Apex a Sign of Trade Show ...What Exactly?

摘要

IPC Apex Expo came to a close on March 27, completing its annual three-day run at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas. The trade show, the electronics assembly industry's largest in the US, appeared to most observers to have attracted slightly more attendees than last year's event in San Diego, and exhibitors on the whole seemed relatively upbeat about the year ahead. That's the good news. It won't shock many to learn that few significant developments debuted this year; most equipment and materials demonstrated were also shown at Productronica in Munich last November. And what was truly new to Apex were in many cases solutions to the age-old through-hole technology.