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    <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Easier software increases PCB CAM automation</title>
      <description>UCAM Version 8.2.1 has enhanced tools to increase PCB CAM automation, make the software easier and more comfortable to use, and improve shop-floor yields.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Mania Technologie Belgium</category>
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      <title>Electric drives replace pneumatics at steel plant</title>
      <description>One of the main benefits of replacing a pneumatic positioning system at a steel plant with electrical drives reliability, as the steelmaker said it does not have to keep adjusting them.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>ABB Automation Tech (Drives and Motors)</category>
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      <title>Laser scanning microscope checks inside wafers</title>
      <description>A confocal laser scanning microscope is designed for the non-destructive, high resolution observation of the interior of silicon wafers, IC chips, MEMS and other devices.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Olympus Industrial</category>
      <link>http://www.manufacturingtalk.com/news/olm/olm111.html</link>
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      <title>Wedge bonder claimed to be fastest, most flexible</title>
      <description>For ribbon and wire bonding, Hesse and Knipps has introduced a high-speed, automatic wedge bonder offering flexibility for high-speed round wire and deep access ribbon and wire bonding.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Hesse &amp; Knipps</category>
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      <title>Pick and place machine is versatile, affordable</title>
      <description>Pick and place machine has high feeder capacity designed for high mix, low volume, production to offer a highly efficient, compact and affordable machine.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Contax</category>
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      <title>Probe tests PCBs without using fixtures</title>
      <description>Aeroflex's stand-alone Flying Probe System perform high-speed, high-accuracy fixtureless test using by combining the latest in flying probe hardware technology with innovative software.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Aeroflex</category>
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      <title>Bottle parts feeders and hoppers introduced</title>
      <description>Intercaps is now distributing the Italian SARG range of of bowl hoppers, and mechanical sorters for caps, plastics bottles, and trigger pump feeders in the UK and Ireland.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Intercaps</category>
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      <title>High speed train catenary wire continuously cast</title>
      <description>Rautomead provides continuous casting systems for copper-magnesium catenary wire, preferred for high-speed railroads, as it offers high tensile strength and good creep resistance.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Rautomead International</category>
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      <title>Robotic system handles hot meal pouches</title>
      <description>RTS Flexible Systems has developed a robotic system for handling hot ready meal pouches and which promises cost savings and higher throughput, improved quality and safety.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>RTS Flexible Systems</category>
      <link>http://www.manufacturingtalk.com/news/rts/rts113.html</link>
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      <title>Dipping paste avoids warpage in stacked devices</title>
      <description>Almit said that its LFM 48 N Dipping Paste is ideal for holding larger area devices that often exhibit warpage during peak reflow soldering temperatures.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Almit Technology</category>
      <link>http://www.manufacturingtalk.com/news/xay/xay100.html</link>
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      <title>Software reduces inspection programming by 40%</title>
      <description>Inspection system specialist Marantz Business Electronics said that its latest software offers a reduction in programming time of 40% for its automatic inspection equipment.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Marantz Europe</category>
      <link>http://www.manufacturingtalk.com/news/lmo/lmo100.html</link>
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      <title>Precision sourcing and measurement guide published</title>
      <description>Keithley Instruments has produced a free resource guide on CD that includes functional test, wafer level reliability, and production testing of electrical components.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Keithley Instruments</category>
      <link>http://www.manufacturingtalk.com/news/kei/kei157.html</link>
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      <title>Soldering stations have intelligent control</title>
      <description>Kaisertech has introduced 20W soldering iron bench-top units, which feature an integrating stand and an 'intelligent' control unit that reduces iron temperature when it is placed in the stand.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Kaisertech</category>
      <link>http://www.manufacturingtalk.com/news/kai/kai157.html</link>
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      <title>Silver continuous caster uses graphite crucible</title>
      <description>A horizontal continuous billet casting machine uses a graphite crucible furnace with its naturally oxygen-reducing characteristics to produce silver and silver alloy billets.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Rautomead International</category>
      <link>http://www.manufacturingtalk.com/news/rau/rau137.html</link>
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      <title>C-MAC upgrades solderability testing</title>
      <description>C-MAC has upgraded its UK-based testing expertise to meet the latest IEC 68, MIL-STD 883 and MIL-STD 202 test methods for electronics in military applications.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>C-Mac MicroTechnology</category>
      <link>http://www.manufacturingtalk.com/news/cmg/cmg104.html</link>
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