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Matric Group: Jul 30, 2020
You buy your electronic components, your machines are up and running, customers are happy, your workers are happy -- everything is good. Invoice paid, accounts receivable piling up. Paradise.
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Matric Group: Jul 16, 2020
When turned on, electrical equipment generates sparks. Some equipment generates heat that can lead to ignition, while electric arcing occurs between...
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Matric Group: Jul 10, 2020
Plastic waste may snag all of the headlines, but it's not the only type of waste overwhelming landfills and contaminating soil and water.
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Matric Group: Jul 06, 2020
It seems simple enough. If you’re a manufacturer who uses electronic components to build your products for American or international markets, you...
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Matric Group: May 20, 2020
When you’re looking for a PCB engineering services provider, there are, of course, multiple things to consider. “Will they be able to meet my...
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Matric Group: May 13, 2020
Electronics manufacture and testing are like squabbling siblings. PCB testing is a necessary expense that, when done correctly, prevents much larger...
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Matric Group: May 12, 2020
Electronic devices are the sum of their parts, including the box in which you house them.
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Matric Group: Mar 31, 2020
As you know painfully well, the coronavirus is causing growing demand for medical ventilators and other "life-sustaining" devices. As hospital visits...
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Matric Group: Mar 26, 2020
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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Matric Group: Mar 23, 2020
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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Matric Group: Mar 19, 2020
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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Matric Group: Feb 21, 2020
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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Matric Group: Dec 05, 2019
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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Matric Group: Nov 05, 2019
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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Matric Group: Oct 25, 2019
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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Matric Group: Oct 02, 2019
Modern electronics are evolving so rapidly that new becomes old in just a few years -- or less, if you’re an iPhone superfan. In fact, the average...
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One of the biggest concerns of electronic manufacturing is the reliability of the components being used. Counterfeit electronic components have long...
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Matric Group: Sep 13, 2019
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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Matric Group: Jul 25, 2019
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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Matric Group: Jul 22, 2019
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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Matric Group: May 16, 2019
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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Matric Group: May 14, 2019
Two things are fairly certain about the current electronic component shortage: It’ll end, and it’ll someday return.
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Matric Group: Apr 18, 2019
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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Matric Group: Mar 27, 2019
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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Matric Group: Feb 27, 2019
If there's anything certain in the U.S.-China tariffs staredown, it's uncertainty.
