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PEACHTREE CITY, GA – MARCH 26, 2025 – CIRCUITS ASSEMBLY today announced the last call for registration for its annual Service Excellence Awards (SEAs) for EMS providers and electronics assembly equipment, material, service, and software suppliers.
Registration for the industry-leading recognition program closes March 31.
Now in its 33rd year, the SEAs honor companies for excelling in the critical area of customer service, permitting participants to benchmark customer service against their peers. It is the only industry awards program that uses direct customer feedback to determine best-in-class.
Customers are surveyed to determine their satisfaction with a participating company in various categories, including dependability/timely delivery; ease of use; manufacturing quality; responsiveness to requests and changes; technology; value for the price; and flexibility/ease of doing business. For each EMS category, the overall best-in-show winner is selected.
All customer responses and ratings are tabulated and provided in a confidential report for the participating company.
Participants report using the data to improve their customer response and comply with various quality audits such as ISO 9001 and AS9100.
“Datest offers testing, engineering, analytical, and other value-added services, all geared to speed, flexibility, and results. We need a mechanism for obtaining meaningful feedback from customers on a regular basis. We also share that feedback with our AS9100 auditor. The CIRCUITS ASSEMBLY Service Excellence Awards are ideal for capturing those honest reactions that make us a better company,” said Robert Boguski, president, Datest (2024 winner, Test Laboratories).
About the Awards
The SEAs recognize four categories of EMS providers based on revenues (under $20 million; $20 million to $100 million; $101 million to $500 million, and over $500 million).
Equipment, material or software supplier awards will be presented in each of the following categories: component storage systems; automation and handling equipment; cleaning processing or materials; device programming equipment; dispensing; pick-and-place; repair and rework; screen printing; test and inspection; materials (solder, encapsulants and adhesives); soldering equipment; automation/manufacturing software (not ERP/MRP); and supply-chain/ERP/MRP software.
Non-manufacturing service providers will be honored in the following categories: test laboratories; recycling, cleaning or other non-manufacturing process providers; and design service bureaus. Reps or agents and/or distributors will also be honored.
CIRCUITS ASSEMBLY will honor winners in person at SMTA International in October 2025 at the Rosemont Convention Center in Rosemont, IL. Participants will receive their report as an Excel file after the show.
For more information, visit https://circuitsassembly.com/ca/editorial/service-excellence-award.html.
To register, visit https://na.eventscloud.com/2025sea.
PEACHTREE CITY, GA – MARCH 20, 2025 – Registrants for the PCB East exhibition this April will gain access to five free technical sessions (plus a keynote presentation) ranging from printed circuit design to fabrication and assembly, the Printed Circuit Engineering Association (PCEA) announced today.
The free sessions take place on April 30 at the Boxboro Regency Hotel and Conference Center in Boxborough, MA, and cover topics about AI and PCB design, flex design, simulation, UHDI, and more.
“Free Wednesday” starts with a session on “AI and Other Upcoming Changes in PCB Design,” by Matthew Leary, founder and president of Newgrange Design.
After Leary’s presentation, Stephen Chavez, senior product marketing manager of Siemens and PCEA chairman, will speak about “Exploring the World of Ultra-High-Density Interconnect (UHDI) PCB Design.”
The morning sessions will conclude with the keynote presentation before lunch on the exhibit floor, which is free to all show registrants.
Free sessions resume in the afternoon with three sessions:
Following the free sessions is a reception on the exhibition floor sponsored by Cofactr and EMA Design Automation, and a PCB design community meetup to end the day.
Anyone who registers at pcbeast.com for the exhibition and free sessions by April 29 will receive free admission. Day of show registration for the exhibition and free sessions is $25.
PRINTED CIRCUIT DESIGN & FAB and CIRCUITS ASSEMBLY magazines are media partners for the event.
For more information about PCB East, visit pcbeast.com or contact Conference Director Mike Buetow at 617-327-4702; mike@pcea.net.
PEACHTREE CITY, GA – March 13, 2025 – The discounted price for the PCB East 2025 technical conference ends March 29, conference organizers said today. From March 30 through April 28, registrants will pay the advanced conference price, which is $100 more than the “early bird” rate, the Printed Circuit Engineering Association (PCEA) added.
The technical program for PCB East 2025 features more than 75 hours of in-depth electronics engineering training from leading experts such as Rick Hartley, Susy Webb, Daniel Beeker, Tomas Chester, Karen Burnham and Zachariah Peterson.
It will be held April 29 to May 2 at the Boxboro Regency Hotel and Conference Center in Boxborough, MA. It features classes for every level of experience, from novice to expert.
The scope of classes ranges from the basics of design engineering, documentation, libraries and circuit grounding to more advanced fare such as RF and mixed signal design, DDR5 routing, board stackups, simulation, controlling EMI, and power delivery system design.
More than half the presentations are new to the conference, including ones on maximizing routing channels, successful design release, differential pair design for 112 Gbps and faster systems, EMI shielding, flex design, UHDI design, controlling for tin whiskers, and AI and other upcoming changes in PCB design.
“PCB East is the best technical conference on the East Coast for PCB designers, design engineers, fabricators and assemblers,” said Mike Buetow, president, PCEA. “There’s something for everyone, no matter their background or length of industry experience.”
Registration for the technical conference and the exhibition is open at pcbeast.com.
An exhibition featuring leading suppliers to the electronics design, manufacturing and assembly industry will be held April 30.
PRINTED CIRCUIT DESIGN & FAB and CIRCUITS ASSEMBLY magazines are media partners for the event.
PEACHTREE CITY, GA – MARCH 10, 2025 – CIRCUITS ASSEMBLY today announced the 2025 New Product Introduction (NPI) Award winners for electronics assembly equipment, materials and software.
The 18th annual NPI Awards recognize leading new products during the past 12 months. An independent panel of practicing industry engineers selected the recipients.
The winners are:
“Judges this year praised the winners for improvements in versatility and speed,” said Mike Buetow, president of PCEA, in announcing the winners. “They were notably impressed with equipment that added functionality without increased footprint, and materials that required very little process change.”
PEACHTREE CITY, GA – March 5, 2025 – Registrants for PCB Detroit this June will gain access to several technical sessions and a tabletop exhibition, the Printed Circuit Engineering Association (PCEA) announced today.
The sessions take place on June 2-3 on the campus of Wayne State University in Detroit, MI, and cover topics ranging from controlling noise, using AI in hardware and PCB design, flex and rigid-flex materials and DfM, HDI via design, and PCB cost drivers, among others.
Conference sessions include:
PCB Detroit will also feature a tabletop exhibition on June 2 with fourteen companies including: A2Z Electronics LLC, ADCO Circuits, AllSpice.io, ASC Sunstone Circuits, BarTron Inc., Cofactr, DirectPCB, DownStream Technologies, Electronic Interconnect, K&F Electronics, Polyonics, RBB, Summit Interconnect, and Zuken USA.
A free reception on June 2 and special designers meetup (registration required) on June 3 will be held after classes end those days.
“PCB Detroit is the only place the electronics industry can see Rick Hartley, Susy Webb, Dan Beeker and Steph Chavez together at the same time in the Midwest,” said Mike Buetow, president of the Printed Circuit Engineering Association. “And the opportunities not just to learn but to network with fellow designers and engineers should not be missed.”
Registration for the two-day technical conference and the tabletop exhibition takes place at events.american-tradeshow.com/pcbdetroit/begin. Conference registration is required for both the conference and table top exhibition. Plus, lunch will be provided to registrants.
Wayne State University is Michigan’s third-largest university, and a licensee of the PCEA Training Certified Printed Circuit Designer curriculum.
For more information about PCB Detroit, visit pcea.net/pcb-detroit or contact pcbdetroit@pcea.net.
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