14 November 2018: Feature Articles

• Where to for the SA electronics industry in 2019?
• NB-IoT’s place in the South African LPWAN picture
• Optical networking and sensing with POF
• Determining coil losses accurately
• Strategies for deploying Xilinx’s RFSoC
• Products of the Year 2018

10 October 2018: Feature Articles

• In memoriam: Zalman Orlianski
• Beat the exchange rate blues with local manufacturing
• EMS trends in 2018 and beyond
• Consider renting versus buying test equipment
• Top 10 development boards of 2018
• First-of-its-kind aircraft being designed in SA

12 September 2018: Feature Articles

• Electronic component shortages – a South African perspective
• Arrow Altech Distribution rebrands to Altron Arrow
• The role of security in the new era of IoT
• Design choices for Bluetooth Low Energy
• LPWA technologies in South Africa – which is best?

15 August 2018: Feature Articles

• How to make a pocket-sized white noise generator
• Hiconnex Industrial to make HARTING connectors for trains
• Internet of Agricultural Things enabled by LPWAN
• Conical Technologies and Mini Circuits invest in education

18 July 2018: Feature Articles

• SA buys R1 billion entrance ticket to fourth industrial revolution
• The impact of localisation on revenue and supply chain
• From zero to 100 million placements a month in 25 years
• Designing high-speed PCBs using four layers
• Minister dismayed at local content in STBs

13 June 2018: Feature Articles

• AAD and Resolution Circle upskill students
• Wits researchers make carbon nanotube discovery
• Power efficiency boosted by Sic and GaN technologies
• Thermal design incorporating EDA and MDA design flows
• Contenders for the future king of battery technologies

16 May 2018: Feature Articles

• An invisible war waged over electromagnetic spectrum
• How the aerospace and defence sector is shaping the modern world
• Navigating a way through GNSS
• Official send-off for SA satellite
• Company profile: Poynting

18 April 2018: Feature Articles

• UCT fund helps engineering student beat the odds
• The rise of edge computing
• Embedded deep learning framework for FPGAs
• Connectivity and reliable power – the keys to Africa’s 4th Industrial Revolution
• Open SMT assembly standard enjoying strong uptake

21 March 2018: Feature Articles

• Local manufacturers look forward to a brighter future
• R&D tax incentive applications streamlined
• Lessons learned from an ECM and the customer that sued them
• High-performance inertial sensing enables autonomous machines

21 February 2018: Feature Articles

• Power designers are being challenged by spec changes
• Testing the versatile USB Type-C interface
• Industry urged to submit waste management plans
• TUT engineering lab gets state-of-the-art test equipment

31 January 2018: Feature Articles

• Don’t be fooled by substandard, cheap antennas
• LTE is key to the future of M2M communication
• Quectel supports MQTT protocol for IoT
• Adding smart wireless connectivity to an LED lightbulb

EMP 2018 Electronics Manufacturing & Production Handbook: Feature Articles

• Localisation and the importance of brand
• The digital manufacturing challenge for Africa
• The importance of paying attention to component specifications
• To tent or not to tent vias
• Consumables, tools & accessories selection guide
• Directory of suppliers
• Equipment selection guide