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Appointments
4 February 2015
   Derek Bell has joined Surn Technologies in an account manager capacity. He brings with him a wealth of experience in electronics used in the automotive security industry.    EDA Technologies has hired ...

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Electronics news digest
4 February 2015
South Africa New South African distributor, IPD Electronics, has secured the rights to distribute the products of the EDAC Group in the country. EDAC’s product range includes RJ45 modular and magnetic ...

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Tellumat joint venture off to a grand start
EMP Handbook 2016
In August 2014, JSE-Listed and black-owned Grand Parade Investments (GPI) and Tellumat established a joint venture comprising stakes of 51% and 49%, respectively. Their new company – Grand Tellumat Manufacturing ...

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Reducing the huge volumes of e-waste is everybody’s responsibility
EMP Handbook 2015, Manufacturing / Production Technology, Hardware & Services
Keith Anderson, chairman of the e-Waste Association of South Africa, explains what is being done and what needs to be done better to deal with the waste generated by electronic equipment. He also explores the universal truth that, behind every problem, hides an opportunity.

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Think a PCB is a PCB is a PCB? Think again
EMP Handbook 2015, EDA Technologies, Manufacturing / Production Technology, Hardware & Services
EDA Technologies’ Nechan Naicker points out some fundamental considerations for designers to make when selecting printed circuit board materials and manufacturers, and why you cannot afford to think of PCBs as just another component in your designs.

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National Electronics Week SA
EMP Handbook 2015, Events
Durban will, for the first time ever, host National Electronics Week (NEW) this year, at Moses Mabhida Stadium on 20 May (both venue and date tentative). The exhibition, which has established itself as ...

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productronica getting a 40th anniversary facelift
EMP Handbook 2015
productronica 2015 may be a long time away but Messe München, the event’s organisers, had barely escorted visitors to last year’s electronica out the exit doors before spilling the beans on a shake-up ...

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Future focus at IPC APEX EXPO
EMP Handbook 2015
Changing technologies that are driving the electronics industry will take centre stage throughout the IPC APEX EXPO 2015 technical conference and professional development sessions, which will take place ...

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NEPCON has Asia covered
EMP Handbook 2015
Reed Exhibitions has grown NEPCON to become Asia’s leading exhibition brand for the electronics manufacturing sector, with a number of events scheduled for 2015. Although the coverage offered by these ...

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Theft prevention technology connects the dots
EMP Handbook 2015
If you didn’t already know this, I’m sorry to be the one to have to tell you: if you bought your car within the last two years, it’s probably contaminated. In fact, if it was sold new after 1 September ...

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The labour market: good, bad or both?
EMP Handbook 2015, Technews Publishing
Regardless of the level of technological automation that can be applied, people remain the most important element of almost every manufacturing process. In fact, while greater automation generally leads ...

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From the editor's desk: Power to the people, pretty please
EMP Handbook 2015, Technews Publishing
It seems to me that those with the least power are usually the most desperate to take every opportunity to exploit it. And so I sit now, of a summer evening, with no power at all thanks to Eskom. Typing ...

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ADEC is dead; long live ‘arei’
19 November 2014
While the organisation’s prime mandate remains unchanged, it has begun the process of drawing South African electronics manufacturers into the fold.

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Arduino takes 3D printing open-source; HP lurks
19 November 2014, Manufacturing / Production Technology, Hardware & Services
HP has outlined its 3D printer roadmap but while the industry waits for its release, an open-source option has become available.

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Products of the Year
19 November 2014
We take a look back at some of the most innovative electronic components and technologies unveiled during 2014.

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Microchip demo kit and debugger to be won
19 November 2014
Dataweek is offering its readers the chance to win a PICDEM FS-USB Demo Kit and MPLAB ICD3 In Circuit Debugger from Microchip Technology. The PICDEM FS-USB (DM163025-1) is a demonstration board for the ...

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New website focused on electronics development for security market
19 November 2014
Engineers looking to develop cutting-edge security systems may want to pay a visit to the new security applications website launched by Mouser Electronics.    Accessible via the URL www.mouser.com/applications/security...

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Fab equipment spending shows strong growth
19 November 2014
Semiconductor front end fab (fabrication) equipment spending (including new, used and in-house) is projected to increase up to another 20% in 2015 to $42 billion, according to research from SEMI. In ...

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Freescale eager to adopt new ARM core
19 November 2014, DSP, Micros & Memory
Freescale Semiconductor has become one of the first microcontroller makers to back the brand new Cortex-M7 core architecture developed by ARM. While specifics are not available at this time, Freescale ...

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RH and temperature sensors from Silicon Labs
19 November 2014, NuVision Electronics
Silicon Labs’ second-generation relative humidity (RH) sensing solution – the Si701x/2x sensors – combine a standard CMOS mixed-signal IC with a proven technique of measuring humidity using a polymer ...

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