How to Avoid a Weld Line in your Plastic Production

After analyzing the Short Shot, the Sink Marks, the Flashing and Bubbles and the Bulges and Vacuum Vesicles issues, we are continuing our discussion on some of the problems you can encounter...

One Picture to Understand the Structure of an Injection Mold

Injection molding is a kind of processing method used in batch production of some complicated parts. The working principle is that a material is heated to its melting point and then forced through...

A Quick Primer on SMT Solder Paste

Soldering in an automated surface mount technology (SMT) machine isn't the same as hand soldering. There is a process that's used to make all of the components connect to the correct layers and...

How to Avoid Bulges and Vacuum Vesicles in Your Plastic Production

After analyzing the Short Shot, the Sink Marks, the Flashing and Bubbles issues. We decided to come back to some other  problems you can encounter during your injection molding plastic production....

Proper Handling of Humidity Sensitive Components (MSL 3)

Components are an important component of electronic products. The quality of electronic components has a direct impact on the reliability of a final product.  The handling of certain types of...

How to Avoid Flashing and Bubbles in your Plastic Production

After analyzing the short shot the sink marks issues, we've decided to come back to some other issues you can encounter during your injection molding plastic production: Flashing and Bubbles.

If...

How much harder is developing a hardware product vs a software product?

In the startup scene, a lot of focus is put on software businesses and the stellar growth they are capable of producing. While there can be some similarities in the business models, there are a...

Counterfeiting, recycling and secondary components sourcing

The good, the bad and the ugly of global component sourcing

The topic of component sourcing in our overall supply chain has been front and center for us recently. Those of you that have ever...

How To Make a PCBA Testing Tool

How To Avoid Sink Marks In Your Plastic Production

After analyzing the short shot issue, We decided to come back to another problem you can encounter during your injection molding plastic production: the Sink Mark.

"Why do You Need to Know my Target Price?"

“Why do you want to know my target price?” It's very common for people to us this question when they purchase something or want to get a quote. They might think "I just want to know your sales...

Future Trends: The Data Driven World

Data.  Big Data.  Deep Learning.  Artificial Intelligence.  No matter where you believe the future of technology is headed, the one thing for certain is the driver of all technology is simply…...

How To Avoid Short Shot In Your Plastic Production

Creating plastic casing using the injection molding process is more and more common during the development of a new product. However, a lot of quality issues might appear during the production...

Industrial IoT Savings: Human Lives

Driverless Future?  Not so Fast!

Amongst all of the small businesses, innovators, and Makers, I was on assignment to find Industrial IoT trends at the CES 2018 earlier this year.  Large...

Hardware As A Service is the best user-case for Industrial IOT application

Industrial IOT is the IOT applications/products for Business/Industry
. Before we talk about why HAAS is the best user-case for I-IOT, we need to understand what is the best value the company can...

How to Manage The Risks of Starting a New Hardware Project

Turning a new hardware idea into a business is an extremely challenging process that involves a ton of issues such as creating an efficient DFM (Design For Manufacture), finding EE (Electronic...