Category: Electronics Manufacture
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PACE Zenith Award Winners 2015
PACE Zenith Awards The PACE Zenith Awards 2015 celebrate the process control and automation industry’s many and diverse successes. The PACE Zenith Awards bring together some of the biggest names in Process Control, Instrumentation and Automation to celebrate, recognise and award companies and individuals for their key contribution to Australian industry. The awards winners…
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Printed Circuit Board Assembly
Printed Circuit Board Assembly Also referred to as a PCA, the Printed Circuit Board Assembly follows on from Printed Circuit Board Manufacture. This is where the components are placed onto the PCB or Printed Circuit Board and the electrical connections formed. In this post I will focus on volume manufacturing techniques. We also make…
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Printed Circuit Board Manufacture
Printed Circuit Boards In our series on Electronics Design we have looked at the Electronics Design Process from Requirements Capture, Technology Selection, Component Selection, Schematic Capture and finally PCB Design of the Printed Circuit Board including PCB Layout. Now we have a design and the Electronics CAD files to make a Prototype. There are a number…
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PACE Zenith Awards 2015
PACE Zenith Awards 2015 We have only just heard. You probably already know that we are finalists for the Endeavour Awards 2015 this year with 3 of our projects. Today we got the news that we are finalists in four categories at the PACE Zenith Awards for 2015. I’m sure at least one of you…
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National Manufacturing Week 2015
National Manufacturing Week 2015 In a couple of weeks Australia celebrates National Manufacturing Week 2015. Successful Endeavours will be exhibiting there along with the South East Melbourne Manufacturers Alliance (SEMMA) as part of Austech. This year the convention runs in Melbourne at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre from Tuesday 26 May 2015…
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Fine Pitch PCB
Fine Pitch Printed Circuit Board This example is from a project coming to the end of the Proof of Concept phase. So we have done the Electronics Design and also completed the PCB Layout. I can’t tell you what it does, but you don’t really need to know in order to appreciate the technology. This…
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Endeavour Awards 2015 Finalists
Endeavour Awards 2015 As part of National Manufacturing Week, Manufacturing Monthly run the Endeavour Awards to celebrate Australian manufacturing success stories. Last year we were a finalist for the Technology Application of the Year. This year we are very excited to announce that we are finalists in two categories and in one of…
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Electronics Design: Schematic Capture
Schematic Capture Schematic Capture is the process of defining the logic connections between different components in an Electronic Circuit. At the end of the process you have a diagram or Schematic of the circuit. That’s a complicated way of saying that it shows the connections between the selected components. We use Altium Designer as our…
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Electronics Design: Component Selection
Component Selection We have worked our way through Requirements Capture and Technology Selection. After doing some initial design work and deciding on how the circuit will work, you have to find components that you can buy on a reasonable lead time and at a reasonable price. This depends a lot on the expected production volume…
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Manufacturers’ Monthly Endeavour Awards 2014 Winners Announced
Manufacturers’ Monthly Endeavour Awards 2014 Last night we attended the Manufacturers’ Monthly Endeavour Awards gala dinner at the Ivy Ballroom in Sydney as finalists in the Technology application of the Year category. We didn’t win this year but we also didn’t know what each of our competitors had submitted until the dinner. I was…