102 SMT Magazine • April 2016
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Best Technical paper at ipC
apEX EXpO 2016 Selected
The technical pa-
pers "Round Robin
of High Frequency
Test Methods by
IPC-D24C Task
Group" by Glenn Oliver of DuPont Electronics &
Communications, and "optimizing Thermo-Me-
chanical Reliability of Components with Flat Gull
Wing Leads" by Simon Wolfangel of robert Bosch
GmbH were the considered the best papers at
IPC APeX eXPo 2016.
2
iTl Upgrades UK Facility
to Double pCBa
Manufacturing Capacity
Innovative manu-
facturer ITL has
launched a high
volume PCB man-
ufacturing service
for medical devic-
es, after upgrading its automated surface mount
line to a europlacer iineo II and revamping the en-
tire PCB area at its UK facility.
3
ipC Joins NextFlex
IPC — As-
sociation
Connect-
ing elec-
tronics Industries has become a partner of next-
Flex, America's flexible hybrid electronics manu-
facturing institute. As part of the national net-
work for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI), this
new public-private partnership aims to establish
America as the global leader in the flexible hybrid
electronics manufacturing space.
4
Expert assembly launches
New Quality initiatives
Southern Cali-
fornia EMS pro-
vider expert
Assembly Ser-
vices recently
enhanced that
control with the
addition of ul-
tra-low RH component and PCB storage and dry-
ing by Super Dry.
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