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5 Electronic Enclosure Design Guidelines
Electronic devices are the sum of their parts, including the box in which you house them.
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Electronic devices are the sum of their parts, including the box in which you house them.
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The products that your organization is preparing to develop call for printed circuit boards (PCBs) -- simple enough, right? Not exactly. Components...
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Tests for printed circuit boards (PCBs) come in many varieties based on cost, breadth, time, and other factors. There are many ways to test your PCB,...
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PCB (printed circuit board) costs are a concern for any electronics designers or manufacturers -- both the materials that go into PCBs and the...
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There’s no perfect playbook to establishing and maintaining major transportation projects like subways, bus systems, and other transit developments.
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Change management is usually a requirement in the electronics industry. This specifically relates to changes needed after the initial design of your...
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A tanker departed from Freeport LNG in September 2019 with the first export cargo produced at the Houston facility. The late-afternoon moment in...
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There’s a certain need for speed in manufacturing circuit boards -- the electronics industry demands it, and your end users demand it. But how quick...
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As electronics OEM engineers well know, the printed circuit board (PCB) is crucial to the proper operation of just about every electronics product...
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Prototyping is just as important to the electronics manufacturing process as designing, engineering, and testing. Ignore it at your own risk.
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NOTE: This article was updated on September 16, 2019 to reflect recent information regarding tariffs. Two days after Independence Day 2018, President...
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Electromechanical PCB box build assembly services are one of the most important offerings of electronics contract manufacturers. In addition to the...
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PCB contamination testing is not for every project, but it’s a lifesaver for some.
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There is no shortage of reasons to test a PCB assembly, and there is no shortage of ways to do it. Out of the many functional tests available, PCB...
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For those in the electronics manufacturing supply chain, RoHS compliance is a big deal. Hopefully you’ve treated it as such well in advance of the ...
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Solder is what makes the electrical connections work on your printed circuit board (PCB). Solderability, then, measures how well metal is wetted by...
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If you’re considering switching an existing electronic product design from through-hole technology to surface mount technology (SMT), you’ll want to...
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Two things are fairly certain about the current electronic component shortage: It’ll end, and it’ll someday return.
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International Traffic and Arms Regulation (ITAR) came about in 1976 because of a need to control the export of military equipment and related ...
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When introducing a new electronic product design, many OEMs don’t fully understand the differences between IPC classifications -- or understand them...
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If there's anything certain in the U.S.-China tariffs staredown, it's uncertainty.
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Box build assembly. Systems integration. Top level assembly.