Super Dry Storage Options to Manage Intermetallic Growth

February 11, 2019 | Kelly Dack

Guest Editor Kelly Dack speaks with Richard Heimsch, director of Super Dry, about some of the differences between storing components and other materials for assembly floor storage versus long-term storage, and how Super Dry can help combat intermetallic growth.

RTW IPC APEX EXPO: Zentech on the Fourth Pillar of DoD Acquisitions, and NIST

February 8, 2019 | Real Time with...IPC

Steve Williams speaks with John Vaughan, VP of sales and marketing for Zentech, about their dominance in the military/aerospace market sector, the new "fourth pillar of DoD acquisitions," and how companies that do not take the NIST initiative seriously will be quickly left behind.

EPTE Newsletter: Taiwan Electronics Revenues Nosedive

February 12, 2019 | Dominique Numakura, DKN Research

The barometer for the Taiwanese electronics industry is falling, signaling bad weather ahead. December shipments for PWB manufacturers in Taiwan was 49.1 billion Taiwan dollars ($1.596 billion), which is a 20.9% decline from the...

Defense Speak Interpreted: DARPA ERI

January 29, 2019 | Dennis Fritz, Fritz Consulting

DARPA ERI stands for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Electronics Resurgence Initiative. This tongue-twisting acronym is the latest Department of Defense (DoD) effort to catch up and surpass world semiconductor...

The Fourth Pillar of Defense Acquisition: Cybersecurity

January 10, 2019 | John Vaughan, Zentech Manufacturing, Inc.

All PCB fabricators and electronics manufacturing service (EMS) providers providing electronics products to the defense sector need to immediately heighten awareness and proactively address cybersecurity if they desire to continue...