Multimedia Editor and Host Jennifer Pierce shares highlights from the ASSEMBLY Audible podcast.

Designing tiny heat-staked studs into plastic parts eliminates the need to clamp parts for adhesive bonding.

Strong security practices are needed to protect IP, prevent production delays, and ensure safety.

ARMAGH, PA—The fire that consumed the Roadster Factory's 48,000 square-foot warehouse burned for more than a dozen hours and required around 100 firefighters from 13 local fire departments.

Handling of the wafer carriers is performed by a six-axis clean room robot from Stäubli Robotics.

Torsional ultrasonic welding technology creates high-reliability connections for radiometer.

ALBUQUERQUE—Singapore-based Maxeon Solar Technologies Ltd. is investing more than $1 billion to build a new 3-gigawatt (GW) solar panel assembly plant here, its first expansion into the United States.

MALTA, NY—Lockheed Martin and GlobalFoundries (GF) are collaborating to advance U.S. semiconductor manufacturing and innovation and to increase the security, reliability and resiliency of domestic supply chains for national security systems. 

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is partnering with the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to provide $10 billion in funding through the Qualifying Advanced Energy Project Credit (48C). The notice released June 5 allocates up to $4 billion to accelerate domestic clean energy manufacturing and ensure no community is left behind in the transition to clean energy technologies.   

Delta Systems uses more than 20 Epson robots for pick and place, assembly, dispensing and soldering operations.