September - October 08
Leader Tech's staff celebrates their new building. See story below.
Leader Tech Celebrates New Facility
Leader Tech is still celebrating the May completion and grand opening of its Global EMI Shielding Technology Center, prompted by a significant increase in both domestic and international demand for its high-performance EMI shielding products.
The new building, located on Race Track Road in Tampa, Florida is, as President Dario Negrini says, "a one-of-a-kind facility tailor-engineered to streamline and improve our customer service, engineering and manufacturing."
At a time when companies are moving away from EMI shielding customers through offshore manufacturing and distribution channels, Leader Tech is staying committed to the U.S. market by continuing to expand its industry- experienced team, innovative manufacturing technology and U.S.-based facility.
"As a core value of our company we believe that customers are better served when they talk directly to a live applications engineer instead of a machine," says Tim Black, director of sales and marketing.
The company's new address is Leader Tech Inc., 12420 Race Track Road, Tampa FL 33626. Their phone numbers are unchanged: (813) 855-6921 and Fax: (813) 855-3291. To see more photos in addition to the above Grand Opening event, visit www.leadertechinc.com.
Northwest EMC Begins Construction of Test Facility
Northwest EMC Inc. of Hillsboro, Oregon, an industry- leading EMC and EMI test and certification service provider, is expanding its operations into the Minneapolis, Minnesota area. After years of serving the west coast with EMC facilities in Washington, Oregon and California, a strong growth curve has helped the EMC market leader to expand and serve other geographies.
The Minneapolis facility will be equipped with the latest EMC and EMI test equipment, including a full 10 meter test chamber and Northwest EMC's proprietary software, which increases accuracy and decreases testing time.
"This expansion will help us to better serve the wireless, consumer electronics and medical device markets, and gives us a face-to-face presence with our clients in the Midwest. They have been commenting for years that they wish we were closer, so we have decided to come to them," said Dean Ghizzone, president of Northwest EMC.
Wiesbeck Receives IEEE Electromagnetics Award
Werner Wiesbeck, a pioneer in the field of electromagnetics whose numerous accomplishments have supported growth and innovation in radar and mobile communications, received the 2008 IEEE Electromagnetics Award. Wiesbeck's techniques on radio wave propagation have led to many commercial software products, while his work on antennas culminated in a wide range of architectures adopted by many European companies in the wireless and automotive industries.
The award, sponsored by the IEEE Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility, IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques and IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Societies, recognizes Wiesbeck for innovative electromagnetic applications in communication systems, remote sensing and EM compatibility. The award was presented to him on July 7 at the 2008 IEEE International Geoscience & Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) in Boston, Massachusetts.
Wiesbeck (on right in photo) is director of the Institute fur Hoechstfrequenztechnik und Elektronik at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.
Washington Laboratories Expands
Washington Laboratories Ltd. has opened a new environmental testing lab at Stanford Business Park in Frederick, Maryland. The business specializes in product safety compliance testing and engineering troubleshooting of electronic and electrical products for several industries.
The new facility boasts a full complement of environmental effects testing, including temperature, altitude, humidity, vibration and shock.
"We have been working hard to develop the capability to fill out our test offerings," said Berri Remenick, environmental lab manager. "This new location is ideal for our customers. We are 30 minutes from suburban Washington and the Dulles Airport Corridor and less than an hour from Baltimore."
Washington Laboratories is a full-service engineering and testing laboratory specializing in RF and electrical safety testing, training, wireless certification and regulatory export services.
Flomerics Helps Design New Telecom Platform
Simclar Group recently used Flomerics' Flotherm thermal simulation software to develop a new platform that goes well beyond the advanced telecom computing architecture (ATCA) 3.0 specification.
"Simulation gave me the freedom to consider a wide range of alternative designs by letting me evaluate their performance quickly and at very little cost," said Dave Watson, thermal design team leader for Simclar Group. "We succeeded in developing a platform that goes well beyond the ATCA 3.0 specification by delivering 40Gbps backplane bandwidth and 50 CFM airflow per slot with near-perfect airflow distribution."
"Thermal simulation was a critical process in our product development," Watson said. "Thermal simulation is like having X-ray vision. It lets you see inside the box to look at airflow, pressures and temperatures at any point. A single simulation gives you a detailed understan-ding of what is going on inside the box and helps you quickly identify the causes of the problem."
IEEE Approves Mobile Broadband Standard
IEEE has approved IEEE 802.20, Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks ‚ Standard Air Interface for Mobile Broadband Wireless Access (MBWA) Systems Supporting Vehicular Mobility ‚ Physical and Media Access Control Layer Specification. The standard will enable the worldwide deployment of cost-effective, spectrum-efficient, ubiquitous, always-on and interoperable multi-vendor mobile broadband wireless access networks.
The standard specifies physical and medium access control layers of an air interface for interoperable mobile broadband wireless access systems, operating in licensed bands below 3.5GHz, optimized for IP-data transport, with peak data rates per user in excess of 1Mbps. It supports various vehicular mobility classes up to 250kmph in a metropolitan area network environment and targets spectral efficiencies, sustained user data rates and numbers of active users that are all significantly higher than achieved by existing mobile systems.
ESCO Announces Major EMC Contract Award
ETS-Lindgren L.P., a subsidiary of ESCO Technologies, has been awarded a $16.7 million contract to design, construct, install and certify two automotive test chamber facilities in India for the National Automotive Testing and R&D Infrastructure Project (NATRIP). One of the largest test chamber contracts in ETS's history, it is expected to deliver over 20 months beginning in early fiscal 2009.
NATRIP, one of the largest and most significant initiatives in the world-wide automotive industry, represents a unique joint arrangement between the government of India, a number of state governments within India, and the Indian automotive industry to create a state-of-the-art testing, validation and R&D infrastructure within the country.
Vic Richey, ESCO's chairman and CEO, said, "This significant win not only confirms our number-one position in the global test market, but also validates how the Asian market is continuing to gain strength in the areas of new product design and development."
AR Awarded GSA Contract
AR Modular RF has been awarded a five-year General Services Admini-stration contract to supply booster amplifiers for use with tactical military radios. The GSA schedule contract, which represents AR's continued momentum as a recognized supplier to the federal government, will make it easier for government agencies to purchase AR equipment.
Under GSA contract S-07F-0371U, AR will be providing a variety of its rugged, waterproof, dependable, compact, battle-tested booster amplifiers a well as accessories such as power cables and shock-mount kits. AR Modular RF, based in Bothell, Washington, supplies booster amplifiers for tactical military radios, with a full line of amplifiers that cover the broadest frequency and wave forms.
Keithley Receives Industry Award
Kiethly Instruments has been awarded the prestigious Editor's Choice Best Product Award from Semiconductor International for its Model 4200-CVU semiconductor measurement system, used to make fast and easy capacitance-voltage (C-V) measurements. The annual awards, given at the SEMICON West show, find and reward the products created by companies that deliver the level of excellence needed to succeed in the semiconductor industry.
"C-V measurements are becoming a critical part of research and development in the semiconductor industry," said Mark Hoersten, Keithley vice president of business development. "Keithley's Model 4200-CVU is a fast and easy measurement instrument that is vital for product developers and researchers facing the challenges of characterizing new semiconductor materials for next-generation electronic devices such as smart phones and laptops."