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Improving Productivity with Automated Component Delivery

Automation is growing in nearly every sector. Self-driving cars, touchless soft-drink dispensing machines that deliver over 100 different drinks, and robots doing everything from food sortin .. read more

Empowering Digital Supply Chain Transformation by Utilizing Industry 4.0, Smart Factories, Standards, Smart Contracts and Blockchains

Companies that place products onto the marketplace, whether they are internally manufactured or sourced from a supply chain, are often faced with ever increasing demands for data from a dive .. read more

IPC-HERMES-9852 Lays the Foundation for Automated Flexible Production

IPC-HERMES-9852 as the smart replacement for the long-used IPC-SMEMA-9851 provides machine-to-machine (M2M) communication that ensures consistency of each PCB and its individual data while t .. read more

SMT Printer Changeover Automation

The Factory of the Future or a Lights out Factory will require significant automation, including many functions that are challenging and are still performed manually due to the complexity an .. read more

A Robot’s Place in SMT

The SMT industry’s one constant is change. Standards are continually updated and components are miniaturized for space savings. In addition to the changes that come,the industry is also faced w .. read more

Increasing Profitability through Process Optimization: Better Than Outsourcing

Research has shown that U.S. companies can realize higher profits over outsourcing by putting their houses in order and finetuning their production processes,with automation being a key contrib .. read more

Drawing Note Generator

This paper will describe the method used to automate drawing note creation at Lockheed Martin. It will discuss the reasons for the automation and some of the decisions that needed to be made be .. read more

Establishing Component Traceability as an EMS Provider: A Mission Critical Service

As an EMS provider of high complexity backpanel assemblies,traceability of components with performance issues found at system test,functional test and in the field was limited to the ability to .. read more

Using Heuristics to Identify Maverick Lots at In-Circuit Test

Yield and defect levels in the manufacturing of high-complexity and high-reliability Printed Circuit Board Assemblies (PCBAs) are extremely sensitive to variations in the process,component qual .. read more

Recent Developments in MSD Control

This paper discusses some of the new challenges associated with MSD Control in PCB assembly plants and offers a solution to reduce manufacturing costs and improve quality by automating this cri .. read more

Improving Productivity with Automated Component Delivery

Automation is growing in nearly every sector. Self-driving cars, touchless soft-drink dispensing machines that deliver over 100 different drinks, and robots doing everything from food sortin .. read more

Empowering Digital Supply Chain Transformation by Utilizing Industry 4.0, Smart Factories, Standards, Smart Contracts and Blockchains

Companies that place products onto the marketplace, whether they are internally manufactured or sourced from a supply chain, are often faced with ever increasing demands for data from a dive .. read more

IPC-HERMES-9852 Lays the Foundation for Automated Flexible Production

IPC-HERMES-9852 as the smart replacement for the long-used IPC-SMEMA-9851 provides machine-to-machine (M2M) communication that ensures consistency of each PCB and its individual data while t .. read more

SMT Printer Changeover Automation

The Factory of the Future or a Lights out Factory will require significant automation, including many functions that are challenging and are still performed manually due to the complexity an .. read more

A Robot’s Place in SMT

The SMT industry’s one constant is change. Standards are continually updated and components are miniaturized for space savings. In addition to the changes that come,the industry is also faced w .. read more

Increasing Profitability through Process Optimization: Better Than Outsourcing

Research has shown that U.S. companies can realize higher profits over outsourcing by putting their houses in order and finetuning their production processes,with automation being a key contrib .. read more

Drawing Note Generator

This paper will describe the method used to automate drawing note creation at Lockheed Martin. It will discuss the reasons for the automation and some of the decisions that needed to be made be .. read more

Establishing Component Traceability as an EMS Provider: A Mission Critical Service

As an EMS provider of high complexity backpanel assemblies,traceability of components with performance issues found at system test,functional test and in the field was limited to the ability to .. read more

Using Heuristics to Identify Maverick Lots at In-Circuit Test

Yield and defect levels in the manufacturing of high-complexity and high-reliability Printed Circuit Board Assemblies (PCBAs) are extremely sensitive to variations in the process,component qual .. read more

Recent Developments in MSD Control

This paper discusses some of the new challenges associated with MSD Control in PCB assembly plants and offers a solution to reduce manufacturing costs and improve quality by automating this cri .. read more