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Table of Contents Departments News Analysts predict first half of 2005 to be flat for connectors The December Bishop Report on the connector industry by Bishop & Associates (St. Charles, IL) said that in November 2004, connector orders were down 5.7%, making this the second consecutive month in which orders have declined over the same period last year. NEMI adds international moniker to name The National Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (NEMI), an industry-led consortium focused on strengthening the global electronics manufacturing supply chain, has announced that it has changed its name to iNEMI - the International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative. Molex announces plastic optical fiber connector Molex Incorporated has announced the development and first samples of a new IEEE 1394 small multimedia interface (SMI) plastic optical fiber (POF) connector and transceiver system to help enable home and industrial networking applications between various electronic devices. Newsmakers Editor's View Connector Specifier celebrates two decades Jennifer Rose, now Jennifer Read, marketing communications director at Avnet Electronics Marketing (Phoenix, AZ), recently described the start of Connection Technology magazine... News Briefs News Briefs Products New Products WHAT'S NEW CONNECTORS CABLING & CONNECTOR SUPPORT Focus On Manufacturing Coax/RF Connectors Features The state of the connector industry: Now vs. Then For Connector Specifier's 20th anniversary, we asked industry veterans with many years of involvement in the market to review the past two decades of connector technology. Connector Specifier: Twenty years of interconnect evolution I clearly remember the day I met Jennifer Rose, one of this magazine's first editors, who asked me to help her as an advisory editor for this new connector-oriented magazine back in 1985. A look back: a twenty-year history of the connector industry Appearing in the first issue of "Connection Technology" twenty years ago, industry analyst Ken Fleck still closely follows shipment volume, manufacturers, price points, and other dramatic industry changes. Surface-mount-technology terminal blocks face in-field reliability tests Reliability engineering helps compare the final end-use conditions of surface-mount-technology terminal blocks and through-hole-reflow technology terminal blocks.

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