Keith Bryant, Global Director of Electronic Sales, Yxlon International, Hamburg, Germany   Within electronics manufacturing and failure analysis inspection, 2D inspection is the primary method of X-ray inspection and, traditionally, systems were only offering this. CT or 3D then became an option and quality varied dramatically depending on many factors including quality of image, stability
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With more than 60 years of experience as well as premium high-tech components and systems, the Comet Group enables customers in numerous industries to both enhance the quality of their products and make their manufacturing more efficient and eco-friendly. We recent met with Paul Smith, Senior Vice President of Global Product Marketing, to learn more
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Anda, established in 1999 with headquarters located at Dongguan China, is a world leader in the manufacturing of Assembly, Plasma treatment, Fluid Dispensing, Selective Conformal Coating, Assembly Machines, UV Curing Ovens, IR Curing Ovens, Process Lines, Linear Motors and Complete Automation Solutions for the EMS industry. Anda has more than 1,000 employees worldwide. However, the
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By Freddie Chan, KIC   In my job, I spend a significant amount of time visiting customers to gain insight into the challenges they face, what they are trying to achieve, what makes them successful and more. I need this insight to help them improve, and to provide input to our R&D team for future
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By Michael Bowling   Headquartered outside Atlanta, GA, Trenton Systems Inc. is a global leader in the design and manufacture of board-level products and integrated computer systems to address the critical needs of industries such as government and defense, test and measurement, industrial automation, GPU computing, medical, video display walls, communications, video processing and energy.
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Founded in 1987, Virtual Industries Inc. is headquartered in Colorado Springs, CO by Owners Tom Mealey and Daren Palmer. For 30 years, Virtual Industries has been a leading supplier of manual vacuum handling solutions to the world’s high-technology firms. The company’s patented ESD-safe products are used by Class I clean room personnel, electronic assemblers, semiconductor
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By Freddie Chan, KIC   Two of today’s most important areas of focus in the electronics manufacturing industry are equipment utilization and defect elimination. Equipment utilization because, in many assembly operations, this is the single biggest contributor to cost or profit improvements. Eliminating defects is important because poor quality is expensive and a growing segment
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By Ed Nauss, Global Account Manager, SMT Business Group, Yamaha Motor IM   Since the company’s founding in 1973, Technical Services Inc., the Pacific Northwest’s first EMS, has built a lot of product for many different industries. The company has gone from hand assembly to high-speed production manufacturing and assembly using today’s most challenging components.
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Lauri Märtin, SMA Engineer, Enics Eesti AS; Kristjan Piir, Manufacturing Technology Manager, Enics Eesti AS. Keith Bryant, X-ray Sales Director, Yxlon International GmbH   INTRODUCTION Enics with world-class electronics manufacturing services is the partner of choice for many global electronics companies. As one of the largest EMS providers in the world, they supply customers in
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The LED market must surely represent one of the fastest growing sectors within the electronics industry and LEDs are now utilised in all types of lighting, signage and domestic appliance products. LEDs offer many advantages over traditional lighting in the form of adaptability, lifetime, design and efficiency and represent a real alternative to halogen, incandescent
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