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Herga's Electronic Engineer has successfully gained IPC610 A CIT Certification

Recently our new electronics Engineer George Mason, having only been with the company for 3 months has already successfully completed the IPC610A CIT course provided by Advanced Rework Technology Ltd. The IPC (Institute for Printed Circuits) has many globally recognised standards, providing...

The Advantages of 3D printing

At the moment we are not using our 3D printer as a way of manufacturing entire batches of our products. The main reason for acquiring one was to be able to produce prototypes of our new product developments, tooling and supporting test equipment. Using a 3D printer for this process has been the...

What is a footswitch?

Footswitches have many uses and come in different shapes and styles to suit these applications. Benefits of using a footswitch Space saving – footswitches are kept on the floor, in some applications – such as production lines or call centres desk space can be tight so using a...

What is the Difference between Latching and Momentary switches?

Many of our switches come with both latching and momentary options, the difference between these two switch configurations is discussed below. Latching switches Latching switches are switched on by the user and then remain on until switched off again. They do not require continuous...

Benefits of using Wireless Switches

We have been supplying wireless switches to a range of industries for a while now and we have found that there are benefits to using wireless solutions when it comes to switches. Benefits of using wireless switches   Tidy – not having wires means that the workspace remains...

Herga Engineering Team Further develop with completion of their CSWP

After successfully winning the Innovation award for Suffolk the engineering team wanted to further develop their CAD skills by completing a 2 day intensive SOLIDWORKS training program, provided by Solid Applications (www.solidapps.co.uk) to achieve CSWP (Certificate SOLIDWORKS...