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Speaking of this Week — May 21, 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.
Trade show news continues to dominate this week, what with so many exciting shows coming up — and good news about past shows rolling in. We've also got the three Ps of progress, partnerships and personnel, plus a financial announcement and look at the components side of the industry as well. Let's do it:
- The Minneapolis-based SMTA announced that Charlie Barnhart of Technology Forecasters Inc. won Best Paper at its Ninth Annual Pan Pacific Microelectronics Symposium in February for his work on contract manufacturing strategies. Meanwhile, NEPCON East/Electro and Assembly East from earlier this month appear to have been a success: The events' 4,013 attendees represented a 14 percent increase in attendance from 2003. Looking ahead, Carlsbad, Calif.-based Machine Vision Products Inc. (MVP) announced it will display its new AOI system at NEPCON UK, taking place next week. At MD&M East in mid-June in New York City, Allentown, Pa.-based FlexLink Systems will host a press conference as well as hourly presentations at its booth. Finally, Washington, D.C.-based IMAPS and the American Ceramic Society (ACerS) will co-sponsor the International Conference on Ceramic Interconnect and Ceramic Microsystems Technology next April in Baltimore, in conjunction with the ACerS Annual Meeting.
- Updating the ol' Web site seems to be the latest trend from companies in the industry. Case in point: Fremont, Calif.-based Bliss Industries announced a new lean manufacturing resource on its site in President Ken Bliss, while MVP changed its site to display on one page. Meanwhile, Santa Clara, Calif.-based Taiwan Sunball International Ltd. changed its name to Profound Material Technology Co. Ltd. to accommodate its acquisition of Advance Precision Technology. In the white-hot military arena, Los Angeles-based Teledyne Technologies' Teledyne Electronic Safety Products unit won a $2.4 million, one-year contract from the Naval Inventory Control Point in Mechanicsburg, Pa. to build Recovery Sequencers. Worthington, UK-based KIC Europe appointed SmartTec as its distributor for Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and San Jose, Calif.-based eDFX Services Inc. selected Lake Forest, Calif.-based Valor Computerized Systems' Trilogy 5000 pre-production engineering solution. Herzlia, Israel-based Tecnomatix Technologies Ltd. entered into an agreement with Germany-based EXAPT to offer an integrated numeric control verification solution for a range of manufacturers. Helsinki, Finland-based Elcoteq Network Corp. became one of the only global EMS providers to join the WiMAX Forum, which helps promote the use of wireless specifications. Finally, Lake Success, N.Y.-based Park Electochemical Corp. announced this week that it would integrate its Mirebeau, France-based Nelco, SAS subsidiary into its Neltec businesses.
- Personnel news continues to thrive: Myrtle Beach, S.C.-based AVX Corp. appointed Joseph Stach to its Board of Directors; George Wood becamse sales manager of the Americas for the Selective Soldering Division of Kenosha, Wis.-based Pro-mation Inc.; Franklin, Mass.-based Speedline Technologies Inc. appointed Ed Nauss as sales engineer of MPM products and Rich Burke as sales engineer, reflow products; and Campbell, Calif.-based Camstar Systems Inc. made Mark Gonia and Manash Chakraborty senior sales managers.
- AVX Corp. announced that its sales for its fourth quarter, ended March 31, were up 20 percent year-over-year to $15.8 million. For the fiscal year, sales totaled $1.1 billion.
- Finally, the Arlington, Va.-based Electronic Components, Assemblies and Materials Association (ECA) announced that the monthly order index for electronic components continued to trend upward, marking the ninth month in a row where there was a rise in the 12-month moving average. Good news!
This just in: According to this week's Quick Vote, 38 percent of you plan to take a week off this summer, 29 percent say two weeks, 8 percent of you are looking at three, 8 percent more say less than a week, and 8 percent of you say more than a month. Finally, some of you ought to get out more often: 8 percent of those polled are not taking any time off this summer.
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.