Component Management

Allowing the copper panel and phototool to be aligned with total accuracy, Rainbow Technology Systems has released an updated version of its desktop coating system. The Desktop Coater features a camera system mounted on an overhead gantry for operators to manually adjust the position of the phototool until it is perfectly aligned. Double-sided panels can be processed as a result of back to front alignment.

Conrad Electronic Business Supplies has added support for all 31 new soldering tips joining the Weller range as part of the manufacturer’s tips initiative. The new choices bring the total number of Weller products now available from Conrad to over 350. The new expanded range of soldering tips gives outstanding control over performance, price and total cost of ownership.

Techsil have introduced 2 new one-component thermal interface materials to the electronics market. While fans, heat sinks, and even liquid cooling and thermoelectric devices can be used to provide enough cooling power, the problem remains to get the heat from the hot components into the cooling hardware. Thermal Interface Materials (TIMs) are designed to fill in air gaps and microscopic irregularities, resulting in dramatically lower thermal resi...

Isola Group has announced the introduction of Tachyon-100G laminates and prepregs, which enable line cards required to transmit 100GbE at data rates in excess of 25Gb/s per channel. Tachyon-100G has identical electrical properties as its predecessor Tachyon; however, the Z-axis CTE on Tachyon-100G is more than 30% lower than Tachyon, making it more suitable for fabricating high-layer count, 0.8 mm pitch line cards with heavy 2 oz. copper inner la...

Nordson MARCH has revealed that recent studies have indicated that Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) feature improved coating adhesion when plasma treated prior to conformal coating. Enhancing surface wettability, the plasma treatment improved adhesion of the conformal coating to high-performance solder mask materials and other difficult-to-adhere-to substrates.

Manncorp’s 2004D series of multi-purpose, off-the-shelf dispensing solutions combine high-precision, 3-axis robots with integrated digital dispense controllers for a wide variety of SMT assembly tasks. Point-to-point, linear, or curved-arc application of solder pastes, solder masks, conductive epoxies, and other adhesives is simple and easy with fully synchronised hardware and software.

Master Bond EP112LS is a two part epoxy that is well suited for impregnation, potting, encapsulation, sealing and coating applications, particularly in the aerospace and optoelectronics industries. EP112LS is optically clear, features reliable non-yellowing properties and has a refractive index of 1.55.

To coincide with Graphene Week 2014, the Graphene Flagship announce that one of the largest-ever European research initiatives is doubling in size. 66 new partners are being invited to join the consortium following the results of a €9 million competitive call. While most partners are universities and research institutes, the share of companies, mainly SMEs, involved is increasing.

Kyzen will showcase its new stencil cleaning line at the SMTA Ohio Expo & Tech Forum, scheduled to take place Thursday, July 17, 2014 at the Doubletree Cleveland. The new line includes AQUANOX A8820, AQUANOX A8830 and CYBERSOLVC8882.

andersDX announced a comprehensive and highly affordable optical bonding service, to enhance the readability of displays in sunlit environments, especially out of doors. andersDX is aiming specifically at customers whose volumes in the past would have been too low to make optical bonding economic, offered on displays of 2.8-23.6” sizes with a very low minimum order quantity.