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THE GLOBAL HI-TECH ELECTRONICS PUBLICATION December, 2016
ASM Munich Named “Factory of the Year”
Munich, Germany — ASM Assembly Systems has been named the overall winner in Produktion magazine’s an-
Yamaha’s SMT placement sys- tems get a major software up- grade, enabling maintenance self-diagnostics and perform- ance optimization. Section be- gins on…
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TePla Coats Next-Gen
Medical Devices
nual “Factory of the Year/Global Ex- cellence in Operations” contest. Spon- sored by Produktion and by consultan-
cy A.T. Kearney, the respected award recognizes the exceptional flexibility of ASM’s placement machine production. By consistently focusing on the value chain with concepts like lean manu- facturing, lot size 1 and by developing an innovative factory floor layout, the company can accommodate order fluc- tuations of up to 60 percent — an im- portant competitive factor for the sup- plier of production equipment to the electronics industry. The company has implemented
many successful digital initiatives to make it more productive, including monitors that display order-specific
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Plasma system manufacturer PVA TePla enables the deposi- tion of organic silicone coatings on next-generation medical de- vices, allowing for antimicro- bial, anticorrosive, hydrophilic, and other surfaces.
Page 20 This Month's Focus: Test and Measurement
Test strategies from JTAG to reduce PCB failure; protect- ing sensitive electronics with conformal coating (Rehm); testing with ultrasound to de- tect defects in components post-reflow(Sonoscan); self- configuring sensors for ma- chine monitoring (Kaman). Beginning on…
SIPLACE placement machines, such as the SIPLACE TX, are produced at ASM’s facility in Munich, Germany.
Handling Heat with Shrinking Metamaterials
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Cambridge, MA — Almost all solid materials, from rubber and glass to granite and steel, inevitably expand when heated. Only in very rare in- stances do certain materials buck this thermodynamic trend and shrink with heat. For instance, cold water will contract at temperatures between 0 and 4°C (32 and 39.2°F), before expanding. Engineers from MIT and elsewhere are now adding to this curious class of heat-shrink- ing materials. The team, led by Nicholas X. Fang, associate professor of engineering at MIT, has manufac- tured tiny, star-shaped structures out of interconnected beams, or trusses. The structures, each about
the size of a sugar cube, quickly shrink when heated to about 282°C (540°F). Each structure’s trusses are
made from typical materials that ex- pand with heat. Fang and his col- leagues realized that these trusses, when arranged in certain architec- tures, can pull the structure inward, causing it to shrink like a Hoberman sphere — a collapsible toy ball made from interconnecting lattices and joints. The researchers consider the
structures to be “metamaterials” — composite materials whose configu- rations exhibit strange, often coun- terintuitive properties that are not normally found in nature. In some cases, these structures’ resistance to expanding when heated — rather than their shrinking response per se —may be especially useful. Such ma- terials could find applications in computer chips, for example, which can warp and deform when heated for long periods of time. “Printed circuit boards can heat up when there’s a CPU running, and
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MWA’s Megan Wendling Receives SMTA Awards
Naples, FL —Megan Wendling, pres- ident of global electronics marketing and assembly consultancy firm MW Associates, has been honored with two awards by SMTA China. She has received the organization’s Councilor
Megan Wendling (left) receives SMTA awards from Abby Tsoi (right).
of the Year award, for the eighth con- secutive year, along with the Long Service award. The awards were presented by
Abby Tsoi of SMTA China. Wendling continuously supports SMTA China’s events while actively promoting SM- TA China conferences, events and technical seminars globally, and has done so for many years. Wendling’s role as advisory council member of SMTA China is to
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