Alpha Nickel laser-cut nickel stencils are designed to provide 0.001" and 0.0005" stencil thicknesses for aperture printing, hard nickel for wear resistance, and positional and size accuracy. Features include flatness and low internal stress; custom thicknesses; mirror smooth board side finish; high repeatability and accuracy; fine-pitch printing (for print applications down to 0.4 mm pitch).
Cookson Electronics, www.cooksonelectronics.com
Heat-Spring metallic thermal interface material is a soft metal alloy developed as a compressible metallic shim for Infineon PrimePACK IGBT mounting applications. Reportedly reduces thermal resistance below that of other TIMs. Consists of soft metal preforms that are compressible. Does not contain silicone; does not outgas, and does not exhibit pump-out. Is stable and requires no special mounting apparatus. Is conductive thermally and electrically. Made of 100% recyclable and reclaimable metal.
Indium Corp., www.indium.com
PDXpert PLM 2010 Edition product lifecycle management software offers bill of materials markup, file content indexing, and other productivity enhancements. Markup Wizard modifies multiple BoMs in one workflow; can automatically add, replace and remove components on assemblies. Creates BoM revisions as needed. Discovers and displays all component “where used” instances. Introduces file content searches. Uses Windows Search 4.0 components to index common file formats; search results include files with matching content. Plug-ins for other file formats and for more specialized engineering file formats for CAD files can be installed as needed. Search syntax includes Booleans and wildcards. Converts one document or part type into another; has user-defined rules that prevent assigning duplicate part or document numbers. System WAN performance has improved with more local caching. Other improvements include 64-bit SQL Server and Windows support. Help files, now available online, detail step-by-step procedures for operational and administrative functions.
Active Sensing Inc., www.ActiveSensing.com