Haverhill, MA, USA September 2018. Seica Inc., will be exhibiting at the SMTAI trade show to be held in Chicago, IL on October 16 – 17, 2018. Seica’s Pilot V8 automated flying prober will be on display in booth #424. The Pilot V8 Next> series is Seica’s latest innovative flying prober on the market today. It’s ability to test traditional loaded boards is unmatched in today’s market, but also its ability to test wafers, substrates, MLOs and assemblies is quite extraordinary.  From NPI pilot runs to full production runs, with its fast ICT test capabilities the system can also be configured to regenerate netlists and schematics for circuit assemblies that have no data whatsoever. The system can also be configured for functional testing such as; power up, boundary scan, flash programming, and LED testing or using Seica’s functional language the user can create their own test code or run  National Instruments TeststandTM Labview sequences. Seica will also discuss many other product offerings from bed of nails testers, to automation equipment, conformal coat and THT (Dragonfly) test systems, and our laser based selective solder system called the Firefly.

October 18-19

BEST announces that Phil Zarrow, electronics industry subject matter expert, will be our guest lecturer for the SMT Boot Camp to be held October 18 - 19. This course will feature the entire assembly process: board fabrication, print, place, reflow, clean, test and coating. In only the way Phil can, real world examples will be presented in the 2 day lecture.

Plymouth, WI — September 2018 — Kurtz Ersa Inc., a leading supplier of electronics production equipment, today announced that it has hired Chris Curole as its NA Printer Product Manager. Curole comes to Ersa from MYCRONIC, Inc. where he worked as an Applications Engineer for the last 7 years. Prior to that he worked for VITRONICS SOLTEC for 16 years.

Hanover, September 2018 – Viscom AG is officially involved in the Fuji Smart Factory. The Fuji Corporation initiative aims to standardize communication between machines in electronics manufacturing. For this purpose, the production lines are connected to the company's Nexim software.