AWARD CATEGORIES 2009

1. Adhesive/Coating/Encapsulating Materials

This category includes conductive and non-conductive adhesives; water and solvent based conformal coatings and encapsulants used to embed and isolate electronic circuitry.

2. Alternative Energy - Production Equipment

This category includes equipment used in photovoltaic production, and the manufacturing of fuel cell and solar cell modules and systems.

3. Assembly Line Systems/Equipment

This category includes workstations, hand-tools, material handling equipment used on the production line.

4. Cleaning Equipment

This category includes cleaning equipment using aqueous, solvent based or ultrasonic cleaning methods.

5. Cleaning Materials

This category includes water and solvent based cleaning materials.

6. Dispensing Systems/Equipment

This category includes manual, semi-automatic and automatic dispensers of adhesives, encapsulants and other interconnection materials.

7. Environmentally Friendly Products/Materials

This category includes products and materials that contribute most towards pollution control, waste disposal and recycling.

8. Inspection Equipment - AOI

This category includes semi-automatic and automatic systems used for the optical inspection of printed circuit assemblies.

9. Inspection Equipment – X-Ray

This category includes semi-automatic and automatic systems used for the x-ray inspection of printed circuit assemblies.

10. Manual Soldering Equipment

This category includes soldering/desoldering irons and stations.

11. Pick and Place Systems/Equipment (Low/Medium Volume)

This category includes automatic and multi-function placement machines used in prototyping or low to medium volume manufacturing.

12. Pick and Place Systems/Equipment (High Volume)

This category includes automatic and multi-function placement machines used in high volume manufacturing.

13. Programming Systems

This category includes manual, semi-automatic and automatic device programmers for online and offline applications.

14. Reflow Soldering Equipment

This category includes reflow ovens used in the soldering process.

15. Repair/Rework Equipment

This category includes manual, semi-automatic and automatic rework systems for soldered components.

16. Stencil & Screen Printing Systems/Equipment

This category includes semi-automatic and automatic printing machines.

17. Process Control Systems

This category includes software and process control systems used to optimize equipment performance.

18. Production Management Systems

This category includes software and production management systems used to optimize assembly line performance.

19. Soldering Materials

This category includes tin lead and lead free solders and other interconnection products.

20. Test Systems/Equipment

This category includes ICT, Boundary Scan, Functional Test and other types of automated test equipment.

21. Wave Soldering Equipment

This category includes wave soldering equipment used in the soldering process.

22. Best Supplier of the Year (Reader’s Choice)

The winner of this category is voted by EM Asia and EM Asia-China readers for providing the best on-time delivery and technical service for their products and equipment.

Published by Reed Business Information Asia, Electronics Manufacturing (EM) Asia is the primary source of information for industry professionals, who design, assemble and test printed circuit board (PCB) assemblies in Asia. It is the premier publication in the region targeted at contract manufacturers (EMS/ODMs), OEMs and at their vendors, suppliers and distributors, who want to remain informed on the latest developments and technologies in the SMT and electronic packaging/interconnect industries.

 

EM Asia is available 9 (change to 6 times) times a year in English and Simplified Chinese, and reaches out to 21,000* qualified engineering professionals Asia and China.

 

* BPA Statement June 2008

Reed Business Information (RBI) Asia is part of Reed Business, a division of Reed Elsevier PLC. RBI Asia handles the B2B publishing operations and developments within the Asian markets and currently has operations in Singapore, Bangkok, Beijing, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Seoul and Taipei.