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May & Scofield manufacturers electronic controls and systems, and needed to fulfill a contract for automotive flex circuits which forbade hand soldering. It turned to capital equipment distributor Altus, which recommended Promation’s Quick 9434 four-axis soldering robot which for consistency, according to Altus, has closed-loop temperature control up to 500°C and a toothed gear solder wire feeder that also perforates the ...

Renesas Electronics is part of a consortium building an OSAT (outsourced semiconductor assembly and test) facility at Sanand near Ahmedabad in Gujarat India. It will only hold around 6.8% of the equity capital, with the bulk going to Mumbai engineering conglomerate CG Power and Industrial Solutions. Thailand OSAT provider Stars Microelectronics will hold 0.9%. “CG’s entry into the semiconductor manufacturing ...

Delta Electronics has signed a technology transfer and licensing collaboration agreement with Ceres Power, paying ~£43m to access Ceres’ hydrogen stack technology for solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) and solid oxide electrolysis cells (SOECs). “Through this partnership, Delta expects to integrate Ceres’ energy stack technology with its own power electronics and thermal management technologies to develop SOFC and SOEC systems ...

Plastic and fibre is a well known combination for making strong lightweight specialist enclosures, but can a little bit of fibre reinforcement usefully improve mass-produced injection moulded parts? That is the question a German consortium asked itself late in 2021, and its interim results are out. The short answer is: yes, it can be done technically, and pilot manufacture has ...

Molex has opened a production campus in Katowice, Poland. “The facility’s initial 23,000m2 manufacturing space will serve as a strategic central location to facilitate delivery of medical devices for Phillips-Medisize, [owned by Molex], as well as electric vehicle and electrification solutions,” according to Molex, which claims to have invested $110m there so far. “Future expansion of up to 85,000m2 is ...

Tilbury based electric delivery lorry maker Tevva plans to merge with Arizona contract EV manufacturer ElectraMeccanica. “Tevva recently commenced deliveries of its 7.5 tonne battery-electric truck to commercial fleet customers focused on urban delivery – a critical and high-growth segment of the overall commercial truck market for delivery-dependent urban areas,” explained the companies in a statement. “Tevva’s existing 110,000sq-foot EV ...

German factory automation company Sick has introduced 3d inspection cameras that can measure down to 800nm. Called Ruler3002, 3004, 3010, the cameras work with fields of view down to 26.6mm. “The addition of a high-powered blue [450nm] laser enables the three cameras to achieve the rapid exposure times necessary to capture the minutest three-dimensional details,” claimed the company. They “have ...

Lexium is a cobot from Schneider Electric, intended to work alongside humans without a cage or other exclusion. Cobots – collaborative robots – need to be inherently safe around people, and as such need to be lightweight, move at moderate speed, not be too strong and have no sharp edges. “Traditional industrial robotic systems must be designed into processes from ...

Delo has created a high-temperature adhesive for electric motor components. “HT2990 is designed for use in multiple processes, including magnet bonding and magnet stacking in electric motor manufacturing,” according to the company. This is a dual-cure adhesive: Heat is the main way that it is cured, but accessible parts of its can also be cured in 10s using light (400nm ...

To meet near-shoring requirements of European customers, Malaysian EMS (electronics manufacturing services) provider Escatec has established a production facility in Plovdiv Bulgaria. This is the company’s ninth production site globally, and adds to a site in the UK, two in the Czech Republic, one is Switzerland and four in Malaysia. It also has a design centre in Switzerland, and partnerships ...