Market trends and business perspectives
The risk of contamination is something to be taken incredibly seriously in food and beverage industries, and especially so in the current pandemic.
The focus on keeping hygiene levels of your employees and equipment must be kept to the highest standards.
The advice in this article discusses how to decrease the risk of contamination in ingestible products to its lowest potential. [Read more…] about Hygiene Practices for if Your Factory Handles Food
By Serena Brischetto, marketing and communications manager at SEMI Europe
In the future, electronics-related gear including advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) will account for a whopping 50 percent of automotive costs.
More importantly, with more control of vehicles shifting to automation, the margin of error in component performance and reliability will become vanishingly small as zero defects become the new safety standard.
SEMI’s Serena Brischetto spoke with Antoine Amade, senior regional director EMEA, Entegris about zero defects as a “new collaborative approach” (see video below) necessary to shape the car of the future and the automotive industry. [Read more…] about Overcoming chip defectivity challenges in automotive product development
Sick has launched a new compact image-based code reader, Lector621, for reliable detection of 1D, 2D, stacked codes, and plain text.
The high-performance DPM – direct part marking – decoder can read laser or dot-peened codes perfectly, even in the case of low contrast levels, contamination, or poor code quality.
This fills a gap in Sick’s existing portfolio of code readers, by providing a compact solution with increased reading distance, resolution, field of vision, and scanning frequency. [Read more…] about Sick launches new compact image-based code reader
