implementation of Pb-free assembly. Will include practical demonstrations of Pb-free assembly and rework process assembly.

On Aug.23, attendees will receive classroom instruction on lead-free alloy selection for SMT; flux-critical selection parameters; equipment requirements; component and board finishes; paste in-hole with lead-free; solderability and how to enhance it; troubleshooting the lead-free SMT process; and thermal profiling for lead-free assemblies. Lunch and a networking session will be provided. Classroom instruction will also focus on compatibility issues; BGA lead-free attach; pin testability and inspection; reliability of SMT joints; preventing and reducing defects; reworking lead-free solder joints; and thermo-gravimetric analysis (TGA) of fluxes and the impact on process.

The half-day session on Aug. 24 provides attendees with a hands-on application session for lead-free SMT process implementation. Attendees are encouraged to bring their boards/application for a lead-free solution .

Attendees will receive a Project 2005: Achieving Lead-Free RoHS Assembly Technical Manual and the Lead-Free Connection Newsletter.

For info. on technical content of the seminars, contact: Peter Biocca, Kester, 972-390-1197 or pbiocca@kester.com. For general info., contact Shirley Wood, Kester, 800-253-7837 or kesteruniversity@kester.com.

TEMPE, AZ – The manufacturing sector grew for the 26th straight month in July as the slowdown in May is looking more like a blip than a trend. New orders and production both saw higher rates of growth, according to the latest Institute for Supply Management (ism.ws) poll.

TORONTO -- Celestica Inc., a top tier electronics manufacturing services provider, today announced that it has acquired Ramnish Electronics, an EMS provider located in Hyderabad, India. Celestica will relocate and expand the company's operations in Hyderabad area later this year.

Terms were not disclosed.

VANCOUVER -- Nam Tai Electronics reported second-quarter net income of $6 million on sales of $185 million, a company record for quarterly sales.

For the June quarter, the EMS provider's sales were up 25.5% year-over-year, while net income fell 92.8%. In Q2 2004, the company received a one-time gain of $71 million from the IPO of one of its subsidiaries. Gross profit was up 7% to $23.8 million.

BEIJING -- A merger of several of state-owned electronics firms will create the nation's largest electronics concern, various news outlets reported today.

China Electronics Corp. and China Great Wall Computer Group are among more than a half-dozen firms that will merge into the new comglomerate. The group received government approval earlier this week.

TORONTO – In its second acquisition in as many days, Celestica has bought CoreSim, a provider of design analysis and redesign services. The move will strengthen Celestica’s design services by adding intellectual property in the form of unique engineering tools and processes.

Rochester, NY– EMA Design Automation and AEi Systems have released the Power IC Model Library. The PSpice library incorporates over 150 time-domain simulation models for power electronic designs and gives designers the ability to plug in a model, representative of the actual IC, and simulate the switching performance under actual operating conditions.

“Many EDA vendors only have access to information in the data sheets, which is not sufficient when modeling a controller or regulator,” said Charles Hymowitz, managing director of AEi. “The data sheets simply do not have the level of detail required, and companies who rely solely on data sheet input produce substandard and inaccurate models.”

The models in this library enable designers to perform high-speed, cycle-by-cycle simulations to show true large-signal performance, simulate current-mode control using accurate modeling techniques, run CCM and DCM converter simulations, generate line and load step responses, and measure power stage loss and stress analysis for all major components.

The models are compared and verified with bench data under startup, steady state, line, and load transient conditions. Nonlinear characteristics such as propagation delay, switching speed, drive capability, maximum duty cycle/current limits and startup phenomena are all accurately modeled. Designers can directly compare the performance of components from various vendors and analyze the effects of different implementations such as peak current mode control, hysteric current control, low voltage and low operating current.

A list of components is available at ema-eda.com.

NORWALK, OH -- In July, EPIC Technologies completed the certification process for ISO 13485:2003 in its Norwalk and two Juarez, Mexico, facilities. It has also completed surveillance audits and recertified these facilities to the ISO/TS 16949:2002 standard.

ISO 13485:2003 is a quality management standard for medical device manufacturers. ISO/TS 16949:2002 was developed to support the automotive industry.

"While ISO 13485:2003 and ISO/TS 16949 are valued by medical and automotive customers because they address industry-specific quality issues, we also recognize that each of these standards drives further development of best practices in the areas of performance measurement and standardization. ISO/TS 16949 drives additional focus in the area of customer satisfaction measurement and integration of those results into focused continuous improvement efforts. The practices we adopted in support of these certifications continue to strengthen our internal systems company wide," said Jochen Lipp, VP operations and COO, EPIC Technologies.

HERNDON, VA —The International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (iNEMI.org) will host an Innovation Leadership Forum intended to stimulate innovation and manufacturing research for the electronics industry.

Held in Herndon on Sept. 15-16, the objective is help focus limited R&D resources to ensure development of the innovative technologies required to maintain the growth of the electronics industry over the next decade.

“The rapid globalization of high-tech innovation and manufacturing has caused several notable industry leaders to express serious concerns about the future competitiveness of our industrial infrastructure,” said Bob Pfahl, vice president of iNEMI.