The competitive advantage in PCB assembly is no longer defined by assembly process or equipment selection. It’s about creating a smart factory that can convert vast amounts of data into actionable and meaningful intelligence in real-time.
Printed circuit assemblers need an IoT ecosystem, the cornerstone of Industry 4.0. One of the key advantages of an IoT ecosystem is that it can take siloed information, analyze it, and optimize processes across a company’s systems. Aligning IT and OT is key to the Industry 4.0 transformation and to improving manufacturing processes and leads to higher production performance and lower costs. However, it requires effective governance and tools to adapt IT project management models for use in operations. Download the ebook to learn more.
The flyback topology is a versatile, widely used, switched-mode power-supply design with some interesting characteristics that brings performance and BOM advantages to many applications...
Stricter guidelines imposed by version 3 of the IEC standard for harmonic current emissions push designers to embrace power-factor-correction methodologies.
With the growing importance of power consumption in today's devices, dc-dc converters primarily strive for efficiency, with new technologies playing a role to achieve that goal...
