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Equipment can be bought; skilled people take years to build. That is why a production-grade SMT facility established at an engineering college in Tamil Nadu, India, is worth attention beyond its ca...

Two equipment categories are getting fresh attention from SMT factories: wave soldering for through-hole and mixed-technology boards, and laser marking for traceability. In October 2026, SASinno Am...

When a PCB assembly ends up inside a medical device, "good enough" inspection is not good enough. In September 2026, Promex Industries in Santa Clara, California, announced it had automated 100% in...

Through-hole components are not disappearing, and neither is the soldering equipment that joins them. In November 2026, Kurtz Ersa's VERSAFLOW FIVE selective soldering system won a 2026 Global Tech...

Strong orders are not automatically translating into strong profits across the PCB supply chain, and that is forcing a new focus on process efficiency. According to a November 7, 2026 report in Sec...

The AI supply chain just absorbed another blow that no amount of equipment capacity can fix quickly. In the early hours of November 4, 2026, an explosion and fire struck Panasonic's multilayer mate...

The PCB supply crunch has a materials problem underneath it, and the numbers are dramatic. According to an industry report published on November 4, 2026, copper-clad laminate (CCL) costs have risen...

The question mark over one of the world's largest SMT equipment businesses has been removed. On November 5, 2026, ASMPT announced that its board had completed a comprehensive review of strategic op...

Optical inspection cannot see what is hidden under a BGA - and AI server boards are packed with them. That is why inline 3D X-ray inspection (AXI) is moving from a specialist tool to a mainstream S...

Components on AI server boards are getting physically huge. ASMPT used October 2026 to introduce a new SOLO placement head built specifically for the large, heavy processor BGAs used in AI and high...

The long-term numbers behind the SMT industry are still pointing upward, even as day-to-day supply chains tighten. A market study released on October 15, 2026 by ResearchAndMarkets forecasts the gl...

Cleaning has quietly become one of the quality gates that separates reliable electronics from field failures. On October 30, 2026, Shenzhen SAM Electronic Equipment won a 2026 Mexico Technology Awa...