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Product Preview VOLUME 30 - NUMBER 7
SEMICON WEST
Product Preview THE GLOBAL HI-TECH ELECTRONICS PUBLICATION July, 2015
Personalized Service Reigns Supreme at BGS
By Jacob Fattal
Wafer level tester from Nord- son DAGE is just one of the many neat products at this year's SEMICON WEST starting on. . .
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Up-to-Date at Colonial
At Nashua, NH-based Colo- nial Electronic Manufactur- ers, the main focus is cus- tomer satisfaction. CEM has invested heavily in people and equipment, updating and upgrading with new pick- and-place systems from Euro- placer.
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This Month's Focus: Test and
Assembly
Using aluminum as a conduc- tor, using Litz wire, harvest- ing energy with new wireless and battery-less switches, vi- bration testing, and space- saving tech niques with SMT components detailed here...
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Janak Bhakta, President of BGS, is shown standing next to one of the automated pick-and-place machines from SAMSUNG.
ness operates a 20,000-square-ft. fa- cility in the heart of central Florida and provides quick-turnaround serv- ice with personal attention to detail for its customers. The company pro-
art, innovative, reliable, and high- quality manufacturing equipment. One such partner is SAMSUNG C&T Automation, Inc. (
www.samsung -
smt.com). BGS has worked closely
Sandia Making Life Extension Program (LEP) Base Wafers
Albuquerque, NM — Sandia National Laboratories has begun making sili- con wafers for three nuclear weapon modernization programs, the largest production series in the history of its Microsystems and Engineering Sci- ences Applications (MESA) complex. The MESA silicon fab began
producing base wafers in October for Application-Specific Integrated Cir- cuits for the B61-12 Life Extension Program, W88 Alteration 370 and
W87 Mk21 Fuze Replacement nu- clear weapons. Planning and prepa- ration took years and involved more than 100 people. “We left no one untouched. If
you were standing still, you got something to do,” said Jayne Ben- dure, who was in charge of organiz- ing 1,000 line items to be checked off before wafer production began. Dave Sandison, a senior man-
ager at MESA’s Silicon Fab when the manufacturing readiness process be- gan in July 2011, said detailed re- quirements for making war reserve- quality Application-Specific Inte- grated Circuits (ASICs) produced a gigantic list “in regular 12-point font about 4 feet long that went down the wall in my office.” “It was a multiyear program ex- ecuted with precision and dedication.
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Apopka, FL — Located only a few miles north of Orlando, Best Global Source (BGS) is a full-service elec- tronic contract manufacturer (ECM) that specializes in printed-circuit- board (PCB) assembly and electro- mechanical box builds. Founded in 2000, the minority-owned small busi-
vides cost-effective electronic manu- facturing services that conform to IPC requirements, offering complete turnkey solutions, from prototyping to volume production. Achieving such electronic man-
ufacturing capabilities has required solid partnerships with key manufac- turers that can provide state-of-the-
with SAMSUNG since 2005 and has acquired a total of three of the com- pany’s high-performance manufac- turing machines. The SAMSUNG model CP40-CV high-speed pick-and- place machine and the model CP40- LV pick-and-place machine for SMT components were both acquired in 2005. BGS recently added a model SM482 flexible pick-and-place mounter for use with SMT compo- nents and for printed-circuit-board assembly. This latest system addi- tion is excellent for use with odd- shaped parts and can handle 28,000 components per hour under optimum
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FabEquipment Forecasted to Grow Through 2015 into 2016
San Jose, CA — SEMI has updated its World Fab Forecast report for 2015 and 2016. The report projects that semiconductor fab equipment spending (new, used, for Front End facilities) is expected to increase 11 percent (US$38.7 billion) in 2015 and another 5 percent ($40.7 billion) in 2016. Since February 2015, SEMI has made 282 updates to its detailed World Fab Forecast report, which tracks fab spending for construction and equipment, as well as capacity changes, and technology nodes tran- sitions and product type changes by fab.
Capital expenditure (capex
without fabless and backend) by de- vice manufacturers is forecast to in- crease almost 6 percent in 2015 and over 2 percent in 2016. Fab equip- ment spending is forecast to depart from the typical historic trend over the past 15 years of two years of spending growth followed by one of decline. For the first time, equip- ment spending could grow every year for three years in a row: 2014, 2015, and 2016. The SEMI World Fab Forecast
Report, a “bottoms up” company-by- company and fab-by-fab approach, lists over 48 facilities making DRAM products and 32 facilities making NAND products. The report also
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