Soft, flexible polymer resin film stretches and returns to its original shape. Adapts to desired manners of folding and to varying free-form surfaces, substantially reducing existing design constraints. Enables construction of soft and stretchable electronic devices adaptable to a variety of forms, such as clothing and body. Can be used in wearable devices, sensors, displays, and robots. Tensile elongation is 2.5 times or more. Insulating film material capable of relaxing internal stresses arising from stretch, returning to its original shape, and withstanding repeated use Percentage of stress relaxation 60%. Recovery rate said to be 98% or more.

Panasonic, news.panasonic.com

FloEFD front-loading computational fluid dynamics tool now includes improved mesh handling, an enhanced transient solver, a robust EDA interface, and an interface to Abaqus Finite Element Analysis software for stress analysis. Offers capabilities for minimizing user time spent on meshing. Can automatically fill gaps of specified size. New equidistant refinement capability lets users build multilevel uniform meshes around body or surface of the model with one click. Mesh preview visualization tool helps users achieve desired mesh. Users can import geometric EDA data, including copper traces and vias. Interface supports Xpedition (CC or CCE), IDF and ODB++ PCB design data formats. Refractive index, depending on wavelength and temperature, offers higher accuracy of light and radiation analysis in case materials when complex spectral characteristics are used. Can visualize rays used for precise radiation modeling. Can export pressure and thermal loads to Abaqus. Calculation Manager displays projects currently running and those in the queue. Is available as standalone and/or CAD-embedded tool.

Mentor Graphics, www.mentor.com

K5000 manual and autoload depanelizer singulates multiple pre-scored printed circuit board panels in one pass. Panels up to 10.6" wide can be separated by placing onto an input conveyor to be passed onto separator blades. Comes in four configurations: as standalone straight-through operator load/unload machine, as an inline microprocessor-controlled SMEMA interface system for PCB hand-off from reflow output conveyor, as a single operator side-load system for LED lighting strips, and in an automatic PCB Rack input version for batch processing. Cutting area protected by see-through cover. Separated panels slide down an incline onto a conveyor belt or take-up tray. Up to 14 sets of blades can be placed side by side onto separator mandrels for singulating strips as thin as 0.5". Changing blade sets for different PCB panels is done from the side of the machine and takes about 15 min.

FKN Systek, www.fknsystek.com

InFrame Synapse MES v. 5.0 features a comprehensive suite of MES functionalities. Integrated workflow engine adapts to different business practices. Change and release management for all specification data objects. Custom equipment integration using user-definable workflows. Accommodates different and mixed degrees of automation from manual handling to high volume data collection. Scalable.

CamLine, www.camline.com