Quality benchmark study for electronics assembly 13th July 2018

President Trump has escalated the looming trade dispute with China. On 10th June he announced further import tariffs of ten percent on over 6,000 products, leading some pundits to suggest that an all-out trade war is all but inevitable. In this article Adam Fletcher, Chairman of the Electronic Components Supply Networks (ecsn) provides an insight into the current imposition of ‘tit-for-tat’ tariffs and examines the impact they may have on electronic components markets.

It has been announced that IPC's Study of Quality Benchmarks for Electronics Assembly 2018 is now available. The global study provides benchmarking data to electronics assembly companies interested in comparing their quality measurements to those of the industry worldwide.

Components Bureau has been appointed as the sole UK distributor for Bivocom, a provider of industrial wireless transmission terminals for IoT and M2M applications. Bivocom manufactures high quality NB-IOT, 4G/3G/2G industrial wireless modems, DTU, Gateway, Router and Android IPC, which are widely used within smart grid, smart city, oil and gas, irrigation, intelligent transportation, kiosk and vending, mining, agricultural monitoring and industrial automation applications.

This weekend in Russia either France or Croatia takes home the gold in the 2018 World Cup. This means that the football superstars Ronaldo and Messi would now have time to travel to Hyrynsalmi, Finland for the Nokian Tyres Swamp Soccer World Championships. But how would the great athletes do in the swamp? Swamp soccer requires good physical condition and relentlessness, but the field is very unlike the sleek grass of the football stadiums.

Back by popular demand, and this year featuring a grand prize of $25,000, ‘Fog Tank’ will showcase leading innovators in fog technologies and applications as they take the stage with investors at Fog World Congress on 3rd October. 

  The main challenge that startups in London now face is the shortage of tech talent, which is what new research conducted by Studio Graphene found. The study found that one in three startups are suffering with staffing challenges which is holding back London tech companies.

It has been announced that Broadcom and CA Technologies, have entered into a definitive agreement under which Broadcom will acquire CA to build an infrastructure technology company. 

As part of a worldwide distribution agreement, Qoitech says Digi-Key Electronics will be offering Qoitech’s Premium software for use with its energy optimisation tool Otii. The Otii solution provides developers with the means to simplify power measurement of applications and devices, especially those targeting the IoT space and aiming for optimised, long battery life.