October 2018
IPC Day 2018 “Understanding Failures for Improved Reliability”
Dear Madam, Sir, We are pleased to invite you to attend 2018 IPC Day on “Understanding Failures for Improved Reliability”, which will be held in ’s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands on Thursday 6 December 2018. Thematic Presented by Mr. Bhanu Sood, Commodity Risk Assessment Engineer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, this IPC Day will present and discuss a wide range [...]
New IPC Edge Certification Portal 2.0
IPC NEWS: New IPC Edge Certification Portal 2.0 New IPC Edge Essentials mandatory for each student (CIS, CIT and MIT) New IPC Policies & Procedures version 6.1 New IPC Edge Certification Portal 2.0: In August 2018 IPC drastically changed its online registration system (CQI Portal). The new IPC Edge Certification Portal 2.0 helps the trainer to register participants. The new [...]
Digital health care
Health care is becoming more and more digital because of the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT). This leads to numerous advantages for both patients and health care providers. Even those who do not need direct medical assistance but just preventive health care can benefit. During the Las Vegas CES (Customer Electronics Show) many new [...]
September 2018
Choosing for PIEK is choosing for a top-quality partner
Why is it that you have chosen for PIEK? This is what we always ask our new customers. It is also what we asked a member of the Management Board of a leading medical company. ‘Quality is a top priority in our sector. We supply equipment for operation theatres, and we cannot afford even once delivering a product that does [...]
Fake news and it’s Impact on users
Every day we hear about fake news in the papers, on radio and on television. On social media we get bombarded with fake news, and we also read posts about it there. How can ordinary consumers like us tell the difference between real news and fake news? We have to, because fake news is a high-impact business. Just consider the [...]
August 2018
Self-driving cars: the end of traffic fines?
The autonomously driving car will be everywhere in the near future. In the meantime, however, adjustments have to be made in many fields, such as legislation. As we speak, the complete automotive industry is working hard on developing a self-driving car, pouring millions of dollars and euros into the projects. All over the world experiments are conducted. Semi-autonomous taxis are [...]
In shape by education
General Practitioners keep in shape by getting education. After a university study and various in-depth specialisation courses and enrichment courses general practitioners go to work in their own practices. However, this does not mean that their education is a thing of the past. Every year they have to score 250 points in retraining and additional training. This keeps them up [...]
July 2018
The future of social media
More than a decade ago we saw the birth of social media, and it already seems as though they have been always been part of our lives. Young people in particular can no longer do without social media. Recent research among students reveals that especially Facebook, Pinterest and Whatsapp take up most time. Social media take up over two hours [...]
Worldwide only three IPC training centres
Worldwide only three training centres have been authorised to provide all IPC training courses. PIEK is one of these, and it is the only one in Europe. Obviously, PIEK is very proud of this. It is with good reason that PIEK’s instructors participate in the development of new IPC certifications and cooperate in updating existing IPC courses. The reason that [...]
June 2018
Cybercrime: how bad is it going to be?
Let’s not beat about the bush but give an answer straight away: it is only going to be worse. In this article we will address the causes and provide some tips to arm yourself against it. The tips are no guarantee that cybercrime will never affect you, but you now know you have been warned. Cybercrime is simple and lucrative [...]
Artificial intelligence: the long road ahead
Artificial Intelligence (AI), everybody is talking about it but few really understand what it stands for and what it will mean for our future. At this moment we are only beginning to see the possibilities of AI, and the end is nowhere in sight. In this article we will be exploring what AI is, what machine learning is and what [...]
Employees used to be proud and loyal, but how about now?
Things used to be different back in the day. This is certainly true for one particular development: the time that employees stay with one and the same company. Employees used to start working for a company at a very early age and they would go up the ladder over the years, building the company as they went along. Pride in [...]
May 2018
Highlight at the 2018 SMT
PIEK and IPC would be delighted to welcome you at this year’s SMT Hybrid Packaging Fair in Nuremberg. Please visit our stand no. 400 in Hall 4 and find the experts in the electronic interconnect industry there. Exchanging experiences, getting to know each other and entering the hand-soldering competition are the main things to go for. Invitation to the IPC [...]
Less should be more in the future
This article will focus on energy consumption. Though this is not a new theme, it is a major one impacting the electronics industry more and more and leading to ever greater challenges. Electronic devices are essential parts of our lives. In Germany alone 1.8 million tonnes of electronic equipment are sold every year. It is not so important that each [...]
April 2018
Upheaval in the transport sector
Autonomously driving lorries with sensors on board, containers with sensors and cranes equipped with artificial intelligence can all communicate with each other. It sounds like science fiction, but it is no longer so. It is the beginning of dramatic changes in the transport sector. Professions such as a lorry driver, a taxi driver and a package deliveryman may not have [...]
Concentration of industries in Europe
Various researchers have looked into the reasons why there is a concentration of industries in certain geographical areas and not in others. Their research nearly always indicates that there is a connection between the clustering of industries and the characteristics of geographical areas. There are three factors at play, namely the presence of goods, people and ideas. The extent to [...]
