JUNE 2022 I SMT007 MAGAZINE 69
VJ Electronix's
Brennan Caissie
shares the ben-
efits of a new
inspection tool
that can be used
on a variety of boards, with an automated sys-
tem that takes the pressure off the manufacturing
floor operators and can provide feedback all the
way to the design process.
Fast growing, integrated
EMS specialist, ESCATEC,
fresh from posting a
record fiscal year in 2021,
has announced a new
partnership with noted,
Zagreb-based, electron-
ics design house, Byte Lab.
We are expe-
riencing short-
ages like we
have never
faced in our
lifetime. It is more important than ever
that we all work together—and I really
do mean all of us—and form a cohesive
partnership.
Buy new or make do?
It's an age-old debate
for manufacturers who
are trying to decide
how best to manage
machine assets inside
their manufacturing
facilities. New machines are expensive, but so
is operating existing machines at a comparative
deficit.
It is likely that
those who are
putting together
IQ tests will
favor the kinds
of "smarts" that
they themselves have. Humans are very
complex, however. Everyone is differ-
ent, with natural skills and abilities in a
multitude of disciplines: technical, artis-
tic, social, and others.
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VJ Electronix: Automating the
X-ray Inspection Process
How Smart Are You?
Are Your Existing Machines Enough
to Keep Up?
Standard of Excellence: From
Adversaries to Collaborators—
Let's Do This Together
It should be clear
by now that my
enthusiasm for
X-ray knows no
bounds. So, for-
give me for not setting my bias aside, but
when it comes to X-ray imaging, you probably
fall into one of the following categories: you
don't need X-ray and you know it, you need
X-ray but don't know it, you have X-ray but
are underutilizing it, or you are the rarest of
birds who has X-ray but just doesn't need it.
X-Rayted Files: X-ray Everything! ESCATEC Boosts Design
Services Offering in Europe
in New Partnership with
Croatia's Byte Lab
