MIT’s Director of Campus Planning, Engineering & Construction, Richard L. Amster, confirms that the university’s Building 12 could be demolished as early as this summer, pending approval by the City of Cambridge. The removal of the building will make way for the Nano-Materials, Structures, and Systems Lab (nMaSS), which is projected to be completed in […]
Cleanroom Wipes Reference Sheet
Blue Thunder Technologies has announced the release of a new cleanroom wipes reference sheet. This interactive document contains our complete line of wipes organized by cleanroom class, material, and key attributes. Click on the product title for more information about that individual wipe. The document measures 8.5″X11″ and can be printed out and used as […]
Rare Bacterium Discovered In Cleanrooms Can Withstand Chemical Cleaning, Ultraviolet Rays
November 06, 2013 – Recently discovered microbes that withstand stresses such as drying, chemical cleaning, ultraviolet treatments and lack of nutrients has been found in spacecraft clean rooms in Florida and South America.
Setting Up A Conformal Coating Production Facility – Electronics Manufacting / Assembly
General Requirements Any coating facility will need the basic requirements put in place that would be standard for any piece of electronic manufacturing process. These include ESD systems, facilities for the machines, the environmental requirements and the normal Health & Safety (HSE) considerations. The first two are straightforward and are not considered here. However, the […]
Lightning From Space
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Visteon Launches New Automotive Electronics Cleanroom Facility
New facility supplies cockpit electronics to fast-growing automotive markets in Southeast Asia RAYONG, Thailand, Oct. 16, 2013 — Visteon Electronics, a business unit of Visteon Corporation (NYSE: VC), today officially launched a new automotive electronics production facility in Rayong, Thailand. Visteon Automotive Electronics (Thailand) Limited supplies instrument clusters, audio products and multi-function displays to Ford, […]
Reproductive Biologists Move In Vitro Fertilization Knowledge Forward
AMHERST, Mass. – Two new papers from reproductive biologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with international partners, report advances in understanding the basic processes of sperm capacitation that may one day improve success rates of in vitro fertilization (IVF) by providing a shortcut to bypass problems, and may eventually lead to a male contraceptive. […]