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FCI (Etters, PA), a manufacturer of connectors and interconnect systems, has won a substantial victory in its patent infringement suit involving FCI's ball grid array (BGA) connector technology brought in the U.S. against Hon Hai Precision Industries (Foxconn, Tucheng, Taiwain).
On Feb. 13, after a two-week trial in San Francisco, CA, a jury returned a verdict finding Hon Hai liable for infringement of two FCI patents relating to its BGA connector technology.
The jury also found the infringement to be willful and that Hon Hai is liable for multi-million dollar damages as a result of its infringement of FCI's patents.
The infringing sockets are used in computer notebooks, desktops and servers that use BGA socket technology.
Jean Lucien Lamy, FCI chairman and chief executive officer, said, "We will continue, in this instance and in any other cases that should arise, to pursue all legal means to protect our intellectual property."
BGA patented technology from FCI is currently licensed worldwide to Tyco and Molex for socket applications.
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Valor Computerized Systems (Yvane, Israel), a provider of productivity increasing engineering software solutions to the electronics design and manufacturing industry, has reached an agreement with Jabil Circuit Inc. (St. Petersburg, FL), a top-tier electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider. Trilogy 5000 will be implemented at a majority of Jabil's manufacturing and service facilities located in Asia, Europe and the Americas to increase efficiencies in new product introduction (NPI), design for manufacturability (DFM) and assembly process optimization. The deal marks the largest software deployment in Valor's corporate history.
The engineering system selected by Jabil covers the full scope of the assembly engineering solution for an integrated, efficient and productive CAD to DFM to assembly process.
Chris Singleton, global director for manufacturing engineering at Jabil said, "We will be able to accommodate customer ECN's easier and faster as well as provide a higher level of DFM service for customers. Jabil expects Trilogy tools to reduce the engineering process time for new jobs. This is particularly important to our growing high-mix business and will enable us to accelerate new product introductions."
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Assembleon (Eindhoven, The Netherlands, a designer and manufacturer of surface-mount pick-and-place equipment for the global electronics industry, and Tecnomatix Technologies Ltd. (Herzlia, Israel), a provider of manufacturing process management (MPM), have announced an agreement to offer a replacement to the CIMbridge software tool with eM-Assembly Expert, from Tecnomatix Unicam, for all Assembleon customers.
Under the terms of the agreement, the software tool—a key component of the printed circuit board (PCB) assembly and test solution suite from Tecnomatix Unicam—will replace the platform currently being used by Assembleon customers. Since acquiring the CIMbridge business unit from Genrad in October 2002, Tecnomatix has been committed to a transition plan to upgrade CIMbridge users to a more advanced, integrated programming platform.
Assembleon customers will also benefit from eM-Document Expert, a subset of the software that automates the creation of method sheets and other documentation for electronic assembly operations.
The programming front-end will interface with Assembleon optimizers and line balancers for all Assembleon machines. Expansion of the platform to other MPM solutions is available directly from Tecnomatix.
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