MINNEAPLOIS – SMTA today announced Waad Tarman of Auburn University as recipient of the 2024 JoAnn Stromberg Student Leader Scholarship.

SAN JOSE -- Industry veteran Vern Solberg has released a new book on designing for SMT and UHDI boards.

Dumb data won’t die. And the blame rests squarely on users who resist upgrading to formats that are designed with today’s boards and manufacturing methods in mind.

That’s the message from the PCEA Portland (OR) Chapter at its meeting in late October. The sentiment was shared across a spectrum of users, from designers to fabricators to assemblers, including the host, Axiom Electronics.

We know the issues: Too often, fabricators and assemblers receive conflicting duplicate and erroneous design data files. More often than not the culprit is Gerber-based data packages, which almost always require modification prior to fabrication or assembly.

So while persistent errors from design to manufacturing are often due to manual entry miscues or otherwise obvious omissions such as a missing solder mask layer or discrepancies within the netlist, the industry by and large continues to put up with the pain instead of migrating to a new format.

SAINT-CLOUD, FRANCE – Asteelflash opened a $19 million production facility near Wrocław, Poland, enhancing its box-build and high-level assembly capabilities in the automotive and industrial sectors.

TEMPE, AZ – Benchmark Electronic's third quarter revenue of $658 million represented a decline of 8.6% from the same quarter in 2023.

CHENNAI, INDIA – Syrma SGS Technology is targeting $1 billion in revenue by 2027 and is evaluating manufacturing opportunities for semiconductors and PCBs, according to a company official.

GLENVIEW, IL – ITW's Test & Measurement and Electronics segment saw revenue of $697 million for the third quarter, down 0.2% from 2023's third quarter.

AUSTIN, TX – Flex reported sales of $6.5 billion for the second quarter of its fiscal year, down 5.6% from the same quarter of 2023.

BANNOCKBURN, IL – Industry sentiment in the electronics sector improved marginally in October after a sharp decline in September, according to IPC’s October Sentiment of the Global Electronics Manufacturing Supply Chain Report.

BANNOCKBURN, IL – North American PCB shipments in September were down 24.1% year-over-year, according to IPC's North American PCB Statistical Program. The book-to-bill ratio stands at 1.08.

BANNOCKBURN, IL – Total North American EMS shipments in September were up 10.3% compared to the same month last year, IPC announced in findings from its North American EMS Statistical Program. The book-to-bill ratio stands at 1.26.

NORTH YORK, ON – ZTest Electronics announced revenue of $9.8 million for its full fiscal year, a company record and an increase of 71% over fiscal year 2023.