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Speaking of this Week — June 18, 2004
December 31, 1969 |Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
By Christine F. Della Monaca, Managing Editor, SMT
Speaking of this Week summarizes and analyzes events in the electronics assembly industry every Friday.
There's so much going on this week that I can barely keep up with it all. Progress news came fast and furious, and with some important industry events right around the corner, the organizations sponsoring them want everyone to know more about them. Companies and associations continue to cross geographical lines and come together, and there's personnel and financial news, too. On with the show:
- The Herndon, Va.-based NEMI was busy this week, announcing five new members — Centor Software Corp., MatrixOne, FoxConn, Microsoft and Speedline Technologies — as well as making recommendations for lead-free part identification through its Component and Board Marking Project. In the EMS realm, Irving, Texas-based Elcoteq Network Corp. added three new SMT lines at its Monterrey, Mexico plant, increasing capacity there 43 percent, while Morton, Ill.-based Preco Electronics announced that the company plans to incorporate Six Sigma throughout the company. (See this article from May SMT about how Preco initiated 5S lean manufacturing in its facility; you may have to register to read it.) Myrtle Beach, S.C.-based AVX Corp. was awarded by the InfoComm Development Authority of Singapore for its work on the new RosettaNet processes and standards. Carlsbad, Calif.-based Machine Vision Products Inc. announced it will open a new European headquarters, and all South Portland, Maine-based Fairchild Semiconductor manufacturing facilities worldwide that produce automotive products have been certified to automotive standard ISO/TS16949. Finally, Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Honeywell announced this week that the company will be implementing price increases between 4 and 14 percent for part of its Electronic Chemicals product line.
- In upcoming trade show news, Boca Raton, Fla.-based NRC Electronics Inc. has teamed up with Design Chain Associates and EPTAC Corp. for a lead-free seminar, which will take place in mid-July in NRC's Boca Raton facility. Looking ahead to the fall, the Minneapolis-based SMTA finalized its plans for SMTA International, taking place in late September in Rosemont, Ill., in conjunction with Assembly Technology Expo. The program will consist of 29 tutorials, more than 100 technical papers and panel discussions, workshops, symposiums, an Emerging Technologies Summit, and free events to be held daily. Taking place in Nice, France in mid-October, CARTS-Europe, held by the Arlington, Va.-based Electronic Components, Assemblies & Materials Association (ECA) is accepting technical papers. The deadline for submission of abstracts is June 28. Finally, Northbrook, Ill.-based IPC — Association Connecting Electronics Industries reported the results of its co-located APEX/IPC Printed Circuits Expo/IPC Designers Summit Attendee Survey, finding most of the 850 attendees polled reported that the co-located shows were excellent, good or very good. No surprise, then, that nearly 80 percent of the more than 150,000 net square feet of exhibit space for the 2005 shows is already sold out.
- In partnerships, Houston-based BP Microsystems is working with the Chinese government to strengthen the company's presence in the Asian marketplace, while Portsmouth, R.I.-based International Manufacturing Services Inc. appointed Columbus, Ohio-based DM Associates Inc. its representative in five Midwestern states. France-based Eolane is deploying Herzlia, Israel-based Tecnomatix Technologies Ltd.'s eMPower for Electronics solutions across its manufacturing sites in France through Tecnomatix sales partner Accelonix France. In similar news, Manugistics Group Inc. announced that Santa Clara, Calif.-based Sanmina-SCI Corp. will extend use of the company's solutions worldwide. Finally, another EMS provider, Milpitas, Calif.-based Solectron Corp. signed a definitive agreement to sell its Force Computers embedded computing business to Motorola Inc. (See EMS News from May SMT for more on Solectron's strategy of divesting non-key assets.
- In personnel, Utica, N.Y.-based Indium Corp. promoted Leo Devine to market development manager for wave solder products, while Mentor, Ohio-based Libra Industries named Ron Rehberger director of client services.
- Finally, in some (positive) financial news, AVX Corp. filed its 10-K Annual Report with the SEC, revealing that its net loss for the quarter and full financial year ended March 31 was reduced by $1.7 million from the preliminary results previously reported. And Salem, N.H.-based StockerYale Inc. completed the placement of a $5.5 million convertible note.
This just in: According to this week's Quick Vote, 71 percent of you say outsourcing is "very important" to your company, while 29 percent call it "somewhat important."
Have some insight on the industry? See something you don't agree with? Think I'm right on? Send it all to me at christinef@pennwell.com.