February, 2020 Business Briefs Digi-Key Expands Partnership
with Precogs Thief River Falls, MN — Digi-Key has renewed its partnership agreement with Paris-based startup Precogs. Precogs pairs market data on individual component parts with customer needs, based on their predetermined strate- gies for price, quality and availability. Precogs’ solution is directly integrat- ed with the customer ERP. This integration provides seamless movement of data, eliminating needless manual intervention to provide a fast, results- driven product. In an industry worth $1.3 trillion a year, this immediately improves profitability through pricing negotiation, purchasing efficiency and inventory management. Web:
www.digikey.com
ITW EAE Receives Patent for
Dispensing Technology Minneapolis, MN — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued Patent No. 10,434,537 protecting Dynamic Dual Head™ (DDH) dispensing technology for the Camalot® Prodigy™ dispenser. The Prodigy dispenser employs break- through technology to deliver high-speed and extremely accurate materials dispensing for electronics assembly and packaging with tighter tolerances and higher yields. DDH uses a unique method of identifying and correcting for part-to-part rotation of electronic substrates in real time, allowing synchro- nous dispensing of two pumps. DDH can double production capacity, while maintaining the highest level of accuracy for both dispense pumps with no compromise in yield. Web:
www.itweae.com
HEIDENHAIN Partners with IMT for
Lab Automation Schaumburg, IL — A new HEIDENHAIN life sciences brand partnership is now in place, offering technology that enables lab automation for the advance- ment of medical technology. This development consists of the business partner- ships from the HEIDENHAIN Group that include HEIDENHAIN, IMT and ETEL. The component product lines for lab automation within this new part- nership include linear scales from HEIDENHAIN, linear motors and controls from ETEL, as well as detection systems that enable exceptional positioning and read-out accuracy while maintaining high throughput in sample analysis. IMT AG Microfluidics offers customized micro- and nano-pattern structures in glass, integration of electrodes, waveguides and structured functionalization for life science applications. Web:
www.heidenhain.us
Gowanda Acquires RCD Components
Gowanda, NY — Gowanda Components Group has acquired RCD Components, headquartered in Manchester, New Hampshire. RCD is a manufacturer of pas- sive components, including resistors, capacitors, coils, and delay lines, for the commercial, military and aerospace industries. This is the ninth acquisition for GCG within the last seven years. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but GCG has stated that RCD will maintain its operations in Manchester, as well as its support facilities in the Caribbean and Asia. In addition to RCD’s facili- ties, GCG has seven other manufacturing and design locations in the U.S. Web:
www.gowandacomponentsgroup.com
Technic Purchases Chemical Produc-
tion Facility in France Amiens, France — Technic has purchased a new chemical production facility located in Amiens, France. The acquisition will enable the company to expand manufacturing of semiconductor products and better serve the growing cus- tomer base in Europe and around the world. Technic cited several essential reasons for choosing the facility. It was formerly owned by a chemicals manu- facturer and is one of six high-threshold SEVESO sites in Amiens, meeting one of Technic’s primary classification requirements. The facility’s large size offers the opportunity to expand capacity in both low- and high-volume production. Also, the facility is near Saint-Denis, where Technic’s primary production fa- cility, administrative offices and R&D laboratories are located. Web:
www.technic.com
Blackline Safety Installs ASM Printer
and Placement Systems Munich, Germany — Blackline Safety Corp., a developer and producer of per- sonal and area safety monitoring devices for the gas industry, has selected ASM Assembly Systems as its technology partner for its electronics manufac- turing requirements. The company has installed a DEK NeoHorizon 03iX sten- cil printer, two E by SIPLACE placement systems, and is leveraging the DEK VectorGuard™ single-frame to facilitate fast changeover and to reduce stencil storage space. The powerful ASM software suite in use includes the SIPLACE Pro programming environment, feeder and component verification through Setup Center and job scheduling optimization with SiCluster. Web:
www.asm-smt.com
www.us-
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