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Lacroix Group Acquires eSoftThings

SAINT-HERBLAIN, FRANCE – Lacroix Group has acquired eSoftThings, consolidating its R D center and strengthening its positioning around indus... Read More...

Kitron Reports Q2 Revenue Up 21%

BILLINGSTAD, NORWAY – Kitron reported second quarter revenue of NOK 1.04 billion (US$110.6 million), an increase of 21% year-over-year. Grow... Read More...

Indium’s Lee and Unimicron’s Lau Publish Pb-Free Solder Joint Book

CLINTON, NY – Indium’s Ning-Cheng Lee, Ph.D., VP of Technology, and John H. Lau, Ph.D., CTO, Unimicron, coauthored Assembly and Reliability ... Read More...

Foxconn Reports June Revenues Down 9%

TAIPEI – Foxconn Electronics reported consolidated revenues of NT$360.5 billion (US$12.3 billion) for June, down 9% year-over-year and 6.8% ... Read More...

Yole: Despite Covid-19, 2020 is a Memory Recovery Year

LYON, FRANCE – “Despite the Covid-19 outbreak, which negatively impacted the smartphone and automotive industries but spurred demand for ser... Read More...

TT Electronics to Open Manufacturing Plant in Malaysia

KUANTAN, MALAYSIA – TT Electronics’ Global Manufacturing Solutions division is opening operations in Kuantan, Malaysia, in response to custo... Read More...

SMTA Elects Anselm Board Pres., Adds Konrad

MINNEAPOLIS, MN – The SMTA elected its global board of directors for the term beginning Sept. 22. Read More...

Intel’s Aghazadeh Elected Chairman of iNEMI Board

MORRISVILLE, NC – Mostafa Aghazadeh of Intel has been elected chairman of the iNEMI board of directors. Read More...

AIM Opens Brazil Stocking Facility

MANAUS, BRAZIL – AIM Solder opened a new stocking facility here. Read More...

FEATURES

MES-Based Process Control of Test Machines Using IPC-CFX

Lights-out manufacturing mandates a standard communication protocol. Electronics assemblers often assume an MES solution is all they need to gain complete cont... Read More...

Production Area Reorganization Pays Many Dividends

A new layout marries staff resources to immediate demand. In the fourth quarter 2019, the team at Milwaukee Electronics’ headquarters began looking at ways to ... Read More...

IoT Suffers from a Lack of Standards

What the electronics industry must do to change that. Ed.: This is the seventh of an occasional series by the authors of the 2019 iNEMI Roadmap. This informati... Read More...