Why not take our Rework Challenge, your opportunity to visit the Rework Experience 2016 organised by Bob Willis with support from the IPC, NPL and SMART Group. The challenge is to rework a board containing a QFP, BGA, CSP and QFN packages and meet IPC inspection standards. Can you do it successfully? Well, you can try in Germany and the UK this year.

With just over two weeks to go until National Electronics Week running from Tuesday 12th-Thursday 14th April, now is the time to ensure you have registered for your free ticket for fast and easy access. With an estimated 30,000 industry professionals travelling to the NEC for this event and it’s 5 co-located industry events, this is an absolute necessity for engineers, business developers, manufacturers and CEOs in this sector.

National Physical Laboratory, NPL, has created an interactive assembly and soldering defect database, each month readers can add other defect solution to their own collection. The database allows engineers to search and view countless defects and solutions or submit their defects on-line for recommendations at http://defectsdatabase.npl.co.uk/.

National Electronics Week will form part of the largest gathering of industry professionals in the manfacturing arena at The NEC in April. Running alongside 6 other industry events including MACH and Drives and Controls there will a vast array of products and services on display.

National Physical Laboratory, NPL, has created an interactive assembly and soldering defect database, each month readers can add other defect solution to their own collection. The database allows engineers to search and view countless defects and solutions or submit their defects on-line for recommendations at http://defectsdatabase.npl.co.uk/.

National Physical Laboratory NPL have created an interactive assembly and soldering defect database allowing engineers to search through a range of defects covering components, PCB and assembly problems. The aim is to add more process, material and environmental defects each month to complement online submissions from readers. http://defectsdatabase.npl.co.uk/

With more companies and brands already showcasing at National Electronics Week 2016 than ever before, this year is set to be the biggest gathering of electronic and manufacturing professionals in the UK. With the coming together of MACH, Drives & Controls and five other industry specific events all under one roof, it is an engineer’s wonderland.

This year National Electronics Week will run alongside MACH, Drives & Controls and five other industry events to bring together the largest gathering of Manufacturing and Electronics professionals at The NEC in Birmingham. Here is a look at what will be going on with some of our exhibitors this year:

New Events Ltd are delighted to announce that National Electronics South Africa will return to Sandton Convention Centre, 2nd to 3rd March, 2016. This is the only event to shine an international spotlight on the innovation and capabilities of the South African Electronics Industry. This event attracts both local and international companies, all showing their latest products and services as well as offering live demonstrations, technical support a...

Running from 21st to 22nd April at the Birmingham NEC, National Electronics Week will host the NPL & SMART Group Printing & Assembly Automatic Optical Inspection Experience feature area. The experience is presented in the video below by Bob Willis, the experience's feature co-ordinator.

The PXI Show was a successful addition to the National Electronics Week in 2014 so the organisers have decided to repeat the exercise in 2015. For those who haven’t seen it the PXI Show is a Technical Seminar and Exhibition focusing exclusively on the popular modular Electronic Test, Measurement and Automation platform.

New Events has announced its collaboration with Fortronic, an international electronics forum. New Events is now the management company for the forum in the UK, and will introduce it at National Electronics Week 2015, which takes place from 21st to 22nd April at the NEC in Birmingham.

  The NEW (National Electronics Week) exhibition, which is now in its eighth year, will be taking place from 21st to 22nd April at NEC, Birmingham. This venue features an extra 400m of floor space, allowing for more exhibitors than ever before. 

  Following success at National Electronics Week 2014, organisers have announced that Embedded Masterclass will return to the 2015 event, scheduled from 21st to 22nd April.

National Electronics Week is excited to publish their first look at the 2015 floor plan. With The Pavilion Hall booked for next year’s show there is over 400 extra square metres on the show floor up for grabs this time around. Not only that but with the return of our 4 Sector partners running the technical content seminars there will be more to see than ever before.

With bragging rights and prizes to be won, the IPC Hand Soldering Competition at National Electronics Week 2014 aims to add excitement to the 2014 event. The competition will seek to find the best hand soldering technician in the United Kingdom, with the first place winner also earning the chance to compete at the IPC World Championship at IPC APEX EXPO  2015, in San Diego, California.

At the National Electronics Week (held at the NEC in Birmingham from 8 to 10 April 2014), skilled competitors will go head to head in the IPC hand soldering competition with cash prizes of £300 for first place, £200 for second place and £100 for third place (as well as the bragging rights of being the best hand soldering technician in the United Kingdom). The first place winner will also earn the chance to compete at the IPC Wor...

Engineers can find it challenging to design systems based round FPGAs with integrated ARM processors. At the National Electronics Week (held at the NEC in Birmingham from 8 to 10 April 2014), the basics will be explained in depth at this year’s Embedded Masterclass.

Embedded Masterclass and National Electronics Week will join forces at the NEC in Birmingham from 8 to 10 April 2014. UMR’s Embedded Masterclass, a dedicated engineering design conference for the embedded community, will take place alongside the National Electronics Week exhibition.

NEW Events unveils that National Electronics Week 2014 is taking place from 8th – 10th April, in Hall 2 of The NEC in Birmingham for another year. NEW UK is a dynamic event that offers electronics professionals in-depth product knowledge and added value to develop within the electronics sector. The UK electronics industry is a world leader within this field and NEW UK is the only show in this country dedicated solely to this area of expertise.