ORLANDO, Jan. 4 -- A subsidiary of Dover Corp. has purchased Datamax Corp., a supplier of bar code and RFID printers. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Dover is a $5 billion OEM of industrial equipment. Among its holdings is Universal Instruments.

Dover previously announced plans to expand its subsidiary structure from four to six market segments and realign its 49 operating businesses into 13 business groups.

HERNDON, VA, Jan. 3 — The National Electronics Manufacturing Initiative consortium today changed its name to the International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative, or iNEMI.

"As a member-driven organization, we evolve to meet the demands of the changing industry landscape, which means our focus is becoming more global," says Jim McElroy, executive director and CEO, in a press statement. "[W]e have chosen a new name that retains some of our hard-earned brand recognition while signaling our move to a broader geographic scope."

McElroy said the iNEMI board has consistently guided the consortium toward a more global perspective. The organization opened its membership to all North American companies in 1996 and in 2004 actively recruited international participation in several activities.

Furthermore, the 2004 iNEMI technology roadmap marked the first time the group actively recruited participation from Asia and Europe.

The consortium has also revised its bylaws amd meeting structure to incorporate companies in Asia and Europe.

The PPM Project, sponsored by SMART Group and the U.K. Department of Trade and Industry, seeks to measure defect levels of tin/lead and lead-free assemblies. The groups will use parts per million defective as the main metric. Companies across Europe will be included in the study, which will be based on existing product acceptability methods to ensure results can be easily compared.

In a press statement, the groups said that "a common question is, How does my process compare with other companies' in terms of yield? The information did not exist or was not easily available to small and medium volume companies until the launch of the project."

IPC and IEC standards will be used to support the PPM evaluation, the groups said.

The PPM Project is part of LeadOut, an effort to inform and prepare electronics manufacturers for lead-free products. Results will be available from the LeadOut Website soon. For more information contact technical@smartgroup.org.

The agreement is subject to approval by Tecnomatix shareholders and regulatory authorities.

Under the terms, Tecnomatix shareholders will receive $17 per share in cash, a premium of 39% over Tecnomatix's average closing price over the last 60 trading days.

Tecnomatix's board has unanimously approved the deal.