Rochester, NY – EMA Design Automation, a provider of electronic design automation (EDA) solutions, has added PTC InterComm to its design tools. The suite of electronic design communication and collaboration products reportedly enable product design teams to hold accurate, in-depth design reviews while streamlining the process. The tools are helpful with distributed design teams or companies with heterogeneous design environments.

“InterComm is an integral part of the design methodology we use to solve the RoHS problem,” said Manny Marcano, president of EMA Design Automation. “We enable the entire product team to review designs for compliance, rather than just the CAD tool users.”

InterComm uses the Internet to address the problem of sharing complex design data. Anyone can view EDA designs created in different environments, including schematic, PCB and BOM data. This eliminates the need to learn CAD software or create other forms of output. Viewers can query intelligent design data and add comments or red-line changes that can be sent back to the user electronically. Only the EDA user can change the actual design files.

Minneapolis, MN -- The SMTA will be hosting a Job Center during SMTA International, in conjunction with ATExpo on Sept. 27 - 29, in Rosemont, IL.  The Job Center is asking local and national companies to submit job openings in the electronics manufacturing and supply industry.
 
The SMTA will provide booth space and a list of jobs available. Potential employees will be matched to the jobs available and will be given job descriptions and company contact information.  
 
SMTAI and ATExpo attendee job functions include:
* Administration
* Circuit/Systems Packaging Design, Circuit Design
* Engineering Management
* Engineering Support (Field Engineering, Technicians)
* Production, Manufacturing, Process Engineering
* Quality Control/Quality Assurance, Production Testing
* Research & Development
* Sales and Marketing
 
Send any job openings to Sis Sullivan (sis@smta.org) by September 16. 
Include your company name, job title and short description, job function (see above), number of openings, company contact info and preferred method of contact.

TOKYO – Flextronics will spend up to $500 million over the next 10 to 15 years to build its manufacturing infrastructure in India.

Flextronics’ president for Asia Pacific Peter Tan commented on expansion in Southeast Asia and China’s wage inflation during remarks at the Reuters Technology and Telecoms Summit in Tokyo.

 

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Willow Grove, PA – The Kulicke & Soffa facility in Suzhou, China, has expanded its manufacturing capabilities to produce dicing hub blades and test sockets, in addition to its existing capillary and cantilever probe card product lines. The facility has invested nearly $8 million in equipment and dedicated over 20,000 sq. ft. in its existing plant to the new product lines. 
 
This will now be the company’s largest test socket manufacturing site, hosting over 1,000 employees.