Siemens today announced it has acquired ASTER Technologies ("ASTER"), a privately held market leader in printed circuit board ...

Siemens has announced the acquisition of ASTER Technologies, a provider of printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) test ...

Siemens plans to integrate Aster's advanced "shift-left" design for test functionality into Siemens' Xpedition and Valor ...

This new technical paper titled “End-to-end deep learning framework for printed circuit board manufacturing defect classification” is from researchers at École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS) in ...

Integration enables companies to prepare designs and implement robust test strategies early in the PCB assembly process ...

Board manufacturers are boosting their investment in inspection, test and analytics to meet the increasingly stringent demands for reliability in safety-critical sectors like automotive. This ...

Most electronic assembly lines produce some defects, or faults. For example, solder-paste printers may deposit excess, smudged, or insufficient quantities of solder, and component pick-and-place ...

As the core technology used in modern electronics manufacturing, surface-mount technology (SMT) assembly density is increasing, the number of pins is increasing, and the pitch is decreasing. In ...

This strategic move integrates ASTER’s advanced "shift-left" design for test (DFT) functionality directly into Siemens' ...