-
- News
- Books
Featured Books
- smt007 Magazine
Latest Issues
Current IssueIPC APEX EXPO 2024 Pre-show
This month’s issue devotes its pages to a comprehensive preview of the IPC APEX EXPO 2024 event. Whether your role is technical or business, if you're new-to-the-industry or seasoned veteran, you'll find value throughout this program.
Boost Your Sales
Every part of your business can be evaluated as a process, including your sales funnel. Optimizing your selling process requires a coordinated effort between marketing and sales. In this issue, industry experts in marketing and sales offer their best advice on how to boost your sales efforts.
The Cost of Rework
In this issue, we investigate rework's current state of the art. What are the root causes and how are they resolved? What is the financial impact of rework, and is it possible to eliminate it entirely without sacrificing your yields?
- Articles
- Columns
Search Console
- Links
- Events
||| MENU - smt007 Magazine
IPC Conferences Set the Tone for Innovation During IPC APEX EXPO 2019
January 29, 2019 | Nolan Johnson, I-Connect007Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
The show is open and the excitement builds on Monday's docket of sessions at IPC APEX EXPO 2019 as it presented a wide-ranging array of discussions on some of the latest topics facing our industry today. Highlights at the San Diego conference included the Automotive Executive Forum, which brought together electronics manufacturers and key representatives for the automotive industry. Technical editor Pete Starkey will cover this event in more detail in an upcoming article. Simultaneously, the Connected Factory Initiative Workgroup spent Monday morning mapping out the future of CFX. Now that the protocol has been adopted as a standard, the committee moves into a new role as maintainer and promoter of the CFX standard.
Elsewhere, the DFX committee, celebrated the release of the IPC 2231 Guidelines document. The general consensus at the meeting was that the standards work is just beginning, that there's more to do, but that the release was nevertheless a huge accomplishment and worthy of implementation by participants. Much of the remaining meeting agenda was used to identify the gaps in the document and assign authors to write the guidelines that would fill in the gaps.
Simultaneously, the Critical Components Traceability Workgroup addressed the creation of a secure supply chain. While traceability can help stymie counterfeiters, traceability can also be useful for much more mundane administration, like lot code and date code tracking, or a cradle-to-grave product support history. Interestingly, this group’s work could also help implement traceability that could–at least in concept–help identify variations at the machine- or line-level within a manufacturer. Imagine being able to identify that most of the yield issues coming from a fab occurs in product that all were processed on the same key piece of equipment.
Supply chain roles who could find critical components traceability to be valuable include:
- materials manufacturing
- material distributors
- assembly manufacturers
- blockchain infrastructure suppliers
- tamper-resistant packaging
- tamper-resistant identification specialists
- Implementation of IPC-1782
Of course, the exposition hall saw another day of setup activity. I-Connect007 captured one of our signature time lapse videos of setup day, check it out below.
Tuesday will see a keynote from Jeffrey Brian (J.B.) Straubel, CTO of Tesla, and the ribbon cutting ceremony opening the show floor. We will continue to keep you updated from the show as the week progresses. Don’t forget to check in with Real Time With…IPC APEX EXPO 2019 to see the interviews and updates from the show floor.
Suggested Items
KIC’s Miles Moreau to Present Profiling Basics and Best Practices at SMTA Wisconsin Chapter PCBA Profile Workshop
01/25/2024 | KICKIC, a renowned pioneer in thermal process and temperature measurement solutions for electronics manufacturing, announces that Miles Moreau, General Manager, will be a featured speaker at the SMTA Wisconsin Chapter In-Person PCBA Profile Workshop.
The Drive Toward UHDI and Substrates
09/20/2023 | I-Connect007 Editorial TeamPanasonic’s Darren Hitchcock spoke with the I-Connect007 Editorial Team on the complexities of moving toward ultra HDI manufacturing. As we learn in this conversation, the number of shifting constraints relative to traditional PCB fabrication is quite large and can sometimes conflict with each other.
Standard Of Excellence: The Products of the Future
09/19/2023 | Anaya Vardya -- Column: Standard of ExcellenceIn my last column, I discussed cutting-edge innovations in printed circuit board technology, focusing on innovative trends in ultra HDI, embedded passives and components, green PCBs, and advanced substrate materials. This month, I’m following up with the products these new PCB technologies are destined for. Why do we need all these new technologies?
Experience ViTrox's State-of-the-Art Offerings at SMTA Guadalajara 2023 Presented by Sales Channel Partner—SMTo Engineering
09/18/2023 | ViTroxViTrox, which aims to be the world’s most trusted technology company, is excited to announce that our trusted Sales Channel Partner (SCP) in Mexico, SMTo Engineering, S.A. de C.V., will be participating in SMTA Guadalajara Expo & Tech Forum. They will be exhibiting in Booth #911 from the 25th to the 26th of October 2023, at the Expo Guadalajara in Jalisco, Mexico.
Intel Unveils Industry-Leading Glass Substrates to Meet Demand for More Powerful Compute
09/18/2023 | IntelIntel announced one of the industry’s first glass substrates for next-generation advanced packaging, planned for the latter part of this decade.