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- Sep
- 2021
WBAN Steps Into PCB Microelectronics Assembly
A new miniature wireless network is stepping out of academic journals, into micro-miniature medical device applications, and subsequently onto the PCB microelectronics assembly floor. It’s called WBAN, which stands for wireless body area network. Medical OEMs and their design engineers have been anticipating such a development to help launch and expand remote tele-health patient monitoring […]
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- Aug
- 2021
Photonics Comes to PCB Microelectronics Assembly
Photonics has been around for many years. Today, that technology is beginning to make its presence known in PCB microelectronics assembly and in a variety of new applications. But we need to step back a bit and revisit reasons why photonics is so vital to meet today’s demands for increasingly higher speeds in advanced systems. […]
Continue Reading...OEMs launching micro-miniature products and relying on PCB microelectronics assembly and manufacturing to help produce those products may find themselves in a quandary. Let’s think about this. The industry standard for accuracy right now for placement of MEMS devices, sensors, biosensors, or other kinds of pressure sensors is five-micron placement accuracy on a very small […]
Continue Reading...Today, everything is shrinking and getting smaller, as I have written about in earlier columns. Now, a new player is coming in to help make PCB real estate more available on small flex and flex-rigid circuits undergoing microelectronics assembly. Continue Reading at IConnect007
Continue Reading...There is a good chance that all PCB microelectronics assembly and manufacturing processes are not created equal. Currently, that can be a major issue for medical OEMs who are now in the midst of developing or producing their newly advanced miniature medical products. Continue Ready at IConnect007
Continue Reading...In an earlier column, I discussed the prospect of onshoring PCB microelectronics assembly, rather than offshoring, especially for today’s and tomorrow’s advanced miniaturized medical devices. In that discussion, I detailed a comparison between traditional SMT and microelectronics manufacturing and assembly, and pointed out how much easier it is to bring miniaturized OEM devices, especially medical […]
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- Mar
- 2021
Onshoring for PCB Microelectronics Production?
In many instances, OEMs fail to realize that some of their PCB assembly and manufacturing production going offshore can easily be brought back to the United States, saving them time, money, and best of all, keeping their IP intact and protected. Certainly, the lion’s share of PCB SMT production continues to be found at offshore […]
Continue Reading...Our country has welcomed a new administration in Washington D.C. Again, as in previous administrations, a major part of the new president’s agenda is to bring back to the U.S. manufacturing that has long been handed over to overseas giants. Continue Reading at IConnect007
Continue Reading...The outlook appears promising in 2021 for electronics OEMs to bring some or most of their manufacturing back to the U.S. In particular, medical electronics OEMs may be able to move forward with their prototypes into pilot, medium, and high runs right here on American soil. And it may be sooner than later due in […]
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With COVID-19 continuing to rage across the United States and the world, hospitals and medical centers are relying on their medical electronics equipment, including ventilators, to help improve COVID-19 patients’ health. EMS providers, contract manufacturers (CMs), and printed circuit board (PCB) fabricators are the strongest link in the supply chain critical for building medical electronics […]
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