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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Electronics Manufacturing"”.
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Outsourcing in high volume electronics manufacturing
Outsourcing and subcontracting of manufacturing is growing at an incredible pace. According to a November 1998 Dataquest survey, the Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) industry is forecast to grow at a compound annual rate of over 26%. The largest and best known of the EMS providers, …
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Optimizing product testing in the electronics manufacturing industry
… to optimize the overall testing times within the electronics manufacturing industry. By analyzing each test regime within the manufacturing sequence individually, with the goal of overall test time reduction, better test system optimization may occur. Specifically, within Burn In testing it was …
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Addressing process variation in aerosol jet printing and accelerating conformal electronics manufacturing
Aerosol jet printing (AJP) is an additive manufacturing technique used for printing electronics. Capable of printing features on the order of 10-100 μm, AJP excels at patterning on surfaces with 3D topography, such as 3D structures and microelectronics packages, due to its large nozzle-to-surface …
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Production line design and system analysis for new product introduction in electronics manufacturing
… on a one piece flow layout design for a factory manufacturing AC motor control drives. The requirement was to create a layout for a new product while integrating existing manufacturing lines. Analytical methods and simulation techniques were used to validate the performance of the proposed line. …
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Ultrasonic inspection methods for defect detection and process control in roll-to-roll flexible electronics manufacturing
Roll-to-roll flexible electronics manufacturing technologies require new sensing and measurement capabilities for defect detection and process control. This body of work investigates the use of ultrasound, specifically Lamb and longitudinal waves, as a sensing modality and measurement technique for …
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The electronics manufacturing sector of Hong Kong and Taiwan : a firm level comparision and its policy implications
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1997.
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Ensemble Modelling of in situ Feature Variables for Printed Electronics Manufacturing with in situ Process Control Potential
… Printing (AJP) is a direct-write based additive manufacturing process that is capable of printing electronics with fine features and various materials. It eliminates the complex masking process in traditional semiconductor manufacturing, thus enables flexible electronics design and reduces …
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THE ROLE OF SMALL FIRMS IN EMPLOYMENT AND INNOVATION GENERATION, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE ELECTRONICS MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY OF SOUTH WEST ENGLAND
… and an empirical study of small firms in the electronics manufacturing industry of South West England. The work focuses initially on the scale of the small firm sector in terms of employment and on the ability of small firms to generate new jobs. Theoretical perspectives on the factors …
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Accelerating time-to-market in the global electronics industry
In today's electronics industry, fast time-to-market (TTM) and time-to-profit (TTP) is key to customer satisfaction and firm competitiveness. Optimizing the product development and new product introduction (NPI) process is particularly critical for products in dynamic market segments such as …
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Worker rights protection in Mexico's Silicon Valley : confronting low-road labor practices in high-tech manufacturing through antagonistic collaboration
… of globalization and the ensuing outsourcing of manufacturing activities to low-income countries, has been a growing interest from scholars regarding the protection of labor rights and the means for improving labor conditions in the developing world. In the past half-decade, scholars have paid …
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Using cold spray to package electronic implants
Due to improvements in electronics manufacturing, electronic implants keep decreasing in size and are moving towards integrated-circuit (IC) based designs. As implant electronics become significantly smaller with the use of ICs, traditional implant packaging become a limiting factor on implant …
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Guidelines for the successful implementation of concurrent engineering practices in the South African electronics industry
… engineering environment necessary for developing electronics products in the 1990s, and beyond. The broad scope of the research has made it possible to derive guidelines for the successful implementation of concurrent engineering in the South African electronics manufacturing industry. For a long …
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An effective approach to choosing project, program and portfolio management software at a large and geographically diverse company
… large and geographically diverse company in the Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) industry, Voltaform. Though there are many ways to approach this task, significant thought should go into which one is chosen for each particular company and its situation. This document addresses the …
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Thermoreflectance for Contactless Sintering Characterization: From Metal Nanoparticles to Stretchable Conductors
… that is compatible with high-throughput printed electronics manufacturing, unlike traditional electrical resistance measurements. The thermal conductivity measured from FDTR agrees well with thermal conductivity calculated using Wiedemann-Franz law from electrical conductivity measurements. …
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Where India fits within Flextronics global supply chain
This project focuses on Flextronics International manufacturing strategy regarding its global supply chain design, and its export strategy from India. It also focuses on the application of the Flextronics case to the question of India's role in global electronics manufacturing. Following China's …
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Quantifying the role of the electronics industry in managing conflict minerals using printers
The electronics manufacturing industry has been experiencing a fast-changing landscape with recent legislations targeting the supply chains for the 3TG minerals: tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold mined from the Democratic Republic of Congo. These minerals exhibit unique properties that are crucial …
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Incorporating concurrent engineering and design economics in a decision support system
… To accomplish the objective of this research, electronics manufacturing is used as an application setting. The design of printed circuit board assemblies is the domain for establishing a structural framework for incorporating concurrent engineering and activity-based cost estimation.
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The complete bill of materials : a study in collaborative manufacturing
The effects of the bill of material on outsourced manufacturing environment are studied by gathering information on costs to implement a new bill of materials (BOM) transfer process, the potential gains to maintaining a complete bill of material versus the partial or complete embedding of data, and …
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Silence of the lamb waves
Roll-to-Roll (R2R) manufacturing has seen great interest in the recent decade due to the proliferation of personalized and wearable devices for monitoring a variety of biometrics. Given the sensitive nature of the potential applications of these sensors, the throughput of manufacturing due to …
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Supply chain management for low-volume, high-variation manufacturing
… thesis introduces a low-volume, high variation manufacturing company that is experiencing issues managing its supply chain. Issues include lack of process ownership, poor requirements flow down to vendors, and an ineffective supplier selection process. This example uses a systematic approach for …
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