Component Management

The electronics design world is by now aware that there is a very serious components shortage. Allocation and shortages hit every few years, but this one seems to be the worst in recent memory, the hardest hit seem to be ceramic capacitors, but other passives as well as a variety of connectors and silicon parts are also caught up in the shortage storm. By Duane Benson, Chief Technology Champion at Screaming Circuits

Researchers at Virginia Tech have synthesised a biodegradable alternative to polyolefins using a catalyst and the polyester polymer, and this could eventually have a profound impact on sustainability efforts. Rong Tong, assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and affiliated faculty member of Macromolecules Innovation Institute (MII), led the team of researchers, whose findings were published in the journal Nature C...

Metcal today announced plans to exhibit at the SMTA Upper Midwest Expo & Tech Forum, scheduled to take place Thursday, 14th June, 2018 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Minneapolis - Park Place in Minneapolis, MN. The company will demonstrate its Connection Validation (CV) Soldering System with new hand-pieces, Digital Hot Air Pencil and Solder Tip Cleaner.

Saint Donatus, symbol of the city of Zadar is classified among the most famous and most valuable monuments in Croatia. Moreover, due to its unusual cylindrical appearance and robust monumentality, it belongs to the most significant European pre-Romanesque churches. The church is a protected cultural heritage listed in the Register of the Republic of Croatia on UNESCO's list.

The SupaClean filtration system from Amazon Filters is being installed by paints and coatings manufacturers prior to filling lines to remove impurities such as skins, coagulants and undispersed pigments from their final product. In the highly competitive world of paints and coatings it is essential that manufacturers and users have a filtration solution that will ensure the high quality of their final products. 

The world fell in love with plastics because they’re cheap, convenient, lightweight and long-lasting. For these same reasons, plastics are now trashing the Earth. Colorado State University chemists have announced in the journal Science another major step toward waste-free, sustainable materials that could one day compete with conventional plastics.

Lubricating stainless steel and self-aligning linear ball bearings has never been easier, with the new design pillow blocks and flange blocks from LM76, which feature a lubrication fitting. Additionally it includes an alignment set screw in the pillow blocks and flange blocks, and the stainless steel and self aligning linear bearings are modified by having an alignment flat ground on the bearings' outer shell and drilling a hole through the ...

The new S3100 Sign & Label Printer from Brady enables users to easily print a wide range of reliable safety signs and facility labels, even in standalone mode, to increase workplace safety and efficiency on demand. A wide range of labels & signs The new S3100 Sign & Label Printer enables users to print a wide range of signs and labels to increase safety and efficiency in any workplace.

New from Intertronics, the Thinky ARM-310 Engineering Compounds Mixer offers an alternative to mixing by hand, with simple operation and fully homogenous results in a few minutes; results which are repeatable time after time. The bench-top machine has a compact 300x340mm footprint and costs less than £5,000.

Cleaning, an integral part of many manufacturing and maintenance processes, is often critical to the performance of a broad range of technologies in the semiconductor, defence, MEMS, photonics and biotech industries. 'Cleaning', in this case, refers to the use of agents such as solvents, acids or bases to remove unwanted particulates and other contaminates from products ranging from optics to semiconductor and electronic devices.