Events News

The internet could be on the brink of a ‘capacity crunch’ that would force us to rethink the way we use it, according to Professor Andrew Ellis of Aston University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science. Current technologies will reach their limits within the next eight years, Professor Ellis will warn in a talk at Lightfest 2015 at the Library of Birmingham on the 25th of September, and without radical developments and rap...

Valtronic announces that it will participate in an upcoming Manufacturing Day at the Formtek facility on 2nd October, 2015. Formtek has gathered a group of manufacturing companies and invited high school and college students to meet at its facility, for a facility tour and various presentations. The purpose of the event is to join manufacturers across the country during the month of October, which is delegated as 'Manufacturing Month'.

Young entrepreneurs aged 16 to 26 from the UK are set to converge on WeWork Moorgate on 26th and 27th September 2015 for a large-scale hackathon, centred on tackling big issues, from local to global. Each will be encouraged to develop teams and partnerships around shared concerns, while using their design and programming skills to build applications and explore solutions for the some of the world’s most pressing concerns. The hope is that p...

Japan Unix announces plans to exhibit in Booth 8 at the upcoming SMTA Expo in Guadalajara, Mexico, which is scheduled to take place from 14th to 15th October at the Riu Hotel in Guadalajara, Mexico. Company representatives will demonstrate the 410S series Japan Unix Desktop Selective Soldering Robots.

Pickering Interfaces will be showcasing their latest PXI, PCI & LXI switching and simulation solutions at productronica, Munich, Germany 10th to 13th Novermber. These new products include the PXI 5Amp Solid-State Multiplexer. This range of PXI multiplexers uses solid-state relays with high tolerance to surge currents and hot switching events. Each multiplexer provides an isolation relay in the common to minimise capacitive loading when expand...

  Kurtz Ersa North America will exhibit at the upcoming SMTA Guadalajara Expo & Tech Forum, scheduled to take place from 14th to 15th October at the Hotel Riu in Guadalajara, Mexico. Company representatives will display the R/PL 550, Mobile Scope, ERSASCOPE 2 and i-CON VARIO 4.

Questions were raised over whether WiFi is safe with the introduction of LTE for unlicensed spectrum at the Cambridge Wireless (CW) Mobile Broadband SIG event, hosted by University College London at IDEALondon.

At its Rome 30th Plenary, the Small Cell Forum outlined six new development programmes designed to ease and speed small cell deployment, focus on developing technical solutions for HetNet integration, and establish requirements for 5G.

CyberOptics announced that it will exhibit in Booth 814 at SMTA International, scheduled to take place from 29th to 30th September 2015 at the Donald Stephens Convention Centre in Rosemont, IL. Company representatives will showcase CyberOptics’ recently launched SQ3000 3D AOI system.

Nordson DAGE and Nordson YESTECH, divisions of Nordson, will exhibit in booth 606 at SMTA International, scheduled to take place from 19th to 20th September 2015 at the Donald Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, IL. Nordson’s team of test and inspection experts will demonstrate the XD7600NT Diamond FP X-ray inspection system from Nordson DAGE and FX-940 AOI In-line PCB inspection system from Nordson YESTECH.