Dage Partners With American Competitiveness Institute

Dage Precision Industries the global leader in digital x-ray inspection technology, is pleased to announce that it has partnered with the American Competitiveness Institute (ACI) to provide large, high resolution x-ray images for failure analysis and other optical inspection requirements.

The demonstration factory of ACI recently received a XD7600 x-ray inspection system from Dage. The unit provides oblique angle viewing of up to 70-degrees with sub-micron feature recognition and real-time digital inspection at 1.3 mega pixel viewed on a 20” flat panel LCD display. This performance is available with the ease of use for which Dage systems have become universally acclaimed making this superior functionality readily available for the most demanding x-ray inspection tasks.

The American Competitiveness Institute is a scientific research corporation dedicated to the advancement of electronics manufacturing for the Department of Defense and the electronics manufacturing industry. ACI operates the U.S. Navy’s Center of Excellence, the Electronics Manufacturing Productivity Facility (EMPF), and the U.S. Army’s Electronics Sustainment Center (AESC).

The ACI demonstration factory is supported by equipment manufacturers and material suppliers, who supply the latest in electronics manufacturing equipment and materials for use at the EMPF facility. The EMPF's Equipment Advisory Board (EAB) consists of representatives from many of the leading electronics manufacturing equipment firms throughout the country, who ensure successful technology transfer and deployment.