AWARD CATEGORIES 2010

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 Production Equipment

This category includes equipment that contributes most towards pollution control, waste disposal and recycling.

8. Environmentally Friendly Products/Materials

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

9. Inspection Systems – AOI/SPI

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

10. Inspection Equipment – X-Ray

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

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. Software/Production Management Systems

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

19. Soldering Materials

This category includes solder fluxes, tin-lead and lead free solders as well as other interconnection products.

20. Test Systems/Equipment

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

21. 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.

22. Outstanding Product of the Year (China)

This winner of this category is the product/equipment offered by a Chinese company that has achieved the highest overall score in accordance to the EM Asia Innovation Awards judging criteria.

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