As part of our continuing mission to offer increasingly useful information to the Electronics Manufacturing Community, SMTnet.com has made substantial site improvements. Since its inception in late 1994 SMTnet has been committed to providing a useful medium of communication for our industry. With substantial improvements over time, we seek to place users at the center of an ever expanding well of relevant information. First we provided...
Budget cuts. Those two words cause stress on so many levels. It is more important than ever to be able to perform quality work with less expenditure. Do more with fewer people. Maintain quality performance while buying less...
Odd or SMD? At one time it was clear. An SMD component was placed on the surface of a PCB and all others were defined as 'odds' or 'specials'. For these components electronics manufacturers had to develop individual...
If the building were on fire, on the way out the door, I'd grab the picture of my wife from my desk and from the bookshelf my copies of Coombs' "Printed Circuit Handbook" and Kline-Wassink's...
"SMT High Density Design and DFM" is the best book on printed circuit board [PCB] design for manufacture [DFM] that is available. It is aimed at design, quality, and manufacturing engineers that have SMT components in their...
Marketing is an essential part of building a profitable business. Even if your customers come entirely from one customer telling another, your sales go nowhere unless you have a way to...
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Groundbreaking e-Learning System for PCB operators Speedline Global Services (SGS) has introduced a comprehensive curriculum of 29 new online courses designed to train operators involved in printed circuit board assembly. Considering that the most commonly used approach to instructing machine operators in the past has been on-the-job training, the new...
IPC Honors Members At IPC Annual Meeting IPC- Association Connecting Electronics Industries� honored 16 members at the IPC Annual Meeting in Orlando, FL, for their contributions to IPC and the electronics...
TSMC likely to cut capital spending from 2001 levels SAN JOSE -- Morris Chang, chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC), here this week indicated that business conditions are finally improving in the silicon foundry business, but he also dropped some pessimistic...
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The SMT Express is a periodical featuring assembly solutions from your peers and vendors. We, at SMTnet.com, have designed this newsletter to bring useful information to the mailboxes of electronics manufacturing professionals.
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