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Preview the Upcoming Mexitrónica Show
October 13, 2008 |Estimated reading time: 4 minutes
GUADALAJARA, Mexico Mexico's National Chamber for Electronics, Telecommunication, and IT Industries (CANIETI) in partnership with ROC Exhibitions Inc. will present Mexitrónica, October 2123, 2008, at Expo Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. The exposition and conference, now in its 14th year, drew more than 6,000 attendees in 2007. Following are some of the highlights for the conference and show floor.
Mexitrónica is part of Mexico's International Design and Manufacturing Technology Week, featuring a range of tools, materials, capital equipment, components, and services for small and large electronics assemblers. A buying center inside the expo will provide a private work environment where pre-registered buyers from the industry's high-volume manufacturers can conduct scheduled business meetings during exhibition hours. The buying center is sponsored by CADELEC, Mexico's electronics industry user group. Mexitrónica workshops and conference sessions are presented by a mix of industry consultants, manufacturers, associations, and suppliers and cover a range of technical and management topics. Subjects include conversion to lead-free manufacturing; static control in the workplace; counterfeit components; lean manufacturing; SPC; six-sigma case studies; rework and repair; and system design concepts for tomorrow's products.
More than 120 exhibitors will bring equipment, materials, and other supplies to the tradeshow.
Cookson Electronics Engineered Products will be exhibiting its advanced stencil technologies as part of the Cookson Electronics Assembly Materials exhibit. ALPHA high-performance assembly materials will be featured, including the ALPHA CUT, NICKEL, and FORM product lines as well as advanced stencil services, including Data Scaling. Booth 701. www.cooksonelectronics.com.
Krayden Inc. will offer free seminars for board protection with Dow Corning materials and lead-free solders. Krayden will offer technical knowledge on board protection of their manufacturers at the Expo Guadalajara Business Center, level 2, above the Mexitronica registration lobby. www.krayden.com.
Nihon Superior USA, a subsidiary of Nihon Superior Co. Ltd., will feature a newly expanded range of SN100C products. Nihon Superior is extending the range of material forms in which the tin/copper/nickel/germanium alloy SN100C is available. SN100C (040), an addition to the eCore line, is a high-reliability, halogen-free SN100C lead-free flux-cored solder wire for hand soldering. No-clean ePaste for general reflow purposes and ePaste, a special low voiding paste for critical applications such as die attach, are available for reflow soldering. SN100C P600 is a completely halogen-free SN100C lead-free solder paste suitable for high-density assemblies with stable printability, excellent wettability, and non-melting reduction. Nihon Superior is supporting SN100C applications in flip chip and area-array packages with a range of eBalls. A solution for the lead-free HASL process, SN100CL features good drainage to prevent bridges on fine-pitch circuitry. SN100CL wets quickly and offers low copper erosion. FCT Solder, a division of FCT Assembly and an authorized Licensee of Nihon Superior Co. Ltd.'s SN100C product line, will showcase its line of SN100C products and technologies with Nihon Superior. Booth 402. www.nihonsuperior.co.jp and www.fctassembly.com.
Indium will exhibit its Indium8.9 solder. Indium8.9 lead-free no-clean solder paste is an air reflow solder paste that performs like tin/lead paste. As CSP, 0201, and 01005 technology is becoming more mainstream, PCB assemblers are challenged with achieving high solder paste transfer efficiency through small stencil apertures, the company asserts. Indium8.9 was formulated to produce consistent print volumes through apertures below the minimum area ratio of 0.66. The paste exhibits low voiding (<5%) over many different profiles when soldering BGAs with via-in-pad technology. It also offers a robust processing window that can minimize potential defects, as well as accommodate various board sizes and throughput requirements. Indium8.9 was designed to improve first pass yields and reduce field failures. It is said to be thermally stable and maintain a soft, pliable residue after reflow. Booth 608. www.indium.com.
ESSEMTEC will showcase several SMT production systems. SP003MLV, a semi-automatic stencil printer, features trans-stencil vision and offers a motorized print head and vertical stencil separation. Reportedly low-maintenance, the printer can accommodate stencils or screens up to 23 × 23". Pantera-XV multi-flexible SMD placement system suits prototyping and mid-sized production runs. The PANTERA-XV provides high placement accuracy and speed, a broad application range, high reliability, low maintenance, and short changeover times. It handles 0201s to 50 × 50 mm QFPs with 0.4-mm pitch. Expert-SAFP with UP3100 universal prototyping station with integrated vision and placement accurately and quickly mounts small batches and prototypes of assembled SMD boards. The pick-and-place head is air suspended. It picks from reels and sticks, and from rest tape strips as well as loose components. A turning station for upside-down components is standard. RO300FC-C convection reflow oven with RO-CONTROL software boasts homogenous heating and high-temperature soldering of sensitive electronics. Standard and lead-free pastes can be used. RO-CONTROL combines all the important functions for the process evaluation and process control for reflow ovens, similar to thermal profilers. Booth 536. (972) 226-9611; ron@torenko.com.
Fine Line Stencil, a division of FCT Assembly, will highlight its laser stencils. The stencils are fabricated with next-generation laser technology and advanced materials under an ISO-9001-certified process. Stencils on display include SLIC Stencils and Electroformed (ElectroLaser) Stencils. Booth 402. www.fctassembly.com.
Additional exhibitors include Newark InOne, Blackfox Training Institute, YESTech, Desa Technologies, Lambda Americas, Manncorp, Saturn Electronics, Viscom, Henkel, and many more.
For more information, visit www.mexitronica.com.