TORONTO, Oct 11, 2011 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) –
SMTC Corporation

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(“SMTC”), a recognized global electronics manufacturing services provider, announces today that they have successfully secured a manufacturing partnership with Prim’Tools, one of the world’s leading manufacturers and distributors of laser level surveying equipment, and measurement devices. Prim’Tools is part of Hexagon Group, a world leader in design, measurement, and visualization technologies and solutions.

Prim’Tools have chosen SMTC’s Dongguan, China based manufacturing facility to provide a complete turn-key manufacturing solution for its next generation of laser precision measurement equipment used in the construction industry. In order to meet Prim’Tools objectives, SMTC has established a dedicated core team for new product introduction (NPI) and performed design for manufacturing (DFM) analyses as part of its engineering solution based services. SMTC will also provide complex electronic manufacturing services including Printed Circuit Board Assembly (PCBA) production, board level assembly and testing.

Prim’Tools will leverage SMTC’s expertise in Supply Chain Management (SCM) services by utilizing its well-established network of material sourcing and purchasing power to help drive costs and reduce delivery times through its Procurement Centre in Hong Kong.

“We are confident that SMTC will be committed to providing Prim’Tools with excellent turn-key solutions and we very much look forward to building on this partnership as we move forward,” said Eric Lee, General Manager of Prim’Tools.

“We’re delighted to welcome Prim’Tools as our newest customer,” said Andy Li, Vice President and General Manager of SMTC China. “Our customers rely on our dedicated people and manufacturing capabilities as they deliver mission critical solutions to their end customers. We look forward to partnering with Prim’Tools to deliver superior service and operational excellence.”

About SMTC Corporation: SMTC Corporation, founded in 1985, is a mid-size provider of end-to-end electronics manufacturing services (EMS) including PCBA production, systems integration and comprehensive testing services, enclosure fabrication, as well as product design, sustaining engineering and supply chain management services. SMTC facilities span a broad footprint in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and a partnering relationship in China, with more than 1,000 full-time employees. SMTC services extend over the entire electronic product life cycle from the development and introduction of new products through to the growth, maturity and end-of-life phases. SMTC offers fully integrated contract manufacturing services with a distinctive approach to global original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and emerging technology companies primarily within industrial, computing and communication market segments.

SMTC is a public company incorporated in Delaware with its shares traded on the Nasdaq National Market System under the symbol SMTX and on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol SMX. For further information on SMTC Corporation, please visit our website at
www.smtc.com (
http://www.smtc.com/ )

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About Prim’Tools: Prim’ Tools is a laser level manufacturer, surveying equipment and accessories, measurement tools and devices distributor. It is located in Hong Kong, headquartered in France, with factories in the U.S., Germany, France and China. For more information, please visit,

http://www.hexagon.com

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SOURCE: SMTC Corporation

CONTACT: For further information about SMTC:
Thomas Reilly
Director of Marketing
Telephone: (905) 479.1811
Email: thomas.reilly@smtc.com

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HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Oct. 11, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ –
ARC Advisory Group, the leading research and advisory firm for industry and infrastructure, has again ranked Intergraph® as the world’s No. 1 software provider, this time in its recently released “Process Engineering Tools (PET) Market Analysis and Forecast through 2015.”

The ARC study provides an in-depth analysis of the PET market for process manufacturing by industry segment and geographic region. The tools and applications covered in the PET study include a large portion of those necessary to manage engineering activities that create or use engineering data throughout the life cycle of a plant or marine asset. Profiles for major suppliers servicing the PET market are also listed.

In addition to ranking Intergraph as the overall global leader, the ARC Advisory Group study also places Intergraph first in numerous individual categories, including the No. 1 provider of engineering design tools and engineering design 3D software. ARC ranks Intergraph as the top supplier to many industries, including chemical, mining and metals, oil and gas, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, and refining. Intergraph is also ranked No. 1 geographically in all three of its regions: North and Latin America; Europe, Middle East, India & Africa; and Asia-Pacific.

“Intergraph has a large and comprehensive product portfolio that provides users with a compelling value proposition,” said Janice Abel, principal consultant with ARC Advisory Group and the study’s co-author. “Intergraph has established itself as the premier enterprise engineering company by understanding that engineering data is a valuable corporate asset and must be properly managed at the enterprise level.”

Gerhard Sallinger, Intergraph Process, Power & Marine president, said, “The ARC Advisory Group’s PET analysis validates what we see and hear in the marketplace each day: Intergraph provides the best and broadest solution portfolio through our SmartPlant® and SmartMarine® Enterprise suites. Our solutions are the most advanced and productive ones available to the process, power and marine industries, allowing our customers to increase safety, quality and productivity, while shortening project schedules.”

Intergraph SmartPlant and SmartMarine Enterprises offer a powerful portfolio of industry-leading, best-in-class design and data management solutions, enabling companies in the process, power and marine industries to capture integrated engineering knowledge at the enterprise level for the competitive advantage needed in today’s and tomorrow’s markets. Intergraph enterprise solutions enable proven productivity gains, improving engineering efficiency by up to 30 percent.

About ARC Advisory GroupFounded in 1986, ARC Advisory Group is the leading research and advisory firm for industry and infrastructure. Its coverage of technology extends from business systems to product and asset life cycle management, supply chain management, operations management, energy optimization and automations systems.
www.arcweb.com

About IntergraphIntergraph is the leading global provider of engineering and geospatial software that enables customers to visualize complex data. Businesses and governments in more than 60 countries rely on Intergraph’s industry-specific software to organize vast amounts of data to make processes and infrastructure better, safer and smarter. The company’s software and services empower customers to build and operate more efficient plants and ships, create intelligent maps, and protect critical infrastructure and millions of people around the world.

Intergraph operates through two divisions: Process, Power & Marine (PP&M) and Security, Government & Infrastructure (SG&I). Intergraph PP&M provides enterprise engineering software for the design, construction, operation and data management of plants, ships and offshore facilities. Intergraph SG&I provides geospatially powered solutions to the public safety and security, defense and intelligence, government, transportation, photogrammetry, and utilities and communications industries. Intergraph Government Solutions (IGS) is an independent subsidiary for SG&I’s U.S. federal and classified business.

Intergraph is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hexagon AB, (nordic exchange:HEXA B) and (swiss exchange:HEXN). For more information, visit
www.intergraph.com and
www.hexagon.se .

© 2011 Intergraph Corp. All rights reserved. Intergraph, the Intergraph logo, SmartPlant, and SmartMarine are registered trademarks of Intergraph Corp. or its subsidiaries in the United States and in other countries. Other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective owners.

SOURCE Intergraph

Copyright (C) 2011 PR Newswire. All rights reserved

With Windows Phone 7.5 Mango starting to reach end users phones, Microsoft is releasing tools and sample code to help developers port their iPhone and Android mobile apps to the updated Microsoft platform.

On Monday, Jean-Christophe Cimetiere of Microsoft, blogged about a new mobile database conversion tool called SQLite2CE. Available on CodePlex, it converts your mobile app database to SQL Server Compact and creates the default classes necessary for running it on Windows Phone, according to Cimetiere. Microsoft is also offering a free utility, SQLiteQuery2LINQ on CodePlex to convert SQL queries into Microsofts Language Integrated Query (LINQ).

With Steve Jobss death, interest in Apple products is higher than ever. I was at the Apple store in Boston over the weekend and a sizable crowd was outside the store photographing the memorial of heartfelt notes, bouquets, apples with bites out of them and the like.

Apple didnt create the app store concept but Steve Jobs and company definitely created the consumer market for mobile apps. I covered the launch of the Apple App Store in a Mobile Revolution cover story in Redmond Developer News in the summer of 2008 and asked, Will a paradigm shift rock the mobile application industry if the iTunes App Store strikes a chord with users? At the time, many of the Windows Mobile developers I talked to thought that it would, despite comments about the strength of Microsofts developer tools, including SQL Server Compact versus SQL Lite.

Back then, Apple had about 1,100 apps versus 18,000 Windows Mobile apps but people didnt realize it, said Ellen Craw, the general manager of longtime Windows Mobile app development company Ilium Software. There were MP3 players way before the iPod, but nobody made it big until Apple, she told me in 2008. Research in Motion was looking at the PDA market and thinking, Yes, this is what it should be, and then Apple showed people how huge it can be. We always believed it could be huge.

Nobody made it big until Apple is an apt description of the companys phenomenal success in the MP3 and music industries, App Store and smartphones, and now tablets. It will be interesting to see what happens with iCloud.

At the end of a commencement speech at Stanford University in 2005, Steve Jobs noted a motto of his that came from the back page of the final issue of The Whole Earth Catalog: Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. Thanks for following your dreams Steve.

Express your thoughts below or drop me a line at krichards@1105media.com.

Posted by Kathleen Richards on 10/11/2011 at 5:16 PM

Yet another suite of tools for IT security folks to administer and manage can actually have the opposite effect.

NEWBERG, Ore. & LOUISVILLE, Ky., Oct 11, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) –
Key components of the Markland Locks on the Ohio River have been
repaired following a 17-day on-site machining project undertaken by the
Army Corps of Engineers, who used a custom-built portable milling
machine concepted by the Army Corps of Engineers then designed and
developed by Climax Portable Machine Tools. The Corps’ expert machinists
completed refurbishment of the 65-foot lock quoins that seal the area
between the lock wall and gates in preparation for new miter gates that
are being erected at the Markland Dam.

This was a project of major milestones for the Army Corps of Engineers
Louisville District. Most notably, by using the portable on-site
machines from Climax, the Corps of Engineers:

–
Completed the repair within 17 days, which compares favorably to other
near-term fixes or nearly 60 days involving cutting out the concrete
and replacing the quoins, which is seldom attempted.

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Estimates a $61 million savings in time and labor.

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Expects a 500 percent return on investment for their machine tool
purchase.

“We were looking for a better method for refurbishing the lock quoins,
and definitely found one in the Climax machine. Although this was the
first time we’ve ever used portable machine tools in situ for a job of
this nature, the methodology has already become a best practice for us
for future repair jobs,” said Gerard Edelen, USACE project manager on
the Markland Locks project. “The return on investment, time savings and
performance make this job a huge success.”

The Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District has eight locks and dam
sites on the Ohio River in their district, each with two lock chambers.
In total, 40 to 45 wall quoins eventually will have to be refurbished in
all miter gate change-outs. Because the Climax milling machines and rail
beds are modularly designed, the Corps will be able to transport them
easily via boat or truck and set them up to repair lock quoins at each
site.

“We are highly impressed by the Army Corps of Engineers’ drive to find
new, more efficient method for refurbishing the quoins, and for making
wise use of the limited funds available for infrastructure projects,”
said Geoff Gilmore, president and CEO of Climax Portable Machine Tools.
“This project is a perfect representation of the types of projects where
Climax thrives — where precision tools can revolutionize the way
challenging projects are done.”

Funding for the entire project came in part from the inland waterways
trust fund via tows and usage fees, and a portion from Congress
appropriations. The contract award for the Climax Portable Machine Tools
was to design, build and test the milling machine and to train the
Corps’ machinists on how to safely operate the machine. The Climax team
acted in an advisory capacity to the ACE’s machinists during the project
to ensure that the milling machine Climax developed would operate as
designed. The Climax machine was funded under the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act (ARRA), which earmarked money for the Army Corps of
Engineers for construction projects.

More information, including photos, daily repair logs, video from the
repair, and background on the entire Markland Locks project is available
at Climax’s
blog,
www.cpmt.com/blog .

About Climax Portable Machine Tools, Inc.

Based in Oregon and Germany, Climax Portable Machine Tools, Inc. is a
strategic world-class provider of comprehensive, custom and standard on-site
machining and automated welding solutions. The company offers
specialized engineering consulting services, customized training
programs and a full line of portable machine tools, BoreWelders and
BoreCladders for sale and rent. These machines enable customers to
efficiently perform on-site machining and automated bore welding for
applications in industries including power generation, shipbuilding,
petrochemical, heavy construction and mining, as well as service and
engineering sectors. Climax holds 22 issued patents with four pending,
and serves domestic and international markets through its own
international offices and licensed representatives in 32 countries. More
information about the company is available at
www.cpmt.com
or by calling 1-800-333-8311 toll free in the US or 1-503-538-2185
worldwide.

SOURCE: Climax Portable Machine Tools, Inc.

Organization Contact:
Climax Portable Machine Tools, Inc.
VP of Marketing
Andy Becker, 503-538-2185
abecker@cpmt.com
or
Media Contact:
Grady Britton
Marion Margiotta, 503-228-4118
marionm@gradybritton.com

Copyright Business Wire 2011

In terms of corporate deployment, RIMs BlackBerry is still the platinum standard for IT teams to manage, an area in which iOS- and Android-devices are considered to be very poor performers. Theres a lot of reasons for this: the BlackBerry Enterprise Server is great for local and remote management and security policy implementation. And BlackBerry devices have enough hooks inside that cellular carriers can sell pre-configured devices in bulk to corporate accounts.

This need is still pretty great: while consumers drool over the latest Apple and Android devices, companies like those in the logistics and shipping industries need locked-to-contacts-only push-to-talk smartphones for drivers, traffic agents, and managers. Or high-security facilities need employees with phones that dont have on-board camera functions.

The department adopted the tip411 and Citizen Observer programs in September, adding them to a number of other technology-based tools.

But they arent the only ones taking on new tools: Many York County police departments have started using smartphones, Facebook, Twitter and Web updates to improve community relations and advance investigations.

Chief Wes Kahley said the anonymous texting system has alerted officers to illegal activity and given them leads on ongoing cases. More than anything else, he said, they get tips related to drugs.

Citizen Observer, a Web-based notification system, also has taken off — used by media organizations and the community to keep up on police activity.

Citizen Observer also has helped get information out faster. Before taking on the program, Kahley said, news releases were circulated through the police department and the mayors office, then sent out to news outlets.

But combine Citizen Observer, Facebook and Twitter updates, Kahley said, and keeping everything updated can be time-consuming — plus it requires a little instruction for those new to social media.

In the long run, Kahley said, the Web updates have helped them fulfill a goal to keep the community informed.

But some police departments arent as eager to sign up for the next social media tool.

Southern Regional Police Department also has found new technology to be a useful tool, but officials there use it with caution. In February, someone from the department posted an update on Facebook about an officer being injured by a K-9 during an arson arrest.

Calls came in for information, but the department wasnt ready to release it.

There has to be some sort of check and balance, Chief James Boddington said. People are anxious to tell people of the good work they do, but you cant post things prematurely.

Boddington also has seen technology help create new waves of crime, such as harassment by communication, sexting and identity theft.

Maybe these forms of social media arent as good as everyone thought, Boddington said.

But the department has taken on other tools to assist in day-to-day tasks, such as giving iPhones to supervisors to take photos at crime scenes. Hes also found cellphones to be a helpful tool for people to report drunken drivers.

Other county police departments have found technology to work so well that theyre looking for ways to take on more.

Northern York County Regional Police updates its website almost daily with arrests and crime alerts. Since they started running it a little more than a year ago, the website has had more than 250,000 visitors — many who check the site numerous times a day.

We felt the need to become involved with the community on a regular basis, Chief Mark Bentzel said.

So far, he added, running the site has proved to be a useful tool, at a very low cost.

Any tips people submit through the website are forwarded to patrol officers, Bentzel said. Many are in response to articles on the website, but several give information on drug activity, drunken drivers and robberies.

Not all tips pan out or provide enough information, Bentzel said, but many have been very useful.

Northern Regional hasnt made the move to a Facebook page, but social media has helped in other ways. A resident recently saw a message on Facebook about Spring Grove Area High School being vandalized with spray paint during a weekend. Someone called it in, and police were able to check it out before the school would have reported it Monday.

In that regard, its like everyone knew but us, Bentzel said.

Instead of taking on additional online platforms, he said, the department hopes to develop a smartphone app that will list police incidents. Theyll also revamp their website this month, giving it a new look and making it easier to use.

While some technological advances have benefited law enforcement, others have fallen short.

Kahley said one bit of technology thats not working so well for York City Police is ShotSpotter, he said.

The city put in the controversial gunfire-detection system in 2008, but it picks up several noises, from cars backfiring to fireworks.

No form of technology is going to solve crime, Kahley said. Its just another tool in the toolbox.
rlefever@ydr.com; 771-2088

Staying informed

Several York County police departments offer multiple ways for people to report crimes or get alerts.

York City Police: Report crimes by calling 846-1234, or send an anonymous text to TIP411 847411 by typing the word YORKTIPS, then leaving a message. Sign up for crime alerts through email or texts at citizenobserver.com.

Northern York County Regional Police: Report crimes by calling 292-3647 or visit nycrpd.org. News updates also are put on the website.

Spring Garden Township Police: Report crimes by calling 843-0851 or visit sgtpd.org to submit information. News updates also are put on the website.

Southern Regional Police: Report crimes by calling 235-3944. Visit srpd.us for news updates and to sign up for email alerts.

York Area Regional Police: Report crimes by calling 741-1259. Visit yapd.org for news updates.