Industry News | 2014-07-24 15:14:50.0
FCT Assembly is pleased to announce that it has hired a Mechanical Engineer for the A-Laser division.
Technical Library | 2021-06-07 19:06:32.0
The technological growth of the last decades has brought many improvements in daily life, but also concerns on how to deal with electronic waste. Electrical and electronic equipment waste is the fastest-growing rate in the industrialized world. One of the elements of electronic equipment is the printed circuit board (PCB) and almost every electronic equipment has a PCB inside it. While waste PCB (WPCB) recycling may result in the recovery of potentially precious materials and the reuse of some components, it is a challenging task because its composition diversity requires a cautious pre-processing stage to achieve optimal recycling outcomes. Our research focused on proposing a method to evaluate the economic feasibility of recycling integrated circuits (ICs) from WPCB. The proposed method can help decide whether to dismantle a separate WPCB before the physical or mechanical recycling process and consists of estimating the IC area from a WPCB, calculating the IC's weight using surface density, and estimating how much metal can be recovered by recycling those ICs. To estimate the IC area in a WPCB, we used a state-of-the-art object detection deep learning model (YOLO) and the PCB DSLR image dataset to detect the WPCB's ICs. Regarding IC detection, the best result was obtained with the partitioned analysis of each image through a sliding window, thus creating new images of smaller dimensions, reaching 86.77% mAP. As a final result, we estimate that the Deep PCB Dataset has a total of 1079.18 g of ICs, from which it would be possible to recover at least 909.94 g of metals and silicon elements from all WPCBs' ICs. Since there is a high variability in the compositions of WPCBs, it is possible to calculate the gross income for each WPCB and use it as a decision criterion for the type of pre-processing.
Industry News | 2016-01-12 01:45:47.0
Yamaha Motor IM announced today that Alpha ('Alpha Metals') has chosen the YAMAHA YCP10 High-Performance Compact Printer for purchase and installation at a key laboratory facility in New Jersey. After rigorous print testing, the YCP10 demonstrated the ability to deliver the consistent printing results that the Alpha evaluators were seeking.
Industry News | 2001-10-12 06:18:13.0
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Industry News | 2011-05-23 15:11:40.0
Essemtec France has been operational since the beginning of 2011 and will be technically and administratively independent from Essemtec Switzerland by the third quarter this year. Adrian Schärli spoke with Georges Bouvier, Business Manager, about the reasons for founding Essemtec France, his targets and the future vision.
Industry News | 2011-02-17 14:55:11.0
Essemtec, the Swiss manufacturer of surface mount technology production equipment, announces its strengthened presence in France. Effective January 3, 2011, Essemtec France sarl. replaced Prodelectronic, the company’s current representative. George Bouvier is the Business Manager of Essemtec's latest daughter company.
Industry News | 2015-01-21 21:24:29.0
KYZEN will exhibit in Booth #1905 at HOUSTEX, scheduled to take place Feb. 24-26, 2015 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, TX. KYZEN’s team will showcase METALNOX® M6380, M6381 and M6318 specifically formulated for removing tough soils and cleaning metal parts used in the metal finishing, industrial and tooling industries.
Industry News | 2018-02-05 21:17:32.0
Yamaha Motor Corporation, USA announces the launch of ALF, the auto-loading feeder that revolutionizes feeding tape components by eliminating reliance on user skill. With ALF, any operator can easily supply tape components by merely inserting the tape itself without the need for splicing or complex routing of the tape throught the feeder, and all without stopping the machine or interrupting production.
Industry News | 2003-08-05 14:31:57.0
The next step along path to profitable growth will result in the layoff of about 325 employees.
Industry News | 2015-01-25 16:08:30.0
A-Laser is pleased to announce the panel of technical speakers who will be presenting on Laser Direct Structuring (LDS) and Molded Interconnect Devices (MIDs) during the FREE technical event on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015 at its facility in Milpitas, CA.