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Entrepreneurial Dutch Manufacturer Selects Valor’s Quality Management System
Valor Computerized Systems Ltd, a global provider of productivity improvement software across the printed circuit board design and manufacturing supply chain, has been selected for its vCheck Quality Management System by Nedap N.V, developers of security and electronic control units as well as automation, management and information systems for organisations in a wide variety of industry sectors.

Inc. Magazine Ranks MIRTEC Corp. as One of the Fastest Growing Companies in 2009
MIRTEC Corp., the AOI market leader in North America, announces that Inc. Magazine has recognized MIRTEC’s North American Sales and Service Division, MIRTEC Corp., as one of the fastest-growing companies in its third annual Inc. 5000 company ranking This program ranks America’s fastest-growing privately held companies based on revenue growth.

Link Hamson to exhibit innovative products at Southern Manufacturing & Electronics 2010.
Link Hamson, a long term supplier to the UK manufacturing industry of innovative production improvement solutions, will exhibit a number of different product lines at the Southern Manufacturing and Electronics Exhibition and feature Filtronic mobile filter systems.

FCT Assembly to Highlight a Range of New Pastes at APEX 2010
FCT Assembly to highlight its range of new solder pastes in booth 2317 at the upcoming IPC/APEX conference and exhibition, scheduled to take place April 6-8, 2010 at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Convention Center in Las Vegas.

DEK and Maxim SMT Technologies showcase latest innovations at Electronics Next 2010
DEK is preparing to showcase a comprehensive range of advanced technologies and processes at this year’s Electronics Next exhibition in conjunction with the company’s agent Maxim SMT Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Being held in New Delhi over February 24th – 26th

Featured Products

Three New Training Products from SMART Group
SMART Group provides all types of training mediums to assist the electronics industry and to support its regular seminars and workshops. In these difficult times the use of traditional and multimedia methods are essential to ensure engineers are trained to an acceptable standard.

New compact and intelligent conveyors from FlexLink
The new X45 and X45e conveyor platforms are easy to integrate and offers sophisticated yet simple controls design.

Sonoscan Expands Counterfeit Identification Menu
SonoLab®, the applications laboratory division of Sonoscan, has recently developed analytical techniques that bring to 25 the number of acoustically detectable features and characteristics used to separate counterfeit plastic IC packages from genuine packages.

ACE Intros N2 Spot Pre-Heat for Advanced Selective Soldering Applications
ACE Production Technologies announces the addition of Nitrogen (N2) Spot Pre-Heating capability to their popular KISS line of Selective Soldering machines. N2 Spot Pre-Heating joins a group of special application features available for KISS machines, which range from semi-automated to fully automated in-line capable selective soldering production systems.

Christopher Associates to Introduce New Dispensing Technology at PHOTON’s 5th Photovoltaic Technology Show 2010
Christopher Associates, a pioneering supplier and distributor to the photovoltaic industry, will introduce Tonsan dispensing systems for photovoltaic manufacturing applications in booth E8 at PHOTON’s upcoming 5th Photovoltaic Technology Show, the leading venue for photovoltaic manufacturing technologies in North America, scheduled to take place February 2-4, 2010 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

Exhibition Preview

A NEW day is dawning; National Electronics Week SA has arrived!
One of the most highly anticipated shows to ever grace South Africa’s electronics industry is now just weeks away. Promising to focus the attention of the global electronics industry on all things South African, March 9th – 10th will see electronics professionals from around the world assemble at Jo

 
Customer Testimonial

DEK Chooses ProWorks’ Manufacturing Enterprise Tool
As a company at the leading edge of manufacturing excellence and one that prides itself on deploying the latest tools and techniques in its manufacturing processes, it was important for DEK to select the correct Manufacturing Enterprise Tool when looking to replace our written work instructions with

 
Technical Article

Preventing PCB reliability from contamination with process optimisation
It is widely known that the use of conformal coatings in the electronics manufacturing process helps eliminate airborne contaminants such as dust and moisture as well as creating an effective barrier against chemical ingress. However, there are other sources of contamination that can adversely affec