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Local manufacturers look forward to a brighter future
21 March 2018, Omnigo, SMTech, News, Manufacturing / Production Technology, Hardware & Services
Dataweek interviewed three South African electronics contract manufacturers to find out what they’ve been up to lately, and what their outlook is.

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Lessons learned from an ECM and the customer that sued them
21 March 2018, MyKay Tronics, Manufacturing / Production Technology, Hardware & Services
The plaintiff created a new technology that consisted of a sensor and a receiver, but lacked the ability to produce it. Enter the contract manufacturer, soon to be the defendant.

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Industry urged to submit waste management plans
21 February 2018, News
Bubele Nyiba, CEO of the ROSE Foundation, believes that although formalised plans will benefit the environment, a pivotal question is who will ultimately bear the cost for their implementation.

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Power designers are being challenged by spec changes
21 February 2018, Power Electronics / Power Management
A survey conducted by Vicor has revealed that mitigating the impact of inevitable changes to power system requirements is essential to ensure projects are on time and within budget.

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Series and parallel battery configurations
21 February 2018, Uniross Batteries, Power Electronics / Power Management
Batteries achieve the desired operating voltage by connecting several cells in series; each cell adds its voltage potential to arrive at the total terminal voltage. Parallel connection attains higher ...

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Don’t be fooled by substandard, cheap antennas
31 January 2018, Inteto Connect , News, Telecoms, Datacoms, Wireless, IoT
Poynting has issued a public service announcement warning that it is seeing a large number of sub-standard antennas being sold to the public.

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LTE is key to the future of M2M communication
31 January 2018, RF Design, Telecoms, Datacoms, Wireless, IoT
While LTE is mostly used in phones today, soon it may be the primary technology millions of cars use to connect to the cloud – and each other.

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What are my IoT data transport options?
15 November 2017, Otto Wireless Solutions, Telecoms, Datacoms, Wireless, IoT
There are three main factors to consider when deploying a wireless IoT sensor or controller: power, range (network coverage) and speed.

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Addressing safety concerns with Li-ion batteries
15 November 2017, Uniross Batteries, Power Electronics / Power Management
Lithium-ion is safe but with millions of consumers using batteries, failures are bound to happen.

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Production cycle of a sealed lead-acid battery
15 November 2017, Forbatt SA, Power Electronics / Power Management
It’s easy when commissioning or simply plugging a battery into the device it is destined for, to overlook all the steps that went into its production. Often the minerals that are used in making a battery ...

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It’s not about the board
15 November 2017, Computer/Embedded Technology, Design Automation
It might sound controversial, but choosing the best board for a project shouldn’t start with a comparison of different boards and appraising the features and benefits. With such a wealth of development ...

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From the chairman’s desk: Q3 in South Africa
11 October 2017, News
Warren Muir, chairman of AREI, provides an update on how the local electronics sector is doing, and some of the Association’s latest happenings.

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Enabling intelligent energy supply via the smart grid
11 October 2017, EBV Electrolink, Surveillance, Power Electronics / Power Management
As the worldwide energy supply model is experiencing a trend towards decentralised supply concepts, smart grids allow the challenges of climate change and liberalised electricity markets to be met.

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The importance of test structures for multilayer PCBs
11 October 2017, EDA Technologies, Manufacturing / Production Technology, Hardware & Services
As the number of layers in multilayer PCBs grow and the size of features become smaller and denser, the opportunities for a PCB to be built incorrectly grows exponentially. Traditional bare board PCB ...

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Laser soldering for ultrafine parts or high density mounting
11 October 2017, Manufacturing / Production Technology, Hardware & Services
Laser soldering is currently gaining attention as a new soldering method. However, as this is a new industrial technique compared to iron tip soldering, the heating principles differ, and it cannot simply ...

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Selecting test instrumentation for battery temperature profiling
11 October 2017, Concilium Technologies, Test & Measurement
Charge and discharge currents increase the temperature of batteries and temperature directly affects their lifespan and storage capacity. Batteries tend to be efficient and provide a normal life span ...

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Effort required to manage ICT e-waste
13 September 2017, Altron Arrow, News
Arrow Value Recovery Services specialises in reducing the environmental impact of e-waste by recycling ICT products through lifecycle programmes that recondition and return them to the business ICT stream.

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Op-amp balancing resistors are not a given
13 September 2017, Altron Arrow, Analogue, Mixed Signal, LSI
Analog Devices’ Harry Holt explains why balancing resistors are not always a given, the way they were in the days of the old 741 op-amp.

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Thermocouple signal conditioning challenges and solutions
13 September 2017, Tempe Technologies, Analogue, Mixed Signal, LSI
When measuring temperature, the thermocouple is one of the oldest and most widely used components. Especially useful in applications that require temperature measurements in hostile environments, such ...

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Ghana repurposes communications antenna for astronomy
16 August 2017, News
The 32 metre converted telecommunications antenna will be integrated into the African VLB Network in preparation for the second phase construction of the Square Kilometre Array.

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