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Integrated Ideas & Technologies Inc. (IIT, Coeur d'Alene, ID) has developed an in-house laser cutting system that requires minimal training. The system offers manufacturers the ability to duplicate exact performance between facilities, regardless of location, and provides complete in-house control. An automated download program also allows the staff at IIT to help companies eliminate rework issues.
Assembly defects are expensive and avoidable, although many manufacturers accept rework as an unavoidable upshot of doing business. Customizing or improving surface-mount lines can now be done site, precluding the delay time associated with the remanufacturing of corrected or re-designed stencils by off-site suppliers.
IIT can now provide a user-friendly laser cutting system, without requiring a trained laser technician, stencil manufacturing staff or manufacturing support equipment.
IIT manufactures stencils required for circuit board manufacturing and serves contract manufacturers and original equipment manufacturerss in virtually every high-tech industry.
For more information, call (208) 665-2166.
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Electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider Flextronics (Singapore) has signed an agreement with Nortel Networks (Brampton, Ontario, Canada) whereby Nortel will divest certain optical, wireless and enterprise manufacturing operations and optical design operations to Flextronics.
Subject to closing the four-year manufacturing agreement, Flextronics will assume most of Nortel Networks' systems integration activities, final assembly, testing and repair operations, along with the management of the related supply chain and suppliers. Over time, Flextronics expects to consolidate and internally source its vertically integrated supply chain solutions, which include the fabrication and assembly of printed circuit boards and enclosures, as well as logistics and repair services.
Through an optical design services agreement, Flextronics will acquire a group of engineers with expertise in end-to-end, carrier grade optical network products. The design and engineering skills to be transferred to Flextronics include hardware development, software development and project management.
"Flextronics will be acquiring a design group with broad experience in telecommunications and optical networks, with extensive knowledge of optical products and processes," said Michael Marks, chief executive officer of Flextronics. "There are no independent design companies in the world that have this degree of design expertise, so we are thrilled to have expanded the scope of our engagement with Nortel Networks to include these services...We believe hardware design, software design and manufacturing are converging, which makes the addition of the Nortel Networks design group an excellent fit with our long-term strategy."
Mike McNamara, chief operating officer of Flextronics, said, "The significant increase in complex, multi-technology telecom and network solutions, including carrier grade products, further diversifies our product mix and reduces seasonality. The expertise acquired from the Nortel Networks' operations will enhance the capabilities in our Industrial Parks in China, Poland, Mexico and Brazil."
As part of the transaction, approximately 2,500 employees would transfer to Flextronics. The business transfer to Flextronics is expected to begin in November 2004 and will take approximately six months to complete. During this time, Flextronics' revenues from Nortel will increase each quarter and should reach an annual revenue rate of approximately $2.5 billion.
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Sanmina-SCI Corp. (San Jose, CA), an electronics manufacturing services (EMS) company, and Teradiant Networks (San Jose, CA), a developer of networking semiconductors, have announced an alliance to accelerate the development of a family of application platforms based on the Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture (ATCA) standard.
The platforms' architecture makes it possible for network equipment companies to build systems that scale easily from 20 to 120 Gbps. The platforms are architected around the first ATCA-based traffic management and switching (TMS) card, providing functional integration while reducing power. With industry-standard hardware and a suite of pre-integrated, pre-validate application programming interfaces (APIs), original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) can minimize development time and cost. The API suite also enables OEMs to build proprietary applications that ensure differentiation in their product offerings.
With the rollout of scalable platforms in late 2004, Sanmina-SCI and Teradiant will catch the growing wave of interest in ATCA. According to Crystal Cube Consulting, demand for ATCA is expected to produce up to $20 billion per year in networking system sales by the year 2007. ATCA provides a common set of physical and electrical interfaces for telecom and networking equipment, and ATCA-based systems are designed for ease of component reuse and ease of product differentiation.
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