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Positive Outlook from Exhibitors at IPC Midwest 2009
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The recent IPC Midwest Conference & Exhibition in Schaumburg, IL was a small but important showcase of companies in the SMT/PCB Industry. The exhibition was coupled with many technical conferences and special events. On the show floor, highlights included a working assembly line that included:
The event, held September 23 & 24 at the Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel & Convention Center near Chicago, offered a myriad of opportunities for learning and business development. Many show announcements were made:
Keeping relationships strong The trade show floor again provided a good place for suppliers to meet with vendors and consumers. Company after company we met with echoed the fact that they had many meetings set up with existing customers and potential leads. So, while the traffic at the show was not heavy, quality meetings connecting existing relationships were abundant everywhere. Marketing on the Internet - A new industry understanding? SMTnet spoke with many companies at this years show about their internet marketing efforts and found that a new understanding may finally be starting to happen in our industry. As a whole, the SMT industry lags behind many other industries in terms of investment in web opportunities. However, our meetings at the IPC Midwest show this year indicate companies are at least beginning to understand the importance of being visible on the web and in the major search engines like Google, Yahoo & MSN. Steve Pollock, Vice President from Essemtec explained, "I used to get many quality leads every month when our website was on the first two pages of Google, Yahoo & MSN for many terms. Now, our search engine visibility has decreased and the amount of leads deriving from the internet have decreased significantly." On a positive note, Mike Konrad from Aqueous Technologies noted that his advertising on SMTnet.com drives almost double the leads he gets from any other industry site. In addition, Mike also told SMTnet that his experiment with selling online seems to be working quite well with a piece of equipment selling recently through his ecommerce system for $10,000. "Selling the equipment online is an experiment I'm doing right now -I'm selling some equipment significantly cheaper online since it allows my company to save on the sales & billing cycles necessary for a normal sale." |
Industry Leaders' Comments
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Jacob H. Paster, Vice President
Gary Goldberg, President and CEO
John Perrotta, USA Sales Manager
Mike Konrad, President
Steve Pollock, Vice President IPC Midwest Featured Exhibitors
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CEE buys and sells used smt (surface mount) equipment for PCB assembly. Other services for Electronics Manufacturing include appraisals, residual value analysis, remarketing, and liquidations.
CEE demonstrated a re-conditioned running Speedline MPM AP Excel screen printer in the A-Line Live Assembly Line. See also: Current inventory of equipment. |
Leading supplier of precision cleaning chemistries to the worldwide electronics, metal finishing, medical, semiconductor, and optical industries.
New aqueous cleaning solution designed with a revolutionary inhibition technology to be effective on the toughest soils while protecting even the most sensitive parts from etch or darkening. Kyzen will be also present at the upcoming SMTAI exhibition in booth #203 and Productronica trade fair in hall A2, booth #340 |
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RMD has been a designer and manufacturer of XRF and other scientific technologies since 1974. In addition to the electronics industry, RMD produces instrumentation for the medical and applied sciences industries.
The most effective XRF system designed specifically for screening of all RoHS/WEEE and common elements in electronics including China RoHS. RMD Instruments will be also present at the upcoming SMTAI exhibition in booth #514 and Productronica trade fair in hall A2, booth #540 |
Full service provider of printed circuit board handling solutions, robotic soldering systems, custom automated work cells, and technical work benches.
Automatic, versatile next generation label placement system that allows for high resolution labels to be generated and placed onto circuit boards with exceptional accuracy. |
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Europlacer manufactures a comprehensive range of highly flexible SMT placement systems for the global electronics industry.
Widely configurable placement system featuring extremely high feeder count, largest industry board size and increased maximum component height. The system can accommodate up to 264 x 8 mm tape positions and, in addition, an internal waffle tray zone allows for up to 10 JEDEC trays on the single head version and 3 JEDEC trays on the dual heads version. Europlacer will be also present at the upcoming SMTAI exhibition in booth #616 and Productronica trade fair in hall A2, booth #439 |
Manufacturer of a variety of award winning cleaning and cleaning related products. Our cleaners are capable of removing all flux/paste types including Rosin, Water Soluble & removes no-clean solder paste.
Ionic contamination (cleanliness) tester for ionic contamination testing of populated and bare PCB's See also: Aqueous University - depositary of technical information concerning defluxing and cleanliness testing. Aqueous Technologies will be also present at the upcoming SMTAI exhibition in booth #408 and Productronica trade fair in hall A2, booth #559 |
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World leader in SMT production equipment for the low/midsize volume market. The only manufacturer to cover the entire production process, from printers and/or dispensers, to pick and place and soldering equipment...
The most popular highly flexible pick+place machine for NPI. Available with Cognex vision for fine pitch IC up to 50x50 mm. Intelligent, programmable feeders can be exchanged during operation. Available in two sizes for board size 400x300 mm or 700x600 mm. Essemtec will be also present at the upcoming Productronica trade fair in hall A3, booth #358 |
Manufacturer of desktop, in-line (AOI) automatic optical inspection, and real-time x-ray inspection equipment.
In-line AOI system with advanced four mega pixel digital color camera technology that provides the ultimate inspection performance and speed. Mirtec also featured MS-11 in-line SPI system that uses Shadow Moiré technology and phase stepping image processing to inspect solder paste deposition on PCBs post-print. Mirtec will be also present at the upcoming SMTAI exhibition in booth #428 and Productronica trade fair in hall A2, booth #377 |
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Leading provider of yield improving inspection solutions, 3D solder paste inspection and automated optical inspection (AOI) systems, for the global electronic assembly and semiconductor capitol equipment markets.
The fastest, most accurate new 100% 3-D solder paste inspection system with the ability to inspect the most demanding assemblies with a >80 cm2/second inspection speed. CyberOptics will be also present at the upcoming Productronica trade fair in hall A2, booth #417 |
World leader in the design and manufacturing of state-of-the-art surface mount assembly equipment.
Large board all-in-one-placement system. The XPF-W can assemble a full 20" X 27" board with a full range of components in a single machine. |
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Leading manufacturer of soldering materials for the electronic assembly industries. This global presence has allowed Qualitek to offer Quick turnarounds and unsurpassed customer support for over 20 years.
Unique no-clean Pb free solder paste with 0% ppm total halogens. Qualitek International will be also present at the upcoming SMTAI exhibition in booth #710 |
Global supplier of surface mount technology pick & place equipment. Assembléon is a trustworthy partner, providing full application support, training and services.
Multifunctional placement platform with the highest available IPC 9850 placement rates of 121,000 components per hour. Assembléon will be also present at the upcoming Productronica trade fair in hall A2, booth #477 |
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DEK is the world's leading provider of advanced pre-placement manufacturing solutions for the electronics circuit board assembly and semiconductor industries.
Printing system engineered to deliver exceptional manufacturing flexibility, outstanding performance and a future-proofed investment. DEK will be also present at the upcoming Productronica trade fair in hall A2, booth #405 |
Manufacturer of automated optical inspection (AOI) systems for bare and assembled PCBs, FPDs, and imaging solutions for PCB production.
Using Orbotech's unique UCI Technology�, Inkjet legend printers allow printing and curing on the same system, saving valuable production time and costs, and increasing yields. Orbotech will be also present at the upcoming Productronica trade fair in hall B2, booth #221 |
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MYDATA automation designs, manufactures and markets SMT process equipment for the electronics industry.
Pick and place system ideally suited for high-mix production with the capacity for up to 176 feeders. MYDATA will be also present at the upcoming Productronica trade fair in hall A3, booth #339 |
Leading supplier of SMT automated assembly equipment to the printed circuit board assembly market. Since 1987, Juki has shipped more than 10,000 SMT systems.
Selective solder machine able to handle dual mini-waves for simultaneous or individual use. Juki Automation Systems will be also present at the upcoming SMTAI exhibition in booth #205 and Productronica trade fair in hall A3, booth #134 |
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One of the world's leading suppliers of reliable, advanced electronics and control system components.
VT RNS in-line inspection system can be easily configured to perform three different types of printed circuit board inspections, making the VT RNS a very flexible machine that can be used to inspect PCBs at post paste, post placement or post solder stages. |
ACE is the major supplier of selective soldering equipment in the USA. The products range from introductory level through high-speed inline machines and all at the most affordable prices available.
The lowest cost automated selective soldering machine available using the proven "traveling mini�solder wave" soldering process. ACE Production Technologies will be also present at the upcoming SMTAI exhibition in booth #402 |
Capital Equipment Exchange
IPC Midwest 2009 featured product:
Kyzen
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RMD Instruments
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PROMATION
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Europlacer
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Aqueous Technologies
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Essemtec
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MIRTEC
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CyberOptics
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Fuji America
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Qualitek International
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Assembléon
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DEK International
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Orbotech
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MYDATA automation 
IPC Midwest 2009 featured product:
Juki Automation Systems
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Omron Electronics
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ACE Production Technologies
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