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2018 innovation awards and new board of directors

IPC – Association Connecting Electronics Industries, announces the winners of the IPC Apex Expo 2018 Innovation Awards, a celebration of the innovators and forward thinkers who are changing the technological landscape of the electronics industry. The Board of Directors of the association also presented five candidates for election at the annual meeting, held in conjunction with the expo.

Thirty-four products and services were submitted by 32 exhibiting companies and were reviewed, rated, and scored by a panel of industry experts who provided a numerical value based on the following criteria: How is this product innovative? How is this product changing the manufacturing industry? What value will customers experience with this new product? The IPC Apex Expo Best of Innovation Awards were presented to the following companies:

  • DfR Solutions were awarded for their temperature-based FEA with Sherlock Automated Design Analysis Software, the first‐of‐its‐kind automated design analysis software tool for analyzing, grading, and certifying the expected reliability of products at the circuit card assembly level.
  • The award also goes to JBC Tools for JBC Net, a pioneering software system that manages and optimizes the hand soldering process, standardizes parameters and controls operator performance.
  • Metcal has earned the award for its connection validation robotic soldering system. Robotic soldering is becoming more commonplace as manufacturers look to reduce risk and increase productivity. The company’s CV robotic soldering system addresses these needs by combining its patented CV technology and a new smart interface system.
  • Orbotech, Inc. has earned the award for its Ultra Dimension, an Automated Optical Inspection series for advanced PCB manufacturing processes — the first AOI solution to integrate four leading solutions into a single system: pattern inspection, laser via inspection, remote multi‐image verification and 2D metrology.

“The IPC Apex Expo Innovation Awards allow us to celebrate the innovators and forward thinkers who are changing the technological landscape of the electronics industry,” said John Mitchell, IPC president and CEO. “The product and service submissions were certainly innovative and the companies did an exceptional job in identifying their product’s unique value in the industry. The innovative submissions directly indicate the strength of the electronics industry and its ability to respond to new challenges resulting from emerging technologies,” Mitchell added. Members of the award review board include: Dale Lee, Plexus Corporation; Todd MacFadden, Bose Corporation; Dave Geiger, Flextronics International; Don Dupriest, Lockheed Martin Missiles & Fire Control; Jeff Timms, ASM Assembly Systems; and Rick Lies, Chemcut Corporation.

The Nominating and Governance Committee of the IPC Board of Directors elected five candidates. Three of them were elected as Board officers and will serve two-year terms. This included, Board Chair – Mikel Williams, CEO and Board Chair, Targus Inc.; Vice Chair – Shane Whiteside, President and CEO, Summit Interconnect; Secretary/Treasurer – Bob Neves, Chair and Chief Technology Officer, Microtek Laboratories. Two were elected as new Board members and will serve a four-year term. The newly elected Board members are Rick Bromm, President, Altex Inc.; and Jay Hill, Chief Operating Officer, Imaging, GE Healthcare.

„IPC is privileged to have these directors and officers added to our current slate of Board members. All are active contributors to IPC initiatives and we look forward to their continued contributions to advancing IPC and industry,“ said John Mitchell. In addition to holding Board elections, the association honored outgoing Board Chair, Joe O’Neil, CEO, Power Design Services. O’Neil will serve as the Immediate Past Chair on the Board of Directors Executive Committee for a two-year term. Out-going Board Member, Marc Peo, was also honored for his nearly 10 years of service on the Board of Directors.

www.ipcapexexpo.org

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