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RENTON, WA – Microscan is offering a free downloadable series of educational tutorials on Data Matrix symbol verification. Designed for any manufacturer who marks parts with Data Matrix, the series covers the major industry verification standards involved in determining symbol quality. They also provide information on quality parameters and how they affect the symbol grading process.
“Open source manufacturers are increasingly required to supply traceable parts and components using Data Matrix symbols,” said Matt Allen, product manager. “In any bar code application, reliable traceability begins with marking the highest quality symbol possible for that application. General education on the parameters that define a high quality symbol will solve most application challenges before they occur. The verification educational series will provide manufacturers with the knowledge and the tools they need to be successful from the start.”
Located at microscan.com/elearning, the tutorials are available in a series of downloadable multi-media presentations, or on CD-ROM by request.
ST. LOUIS -- LaBarge Inc. has been awarded a $10.7 million contract to continue to provide Northrop Grumman with electromechanical subsystems and modules for a state-of-the-art automated mail sorting system. The award continues LaBarge's production of the assemblies through May 2007.
LaBarge-built equipment is part of the Automated Flats Sorting Machine-Automated Induction (AFSM-ai) system, a fleet of machines that together can sort 26 billion pieces of flat mail per year. LaBarge began manufacturing the subsystems and modules in July 2005, under a previous contract. The equipment enhances the system's in-feed units, which the company manufactured between 1999 and 2002.
LaBarge-built equipment is part of the Automated Flats Sorting Machine-Automated Induction (AFSM-ai) system, a fleet of machines that together can sort 26 billion pieces of flat mail per year. LaBarge began manufacturing the subsystems and modules in July 2005, under a previous contract. The equipment enhances the system's in-feed units, which the company manufactured between 1999 and 2002.
LaBarge will perform the work at its Huntsville, AK, facility.
BUENOS AIRES -- Foxconn Electronics may site a manufacturing plant in Argentina in order to work more closely with its customers in Central and Lain America, according to a China language publication.
The Apple Daily further reported that Foxconn's wholly-owned handset subsidiary Foxconn International Holdings is considering a R&D center in Japan.
