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the aerospace, aviation and defense industries.
This standard is strongly supported and adhered
to by major aerospace OEMs and is being re-
quired by vendors within the supply chain on an
increasing basis.
Eltek Has Supplied $1.6 Million Orders
to a Strategic Customer
Eltek Ltd. announced today
that since January
2016 it has supplied approximately US$ 1.6 mil-
lion of technologically advanced solutions to a
strategic customer. The customer selected Eltek
because of
its capability to produce high-perfor-
mance and reliable solutions.
Flex Talk: Troubleshooting
Flex Circuit
Applications for Mil/Aero Projects
I imagine that everyone has been in this position
at one time or another: Despite everyone's best
attempt at creating the perfect design, PCB fabri
-
cation and assembly, something goes wrong and
the troubleshooting begins.
Colonial Circuits: A Veteran-Owned
Small Business
Mark Osborn, president and founder of Colonial
Circuits, a truly American board shop specializing
in the fabrication of high-technology PCBs, is also
a proud Vietnam veteran who is still serving our
country by building PCBs for most of America's
critical defense and aerospace programs.
Cirexx Develops High-Heat Flex
Circuits with HT Material
Cirexx International now offers a line of flexible
circuit products that employ the recently devel-
oped DuPont Pyralux high-temperature HT mate-
rial.
Flex Talk:
Troubleshooting
Flex Circuit
Applications for Mil/Aero Projects
I imagine that everyone has been in this position
at one time or another: Despite everyone's best
attempt at creating the perfect design, PCB fabri-
cation and assembly, something goes wrong and
the troubleshooting begins.
All About Flex: Flex Circuit Specifications
for Commercial and Military Applications
Applications across the various markets for printed
circuit boards can have significantly different speci-
fications and performance requirements. IPC-6013
is an industry-driven specification that defines the
performance requirements and acceptance fea-
tures for flexible printed circuit boards.
EIPC Reliability Workshop, Tamworth, UK,
September 22, 2016
EIPC's reliability workshop, presented in coopera-
tion with Amphenol Invotec, attracted a capacity
audience from eight countries—some delegates
having travelled from as far away as Russia—to
take the opportunity to learn first-hand how to
meet OEM, ODM and EMS product quality and
safety requirements, and
to understand how in-
terconnection stress testing techniques could be
applied to determine the reliability of multilayer
PCBs.
The Right Approach: FOD and the
Aerospace Industr
y
Unless you are currently building aerospace prod
-
uct to AS9100, you are probably saying, "What
the heck is FOD?" What started out as a require-
ment to prevent damage to aircraft
parts such as
engines has been flowed down to any component
or assembly including PCBs.
John Cardone on Designing Flex
for Spacecraft
If you watched footage of the Mars rover driving
all over the red planet, you're familiar with some
of John Cardone's handiwork. He's
been design-
ing rigid, flex, and rigid-flex circuitry for space-
craft since he joined JPL in the early '80s, and he's
worked on some of the more ground-breaking flex
circuits along the way.
American Standard Circuits Achieves
AS9100 Rev C Certification
American Standard Circuit has achieved its AS9100
Rev C certification, the internationally recognized
quality management system standard specific to
MilAero007
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