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#Featured – SMT Magazine

“Screaming Circuits, a division of EMS firm Milwaukee Electronics, specializes in building short-run, one-off, and prototype PCB assembly, with rapid turn times and instant online quoting and ordering. Mike Galloway, technical team supervisor at Screaming Circuits, discusses with SMT Magazine the biggest challenges when it comes to assembling flex circuits, the critical factors affecting yields, and the key considerations for OEMs when selecting contract manufacturing partner for their flex circuit assemblies.”

Read the conversation with Mike Galloway over at SMT Magazine. Download the PDF here.

 

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Mydata Upgrades Increase Screaming Circuits’ Efficiency

Over the last quarter, Screaming Circuits has upgraded the hardware and software on all its Mydata equipment.

“Since we created Screaming Circuits, MyData machines have been an important part of our formula for success. As we integrated a MY12 into one of our production lines, we saw the opportunity to make upgrades across all our MyData lines and standardize them,” said Ashley Rochholz, Screaming Circuits’ Manufacturing Manager.

The upgrades included new cameras providing improved optics on all machines, software revision level upgrades, new hard drives and a new server.

The optics are particularly important be-cause as a quick turn prototype house, Screaming Circuits must deal with a wide variety of component styles and packaging types. Not all received material places well. The upgraded optics are identifying issues faster and providing more detailed error codes, which decreases the time needed to correct the issue. The new server has reduced programming and offline setup time.

The addition of the MY12 has also enabled the team to increase throughput.

“With the addition of this machine, we were able to take an older MyData ma-chine offline. We are now using it to experiment with offline setup strategies, while the MY12 has provided some nice efficiency gains,” added Ashley.

Ashley estimates that overall, the improvements have increased efficiency by 140 percent.

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Screaming Circuits Provides Prototype Circuits to Badgerloop

Milwaukee Electronics’ Operations Manager Terry Martin, Senior Director of Business Development Scott Pohlmann and Design Services Group Engineering Manager Larry Holten recently represented Screaming Circuits at the Badgerloop Pod Reveal Event in Madison, WI. Screaming Circuits is one of many sponsors of this innovative engineering project and has provided prototype circuits.

BadgerLoop is a student organization created to represent UW-Madison in the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition. The competition seeks to innovate transportation with Hyperloop, an idea presented by SpaceX and Tesla Motors co-founder Elon Musk in 2013. Hyperloop transportation involves pod-like travel down a vacuum tube at high speeds. Badgerloop’s ultimate goal is to win the competition, but more than that, to help lay the groundwork for this innovative new transportation technology.

The Badgerloop team revealed their pod on Dec. 6, at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery to eager transportation enthusiasts, including University of Wisconsin-Madison students, industry sponsors and community members, in preparation for the SpaceX Hyperloop competition this coming January.

The free event featured multiple aspects of the transportation pod, including displays of its motor, software components and magnet arrays. Representatives from many of Badgerloop’s 19 teams displayed and explained their work on the prototype, demonstrating that Hyperloop is more than a transportation dream.

Last January, Badgerloop placed third at Design Weekend, the initial phase of the Hyperloop pod competition sponsored by SpaceX. Badgerloop was the only team comprised primarily of undergraduate students.

In January of 2017, Badgerloop will attend competition weekend at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California and test their pod on SpaceX’s mile long test track.

Above, Milwaukee Electronics’ Operations Manager Terry Martin sits in the Badgerloop vehicle.

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Screaming Circuits wins Excellence award in Portland

The Portland Business Journal has recognized Screaming Circuits as an Oregon-based electronics manufacturing company who truly stands out not only within the industry it serves, but also in the city of Portland that it calls home. On October 30th, 2014, Read More

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Innovative Product Sponsorship by Screaming Circuits

Back in the 70s and 80s, the technology wave was hardware-driven and hardware engineering was king. Many of today’s largest companies were getting their start in an engineer’s garage or basement. Since then however, an increasing focus on exploiting the existing hardware via new software applications and enhanced connectivity has instead taken place. Read More

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Attending the EE Live! Tradeshow in San Jose

To kick off the second quarter of 2014, from April 1st to the 3rd a small group of representatives from Milwaukee Electronics’ Screaming Circuits business unit visited the McEnry Convention Center in San Jose, CA to attend the annual EE Live! tradeshow. Some of our current customers stopped by our booth to express how happy they are with our quickturn PCB assembly service, Read More

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Screaming Circuits’ Diverse Customer Base Trends

Although on average, 30-40 percent of Screaming Circuits’ customers eventually migrate to volume production, a larger portion of the overall customer base is transactional-based production. This means Screaming Circuits provides the majority of its customers with either standalone, or short-run PCB assembly services. Read More

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Joe Zaccari promoted to Business Unit Manager

Personnel Announcement

As of March 11, 2013, Joe Zaccari was promoted to be the new Screaming Circuits Business Unit Manager. In Joe’s new role he will manage the key front office functions: inside sales, customer service, purchasing, quoting and other areas that directly touch the customer. Read More

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