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December 31, 1969 |Estimated reading time: 4 minutes
Chase EMS Group Announces New Test/Inspection ServicesWEST BRIDGEWATER, Mass. Chase EMS Group is offering a complete and comprehensive range of inspection and test services for electronics assemblies, including automated optical inspection (AOI); X-ray; GenRad in-circuit test (ICT); and functional testing capabilities.
"We've added new technology and new personnel to underscore our commitment to providing the highest quality manufacturing solutions to our customers," said Andrew Chase, vice president.
In addition to investing in new state-of-the-art X-ray inspection equipment, the company added a GenRad ICT. Chase also provides burn-in, ICT, system configuration, functional test, digital, analog, RF and dynamic thermal cycling.
The group's new transmissive real-time X-ray system can handle an 18 x 24" board at 8 μm resolution, and also is equipped with new software that allows the operator to measure the size of a ball grid array (BGA) solder sphere and calculate the size and density of any voids in the solder spheres.
MSL Announces New Facilities, PromotionCONCORD, Mass. Manufacturer' Services Ltd. (MSL) established an optical test and process development laboratory at its Mount Prospect, Ill., manufacturing facility. The laboratory will serve as the company's worldwide center for optical process development and manufacturing personnel training.
In response to increasing demand from OEMs in the optical arena to outsource their manufacturing needs, MSL opened the lab, and will serve customers in the early stages of product development as well as in test and manufacturing process specification, ensuring shorter time-to-market.
In a related story, MSL opened a 55,000 sq. ft. manufacturing facility in Lowell, Mass. This, the newest of MSL's 18 worldwide sites, will provide local and regional OEMs complete design and manufacturing capability. Specifically, it will serve more than 30 electronics companies, 95 percent of which are located in New England. The facility will provide predominately small to medium production, and final integration and testing of products.
MSL celebrates the grand opening of their Lowell, Mass-based prototype facility.
Meanwhile, the company appointed Willem De Vries president of their Asian operations. He will direct the company's manufacturing, sales and marketing operations throughout Asia, and will oversee all expansion opportunities, reporting directly to Bob Donahue, MSL's president and COO. Prior to this appointment, De Vries was CEO for Alphatec, where he was responsible for building a strong corporate infrastructure and growing revenue after corporate restructuring. "Willem has a wealth of manufacturing experience and will provide MSL with a strong and proven leader in Asia," stated Donahue. "He has successfully demonstrated an ability to grow revenue and maintain excellent relationships with customers in his previous endeavors. These traits are consistent with MSL's business objective and made him an attractive candidate to oversee our Asian operations."
EMS/Suppliers Demonstrate Standards for Product Data ExchangeHERNDON, Va. A coalition of electronics manufacturers, solution providers and standards organizations demonstrated an exchange of engineering and manufacturing data over the Internet at a RosettaNet Partner Conference in April. The demonstration illustrated how the manufacturing supply Web can increase efficiencies, shorten time-to-market and improve return on investment by using standards-based interfaces to exchange data between partners.
The standards showcased in the demonstration are the first of several initiated by the National Electronics Manufacturing Initiative's (NEMI) Virtual Factory Information Interchange Project (VFIIP). VFIIP has worked closely with both RosettaNet and IPC Association Connecting Electronics Industries to ensure consistency between the two organizations' standards and to leverage efforts toward the common goal of enabling agile, cost-effective data exchange among supply chain partners.
Organizations involved in the demonstration include Agile Software, Extricity, Georgia Institute of Technology, Intel, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Netfish Technologies, Nortel Networks, PTC, and SCI Systems. In the prototype demo, proposed RosettaNet Partner Interface Processes (PIP) and a proposed IPC standard supported data interchange between two OEMs (represented by Nortel Network and Intel), two EMS providers (represented by SCI Systems and Georgia Tech) and a supplier (represented by NIST). The demonstration specifically showed how the standards and related PIPs can be used in concert to initiate a new product build and implement engineering change requests.
Jabil Technology Service ExpandsST. PETERSBURG, Fla. Jabil Circuit Inc. established a new expanded design center located in Jabil's Auburn Hills, Mich.,manufacturing facility. The center supports Jabil Technology Services (JTS), and includes a design laboratory as well as a specialized vehicle laboratory.
"We are very excited about the growth potential that we have seen on the horizon because as businesses try to reduce internal cost and resources, the need for outside product design support increases," said Joel Haselhuhn, Jabil's design services manager in Auburn Hills. "Michigan's 10 years of design experience have provided us with a strong foundation in a broad range of products, including automotive controls and products, computer systems, peripherals, information technology equipment, and appliance controls. This experience lends itself to applications we are seeing emerge in the industry today."
Haselhuhn cites the integration of consumer-type products into vehicles, with the development of in-vehicle driver information systems, personal computers in automobiles and entertainment/multimedia systems as examples of design applications that will be supported out of the expanded facility.
Jabil Design Services, a division of JTS, provides complete design solutions, design solutions for subsystems only or cost-reduced design solutions of existing products.
IEC Doubles Capacity in MexicoNEWARK, N.J. Contract electronics manufacturing (CEM) company, IEC Electronics Corp. signed a lease to more than double its manufacturing capacity in Reynosa, Mexico. An additional l62,000 sq. ft. is now available for box-build, SMT and thru-hole assembly of PCBs.
IEC began manufacturing in the facility after the building was completed in January 1999. Initially there was 50,000 sq. ft. of space; the addition will give the plant a total of 212,000 sq. ft. The plant is located directly across the industrial park from Symbol Technologies, an IEC primary customer.
IEC's president and CEO Thomas Lovelock said, "The additional space in Mexico is part of our ongoing strategy to offer a low-cost manufacturing services option to our customers."