December 2017 • SMT Magazine 87
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IMI 9M2017 Revenues
Up 29%
EMS firm Integrated Mi-
cro-Electronics Inc. (IMI)
posted $795.2 million
in revenues for the first
nine months of 2017, an
increase of 29% year-on-
year due to positive ef-
fects of recent acquisitions and a rising demand in
the automotive and industrial segments.
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NPL and SMART Group
to Hold Design, Process &
Reliability Seminar
The National Physi-
cal Laboratory and
SMART Group will
hold a seminar No-
vember 9, 2017, that will showcase the latest re-
search and results from NPL projects looking at
solder joint and contamination failure, coating
thickness measurement, solder joint reliability, and
high temperature reliability for alternative solders
and substrates materials.
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IPC APEX EXPO 2018 Educational
Programs Highlight Tech's
Accelerating Speed of Change
Changing technolo-
gies that are driving
the electronics indus-
try will take center
stage throughout the
IPC APEX EXPO 2018 technical conference and
professional development sessions, which will take
place February 24 - March 1 at the San Diego Con-
vention Center in San Diego, California.
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New Software Toolkit, CFX
Messaging Library Expedites
Connected Factory Exchange
Implementation
IPC is proud to announce
that through today's do-
nation and legal transfer
of a technology from Ae-
gis Software, the industry
will have an open-source
engineering toolkit that
simplifies and expedites both CFX (connected fac-
tory exchange) data message creation, and mes-
sage communication from machine-to-machine
and/or machine-to-broker in a CFX network.
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The Value and Importance
of Training and Certifying
Employees
Training, certification and edu-
cation are central pillars at IPC.
John Mitchell, IPC president
and CEO, discusses the value of
training, certification and edu-
cation and how IPC's programs
can help grow your business.
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Libra Industries Strengthens
Post-Reflow AOI Process
Libra Industries has completed
the installation of a new Om-
ron VT-S730 3D Post-Reflow
AOI system at its Dallas, Texas
facility. The company now can
certify its SMT production with
full IPC standard compliance
using Omron's new 3D-SJI technology.
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