Industry News | 2020-05-18 13:37:47.0
Electronics manufacturing contributes powerfully to the U.S. economy, according to a new report released by IPC, the global electronics manufacturing industry association. The report finds the electronics manufacturing sector directly supports more than 1.3 million U.S. jobs.For every U.S. electronics manufacturing job,three other jobs are supported in the U.S. economy, contributing to a total of 5.3 million American jobs. Also, the industry indirectly and directly contributes $714 billion (3.7 percent) to U.S. GDP.
Industry News | 2003-09-11 16:50:12.0
The printed circuit board industry is an ever-changing marketplace. The technologies of today certainly aren�t standing still, and neither should today�s PCB designer
Industry News | 2010-06-30 12:22:22.0
Two IEEE standards on setting criteria for environmentally preferable electronic equipment will soon go to ballot: 1680.2 Draft Standard for Environmental Assessment of Imaging Equipment and 1680.3 Draft Standard for the Environmental Assessment of Televisions...
Industry News | 2011-12-14 15:47:27.0
Featuring new research and innovations in printed board design and manufacturing, electronics assembly and test, the IPC APEX EXPO® technical conference will be held at the San Diego Convention Center, February 28-March 1, 2012.
Industry News | 2012-01-22 23:16:58.0
More than 350 engineers who attended last week’s IPC webinar, Soldering and Assembly Defects, were polled on their biggest headaches with printed boards, PCB components and PCB assembly process failures. The survey results which identify solder finish, ball grid array (BGA) components and reflow soldering as the greatest challenges, provide webinar co-sponsor, National Physical Laboratory (NPL) of the United Kingdom with useful information as it prepares its NPL Process Defect Clinic for IPC APEX EXPO® 2012.
Industry News | 2012-08-02 11:47:58.0
The SMTA and Chip Scale Review magazine are pleased to announce the presentation line-up for the 9th Annual International Wafer-Level Packaging Conference.
Industry News | 2014-08-14 22:33:17.0
The 9th Annual Medical Electronics Symposium will be held at Marylhurst University near Portland, Oregon, on September 18-19, 2014. SMTA, iNEMI, MEPTEC and OregonBio have joined forces to host this year's international symposium, which will focus on advances in electronic technologies and advanced manufacturing, specifically targeting medical and bioscience applications.
Industry News | 2015-09-30 17:52:10.0
Count On Tools is pleased to announce the launch of the new QWIKTRAY system, developed to provide low-cost, custom matrix trays for many types of electronic components. The QWIKTRAY platform allows surface mount components to be picked up in a repeatable method when tape-and-reel is not available and standard JEDEC trays do not exist. Customers no longer have to place these components by hand.
Industry News | 2019-12-19 17:50:26.0
In a win for U.S. taxpayers, defense readiness, and the electronics industry supply chain, the U.S. House and Senate are poised this week to approve a defense spending bill that includes $5 million for research and development on the issues surrounding lead-free electronics in mission-critical applications.
Industry News | 2014-02-05 10:37:27.0
Isola Group has begun alpha testing of Tachyon, its new ultra-low loss product that is engineered to reduce insertion loss on high-peed digital designs. It is specifically being targeted for high-layer count backplanes for the growing 100 gigabit per second (Gbps) market that has channel data rates in excess of 25 Gbps.
