Manufacturing

Fire door automation company Fireco has consolidated its PCB manufacturing with Guernsey-based Offshore Electronics (right). “I’ve worked with many CEMs throughout my career, but the team at Offshore have consistently outperformed their competitors,” said Fireco purchasing manager Mark Challacombe. “I was unable to appoint the company in a previous role and really noticed the difference, so it made sense to ...

Winner Custom Interconnect Highly commended: Harwin   Custom Interconnect has created “the most advanced ‘Net Zero’ power PCBA and power module assembly facility” in the UK. It has a total area of 80,000sq ft. It has taken part in the Advanced Propulsion Centre @FutureBEV project, with automotive manufacturer BMW, to develop a new UK supply chain for subcomponents and system ...

Family company Dean Group is celebrating its 50th years of casting metal parts in the Manchester area. Specialising in lost-wax, investment and die casting, as well as forging, the company makes parts for industries including: electronics, electric vehicles, defence, oil and gas, railways and marine. “Over the last 50 years, the company has developed innovative solutions to maintain its position ...

Trumpf has revealed two ultra-short pulsed lasers for electronics manufacturing. “Ultrashort pulsed lasers see frequent use in electronics manufacturing, where they serve to produce printed circuit boards, displays and the like,” according to the company. There are two versions, one at 100W and he other at 200W The 100W laser (left) becomes the most powerful model in the company’s ‘TruMicro ...

Myenergi has created a domestic energy storage battery along the lines of Tesla’s Powerwall. Called Libbi, its top half (see photo) contains a 3.68kW inverter while on the bottom is a 5.1kWh battery, to which three further batteries can be added for up to a total of 20.4kWh. With more than 5.1kWh, the inverter is up-graded to 5kW. The controlled ...

Offshore Electronics has added a Yamaha Z:Lex YSM20R modular pick and place machine to its Guernsey manufacturing. “Fastest in its class at 95,000 component placements per hour, the YSM20R will allow the company to ship a greater number of boards to its OEMs each day,” according to the company. “Over the course of a month, this investment will effectively double ...

Filtronic has opened a design centre in Manchester, focused on developing mmWave technology for satellite communications, as well as hired several engineers for its design and its process engineering teams. “Establishing the new centre for satellite communication design has enabled us to expand our physical footprint across three UK locations: Sedgefield, Leeds and now Manchester, and has assisted us in ...

TSMC is planning its 1nm fab which will be in the Longtan Science Park near Taoyuan City which is operated by the Hsinchu Science Park, reports the Commercial Times. TSMC’s delayed 3nm chips are due to start volume production in Q4. An upgraded process, 3NE, starts in H2 2023. This will be TSMC’s last finfet node before moving to Gate ...

Digi-Key Electronics is launching Season 2 of its “Factory Tomorrow” video series, focused on automation and control in manufacturing facilities. Sponsored by Siemens, Schneider Electric and Phoenix Contact, the next three-episode series takes a closer look at the driving forces behind Industry 4.0. Content includes interviews with experts in the field about how AI, connectivity and edge computing are shaping ...

Warrington-based quantum dot maker Quantum Science has become part of a government-funded Knowledge Transfer Partnership with the University of Glasgow, intended to improve infra-red sensor fabrication, testing and manufacturing. The company makes Pb-inclusive and Pb-free quantum-dots that can be used in infra-red sensors, with sensitivity tuneable across 800nm to 2.4μm. They are said to have excellent stability in air, in ...