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| NBS Deploys RFID Intelligent Feeders System
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| President and CEO Michael Maslana at NBS headquarters manufacturing facility in Santa Clara, CA. | Santa Clara, CA - Leading EMS provider NBS (www.nbscorp.com) announced Friday that it has installed and deployed a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) driven intelligent feeder and materials management system throughout the company’s Santa Clara, California manufacturing facility. This highly sophisticated traceability will enable NBS to electronically track, monitor, match and record components to printed circuit board assemblies while in-process, eliminating the very...
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| CompTIA Introduces eLearning Courses for Technology Skills
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| Oakbrook Terrace, IL -
CompTIA, the leading provider of vendor neutral skills certifications and certificates for the world's information technology (IT) workforce, today introduced a new series of online learning courses.
CompTIA eLearning courses, offered in conjunction with leading learning solutions provider Element K, include a variety of online training options for seasoned IT professionals, workers new to the profession or individuals interested in a career in high-tech. The courses offer self-paced learning tools to develop IT knowledge, technical skills and enhanced performance levels, both as a stand-alone program to prepare for a specific certification or as companion learning...
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| Power while you walk: Navy researchers to help refine electricity-generating backpack
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| Military & Aerospace Electronics Online
ARLINGTON, VA -
 U.S. Navy researchers are continuing work to develop a quiet, lightweight backpack that generates electricity by tapping into the up-and-down energy people generate when they walk. The Office of Naval Research (ONR) in Arlington, Va., is negotiating a phase-two Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) contract with Lightning Packs LLC in Strafford, Pa., to reduce the weight of a backpack able to generate electricity the company has developed, and reduce noise the backpack makes...
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Custom Plastic & Metal Parts Made Quickly, Inexpensively
By Robert Powell, Market Development Manager, Quickparts, Inc.
Quickparts and Contract Engineering Services have formed a partnership to design and produce products with molded plastics, sheet-metal and most materials used in electronic applications. "Quickparts is an entirely new way to obtain custom-manufactured plastic and metal parts," said Ronald L. Hollis, Ph. D., President and CEO, Quickparts. "A more traditional method of obtaining custom parts takes too much time, leaves room for error and is often a bigger hassle than anticipated."
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Creating High-Reliability Contacts
By Roger Sutcliffe, Product/Applications Engineer, QA Technology Company, Hampton, NH
Manufacturers of connectors for high reliability electronic applications are frequently confronted with the reality that their products can become the cause for the failure of a high-value piece of equipment — usually at the most inopportune time. The challenge is to design connectors ...
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ECD Intros New M.A.P. Version Milwaukie, OR — ECD has introduced a new and updated version (Version 2.16b) of its M.A.P.® software. Used with the company's family of thermal profilers, the V-M.O.L.E.®, the company's M.A.P. (Machine, Assembly, and Process) software has proven valuable both to the engineer and the production ...
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Finding the Right Contract Manufacturer By Bob Knight, President, Knight Electronics, Inc., Dallas, TX
From a global recession to new green supply chain requirements to offshore price pressures, OEM manufacturers continually face new supply chain challenges. So how does one choose the right contract manufacturer that will meet price points, streamline supply chain and logistics processes ...
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I&J Fisnar France: Making it all Work
By Walter Salm
Cergy-Pontoise, France — What? Translate the entire I&J Fisnar catalog, data sheets and engineering bulletins from English into French? Who on earth would willingly take on a task like that? The answer: Loic le Naou, the president of I&J Fisnar France S.A. Located in a northwestern suburb of Paris, the company provides complete technical and engineering support for its products. The French subsidiary started out in 1990 with just 2 employees; Loic was one of them, and he has been leading the company's French operation ever since.
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CIT Intros Ultra Slim 16 Amp Relay Minneapolis, MN — CIT Relay & Switch is introducing the J114FL Series high capacity, high circuit insulation relay. The new unit is available with SPST NO, SPDT, DPST NO and DPDT contact arrangements with contact ratings to 16A at 250VAC/30VDC and 8A at 250VAC/30VDC. This low profile relay measures ...
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Optimized Strategies to Reduce the Cost of Test and Inspection While Increasing Manufacturing Quality.
Paul Groome, Machine Vision Products
In the current economic environment optimizing manufacturing costs, and especially Test and Inspection costs are high on most companies agendas. But we still need to ensure the highest level of quality for customer shipments. Both cost and quality goals can be achieved by carefully selecting ...
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Extech Intros Compact Thermal Imaging Camera
Waltham, MA — Extech Instruments (a FLIR company) has introduced the Extech i5 compact IR camera, an easy-to-use, affordable trouble-shooting tool for high quality thermal imaging, high accuracy, focus free viewing, with a 5000 image miniSD card storage ...
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