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Industry Trends Highlights 2004 p2 of 5:

• IPC releases new book-to-bill ratios and IMS/PCB business report
  AUGUST 30--IPC--Association Connecting Electronics Industries (Northbrook, IL; www.ipc.org) has announced the findings from its monthly Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Statistical Program.
• New high-performance cameras support surface inspection
  AUGUST 18--Says Volker Pape, chairman of the executive committee of the machine-vision group in the German Engineering Federation (VDMA; www.vision.de): "The traditional application area for machine vision is still quality assurance."
• Raising DSP forecast from 25% to 30%
  AUGUST 2--Semiconductor shipments for the first half of 2004, reported by Forward Concepts Electronics Market Research (Tempe, AZ; www.forwardconcepts.com), indicate that first-quarter DSP shipments were down 4% from the previous quarter.
• High growth predicted for industrial Ethernet
  JULY 30--The Industrial Ethernet market will grow rapidly for at least the next five years, according to automation-analysts IMS Research (Wellingborough, England, and Austin, TX; www.imsresearch.com ).
• NEPCON to return to Texas in 2004
  JULY 21--Sparked by an economic upturn, the NEPCON electronics-manufacturing trade show will be returning to Texas in October 2004.
• IPC releases IMS/PCB book-to-bill ratio
  JUNE 25--IPC--Association Connecting Electronics Industries (Northbrook, IL; www.ipc.org) has announced the findings from its monthly Interconnect Manufacturing Services (IMS)/Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Statistical Program.
• Automatica showcases robotics
  JUNE 21--The 565 exhibitors from 22 countries that displayed their wares in Munich, Germany, June 15--18, at Automatica, an international trade fair specifically for robotics and automation, found that the major market lies in various aspects of industrial manufacturing.
• Infrared users' conference to be held in Las Vegas
  JUNE 28--InfraMation 2004 will be the fifth consecutive Thermographers' Conference held by the Infrared Training Center (ITC) and FLIR Systems (North Billerica, MA).
• SID receives $100,000 to create educational endowment fund
  JUNE 17--The Society for Information Display (SID; San Jose, CA; www.sid.org), an international nonprofit society devoted to the advancement of display technology, manufacturing, and applications, has received a donation of $100,000 from Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).
• Assembly Technology Expo to celebrate 25th anniversary
  JUNE 17--When manufacturing professionals converge at Assembly Technology Expo (ATExpo) this September it will mark its 25th anniversary as a leading industry trade event.

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