Challenger Solutions gets AS9100 approval for military customers

Essex-based contract electronics manufacturer (CEM) Challenger Solutions has achieved AS9100 accreditation – the extension to ISO 9000 that adds aerospace quality management standards. “Everyone gets ISO 9000,” Challenger business development manager Richard Hancock told Electronics Weekly. “AS9100 means that  we can work on jobs to a better specification. You need it for anything that is ...

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UK firm supplies advanced laser production facility in China

Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology (OIPT),has announced that Sino-semic have selected its Cobra plasma etch systems for their manufacturing facilities in Taizhou City.   Sino-semic is a manufacturer of VCSELs for face recognition. The vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser, or VCSEL is a semiconductor laser diode which emit a perpendicular beam from the top surface, rather than the edge ...

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Vicor has BGA package option for 48V buck regulators

The PI354x-00-BGIZ is the latest addition by Vicor to its 48V Cool-Power ZVS buck regulator portfolio, offering a BGA package option to the existing PI354x-00-LGIZ LGA series.   The device’s ZVS topology is designed to enable 48V direct to point of load.  And step-down regulation from a higher voltage source will improve efficiency and reduce I2R ...

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Labcenter partners with SamacSys for PCB part creation

Labcenter Electronics has partnered with SamacSys to provide free PCB symbols, footprints and 3D models for its users, via the SamacSys CAD library content. SamacSys, which also powers the Electronics Weekly Component Search Engine, has been selected to provide high-quality CAD models for Labcenter’s Proteus design tools. Components can now be downloaded into Proteus without ...

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German distribution stable but uninspired

Stable but uninspired – this describes the German component distribution market during the second quarter 2018. Sales by companies registered with the Fachverband Bauelemente Distribution (FBDi e.V.) grew in the months April, May and June by 5% (compared with Q2/2017) to 949 million Euros. The order situation performed better, and with 1.04 billion Euros exceeded ...

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SEMI billings decline for second month in a row

July billings by manufacturers of semiconductor equipment were $2.36 billion which was  4.9% down on June’s $2.48 billion and 4.1% up on June 2017’s billings of $2.27 billion, reports SEMI. “Global billings declined for the second month in a row, indicative of customer push-outs,” says SEMI CEO Ajit Manocha,  “we expect the industry to weather ...

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Cree upgrades XLamp line

Cree has announced an extension to the XLamp XP-G3 LED product line optimised for connected lighting. It is designated the  XLamp XP-G3 S Line. With the XP-G3 S Line, Cree delivers high-power LED technology optimized for long-lifetime, high-power general lighting applications where sensors and the internet of things (IoT) are becoming common, such as commercial ...

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IR LED with 7mm spot diameter

TT Electronics of Woking  has introduced a compact, infrared LED emitter with a spot diameter of 7mm for super-reliable optical sensing and position encoder applications. With up to 10mW total radiated power at the maximum drive current of 100mA, and 2.25° angle of half intensity, the OP207CL couples optical flux extremely efficiently onto the receiving ...

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