18 SMT Magazine • May 2016
RTW IPC aPEX EXPO: Blackfox Celebrating
20 years of Providing Quality Training
Sharon Montana-Beard, vice president of sales and
operations at Blackfox, talks with I-Connect007's
Andy Shaughnessy about the company's 20th year
in business, their recent partnership with Pace, as
well as their latest developments and activities.
RTW IPC aPEX EXPO: Technica USa and aSM
americas Highlight Expanded Partnership
In this interview with I-Connect007's Andy Shaugh-
nessy, Jeff Timms, managing director, ASM Assem-
bly Systems Americas, and Frank Medina, president
of Technica, discuss their expanded cooperation.
RTW IPC aPEX EXPO: Cogiscan Explains
Benefits of Having Real-Time Factory
Intelligence
Francois Monette, VP of sales and marketing at Co-
giscan, speaks to I-Connect007 Guest editor Mark
Thompson about modern factory intelligence, and
the benefits of having this capability in assembly lines.
RTW IPC aPEX EXPO: aIM's O'Neill
Highlights M8 Solder Paste
Timothy O'Neill, technical marketing manager at
AIM Solder, updates I-Connect007 Guest Editor
Mark Thompson about the company's M8 solder
paste, which they launched at last year's APEX.
RTW IPC aPEX EXPO: Mentor Graphics
Makes Internet of Manufacturing
affordable
Michael Ford, marketing development manager at
Mentor Graphics, and I-Connect007 editor Andy
Shaughnessy discuss the Open Manufacturing
Language (oML), the challenges in supporting
the hundreds of thousands of machines that are
out there at shopfloors already, and how Mentor
is making the Internet of Manufacturing affordable
for everyone in the PCB assembly supply chain.
RTW IPC aPEX EXPO: alpha Explains
approach to address Miniaturization
Challenges
Jason Fullerton of Alpha Assembly Solutions dis-
cusses with Dr. Jennie Hwang the company's ap-
proach to helping customers address product reli-
ability issues amid the continuing miniaturization
trend in electronics.
Rogers' PES Introduces New curamik
CoolPerformance Plus Coolers
Rogers Corporation's Power Electronics Solutions
group's latest high-performance cooling material,
the curamik CoolPerformance Plus, is designed to
dissipate large amounts of heat and provide re-
liable thermal management of high-power laser
diodes and other heat-generating optical devices.
IPC Crowns Winner of Hand Soldering
World Championship
Completing the championship round with a score
of 534 points out of 550, Vu Thi Xuan, UMC Elec-
tronics Vietnam Ltd., was crowned champion,
earning her a $1,000 cash prize, a new America
Hakko Products, Inc. soldering station and brag-
ging rights as the world's best hand solderer.
Indium addresses ICT Challenges with
New Indium10.2HF Solder Paste
Indium Corporation has launched Indium10.2HF,
a halogen- and Pb-free, no-clean solder paste that
is specifically formulated to address in-circuit test-
ing challenges.
Mycronic Launches Mask Writer for
Top Critical Display Photomasks
Mycronic AB's latest display mask writer defines
a new resolution standard for top critical display
photomasks.
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