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Series 1414 Wet Process Station satisfies the stringent cleanliness requirements of semiconductor process facilities. Achieves flexibility by mounting components on support rails. This facilitates the use of proven, highly reliable components positioned for easy replacement or repositioning for optimal product flow through the station.
Includes modular electrical devices and plumbing systems that provide an orderly maintenance program with minimal service inventory. Available in white stress-relieved polypropylene, natural polypropylene, fire retardant polypropylene, stainless and PVC. Designed for in-wall placement, allowing total laminar clean air flow to the work deck. Maintenance may be performed from the front, rear or both.
Has touch-tone microprocessors. A flexible membrane that is resistant to acids and solvents protects the face of the controller. Heated tanks come with liquid level sensors, high-limit overrides, ground fault interrupters and other safety overrides. DI water flow bypass diaphragm valves inhibit bacterial growth.
Includes modular electrical devices and plumbing systems that provide an orderly maintenance program with minimal service inventory. Available in white stress-relieved polypropylene, natural polypropylene, fire retardant polypropylene, stainless and PVC. Designed for in-wall placement, allowing total laminar clean air flow to the work deck. Maintenance may be performed from the front, rear or both.
Has touch-tone microprocessors. A flexible membrane that is resistant to acids and solvents protects the face of the controller. Heated tanks come with liquid level sensors, high-limit overrides, ground fault interrupters and other safety overrides. DI water flow bypass diaphragm valves inhibit bacterial growth.
Clean Air Products, cleanairproducts.com
Newark InOne announces the availability of RoHS Certificates of Compliance (C of C) via its Website. Online customers can download a C of C for each of 250,000+ parts that the distributor has identified as RoHS compliant.
The C of C links are located in the Technical Information column on its search results pages, as well as on product detail pages. As is personalized, a simple online registration process is required before the document can be downloaded. Customer-specific information is included along with the description of the part, manufacturer brand name and part number. Customers who order by phone can request that a C of C to be sent with their order.
Each is backed by a 10-step quality process, which assures that the manufacturer has accurately represented the part's RoHS compliant status. These steps include: conducting a risk assessment process that evaluates the quality of the compliance information it receives from the supplier, asking for additional conformance and testing information when risks are identified, inspecting parts during the receiving process, resolving discrepancies with suppliers, notifying customers when they've purchased a misidentified part and keeping careful audit trails.
The C of C links are located in the Technical Information column on its search results pages, as well as on product detail pages. As is personalized, a simple online registration process is required before the document can be downloaded. Customer-specific information is included along with the description of the part, manufacturer brand name and part number. Customers who order by phone can request that a C of C to be sent with their order.
Each is backed by a 10-step quality process, which assures that the manufacturer has accurately represented the part's RoHS compliant status. These steps include: conducting a risk assessment process that evaluates the quality of the compliance information it receives from the supplier, asking for additional conformance and testing information when risks are identified, inspecting parts during the receiving process, resolving discrepancies with suppliers, notifying customers when they've purchased a misidentified part and keeping careful audit trails.
Newark InOne, www.newarkinone.com
QualMark's patented OVS (OmniAxial Vibration System) tables used in their HALT and HASS chambers excite every part of a product, down to the component level, at its resonant frequency. This requires vibration in all three axes as well as the rotation around those axes, simultaneously, across a wide frequency range. At the same time, and within the same chamber, thermal tests are undertaken. The chamber's patented Typhoon air-handling technology drives products from ambient to the appropriate stress temperature quickly using less electricity and liquid nitrogen.
"If you looked at a pie-chart and it showed all possible defects, you'd have a certain percentage showing up at extreme high and low temperatures, during thermal cycling, under vibration in all axes, and during combined vibration and thermal cycling," said Charlie Bates, VP of program development. "To cover all the bases you have to test both vibe' and temp simultaneously, because studies have shown that you can otherwise miss 25-30% of the defects."
In addition, thorough HALT and HASS testing requires broad frequency excitation, far beyond what a product might see in the end use environment, to ensure that weak links are quickly exposed.
"Our new xLF vibration system is unique in shifting the energy in the frequency domain down to the zero to 5,000 Hz range. With 50% of the energy below 2,000 Hz and 50% above, we simulate the resident frequencies in various types of electronic hardware, including PCBs," continued Bates. "This quickly brings out potential real-world problems such as weak solder joints and incomplete surface-mount connections."
QualMark authorized test centers have conducted over 4,000 HALT and HASS tests since
1991, employing services such as customer directed testing, production screening, production HASA (Highly Accelerated Stress Audits) and on-site testing.
QualMark, qualmark.com
"If you looked at a pie-chart and it showed all possible defects, you'd have a certain percentage showing up at extreme high and low temperatures, during thermal cycling, under vibration in all axes, and during combined vibration and thermal cycling," said Charlie Bates, VP of program development. "To cover all the bases you have to test both vibe' and temp simultaneously, because studies have shown that you can otherwise miss 25-30% of the defects."
In addition, thorough HALT and HASS testing requires broad frequency excitation, far beyond what a product might see in the end use environment, to ensure that weak links are quickly exposed.
"Our new xLF vibration system is unique in shifting the energy in the frequency domain down to the zero to 5,000 Hz range. With 50% of the energy below 2,000 Hz and 50% above, we simulate the resident frequencies in various types of electronic hardware, including PCBs," continued Bates. "This quickly brings out potential real-world problems such as weak solder joints and incomplete surface-mount connections."
QualMark authorized test centers have conducted over 4,000 HALT and HASS tests since
1991, employing services such as customer directed testing, production screening, production HASA (Highly Accelerated Stress Audits) and on-site testing.
QualMark, qualmark.com
MIDLAND, MI — The Dow Chemical Co. is raising prices in North America for a wide selection of its epoxy resin products. Expoy resins are a basic component of laminates used in printed wiring boards.
Effective July 1, 2006, or as contract terms allow, Dow will increase off-list prices for liquid, solid, solid solution and brominated epoxy resins by six to eight cents per pound.
Effective July 1, 2006, or as contract terms allow, Dow will increase off-list prices for liquid, solid, solid solution and brominated epoxy resins by six to eight cents per pound.
Valor Computerized Systems has announced a full Pb-free environment control solution covering market-leading machine vendors, regardless of brand and model generation. The TraceXpert operations monitoring and control solution for EMS companies delivers machine vendor neutrality for line-monitoring, real-time materials management, optimized assembly line performance and component traceability.
With the July deadline for the RoHS Directive almost here, electronics manufacturers are focused on sourcing Pb-free components through improved and revised production and inspection processes for compliance. TraceXpert assists that process by blocking uncertified AVL components from entering the assembly cycle, by preventing unauthorized operators from running the Pb-free process, by ensuring proper control of moisture-sensitive devices and preventing inadvertent tampering with process parameters. In addition, exact traceability capabilities allow manufacturers to produce device compliance history records, and provide customers and authorities with evidence to support their Pb-free process certification.
With the July deadline for the RoHS Directive almost here, electronics manufacturers are focused on sourcing Pb-free components through improved and revised production and inspection processes for compliance. TraceXpert assists that process by blocking uncertified AVL components from entering the assembly cycle, by preventing unauthorized operators from running the Pb-free process, by ensuring proper control of moisture-sensitive devices and preventing inadvertent tampering with process parameters. In addition, exact traceability capabilities allow manufacturers to produce device compliance history records, and provide customers and authorities with evidence to support their Pb-free process certification.
Valor Computerized Systems, www.valor.com
LPKF ProLegend is a fast, easy-to-use system that creates professional legend print on PCB prototypes.
Environmentally friendly, does not require screen printing and comes with all the necessary tools and consumables included. Requires very little training.
Allows legend printing to be an easy in-house process, increasing security and eliminating production delays. Legend print can be added to a circuit board instantly through a simple process. Before applying the legend print a solder mask can be applied with the LPKF ProMask system, allowing instant turnaround.
LPKF, lpkfusa.com
Environmentally friendly, does not require screen printing and comes with all the necessary tools and consumables included. Requires very little training.
Allows legend printing to be an easy in-house process, increasing security and eliminating production delays. Legend print can be added to a circuit board instantly through a simple process. Before applying the legend print a solder mask can be applied with the LPKF ProMask system, allowing instant turnaround.
LPKF, lpkfusa.com
