Gift Shop ECR Polling over IP
Hennepin County Library
Hennepin County Library in Hennepin MN has been recognized as one of the top libraries in the United States. The 41-branch library system had 5.8 million in-person visits and almost 20 million Internet visits to their library in 2010.
Ether-Serial Link 1-232-DB9
When the library looked to connect their Electronic Cash Registers (ECRs) to a central location they chose a solution offered by local reseller American Metro Cash Register that included LAVA serial device servers. Attached to each in-branch gift shop/book store ECR, the LAVA Ether-Serial Links made it possible to poll each of the stores throughout the the library chain. This system allows them to do everything from monitoring end-of-day sales to doing on-the-fly lookups of items and prices.
LAVA appoints Euroline AS as its Distributor for Denmark, Faroe Islands, and Greenland
Euroline AS, a distributor and system integrator of connectivity products and solutions located in Dramman, Norway, has been appointed as Lava Computer MFG. Inc.’s Regional Distribution Partner for Scandinavia. For years Euroline has been reselling LAVA’s products in Norway, Finland, and Belarus, and it now has been appointed a distributor for Denmark, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands for LAVA’s lines of I/O cards and Ethernet-to-serial device servers.
“LAVA and Euroline’s existing relationship and history of joint projects, as well as Euroline’s extensive technical support and expertise in serial communications, were key factors in LAVA’s decision to appoint Euroline a full line Scandinavian distributor,” said Bob Figol, Vice-President, Lava Computer MFG. Inc. He further went on to say, “LAVA is looking forward to expanding our sales and marketing activities with Euroline in the Scandinavian marketplaces.”
Euroline carries LAVA’s Ether-Serial Links, USB-Serial Links, Serial Port Splitter, and HQ-ST Link polling system.
Brian Brown, President and Managing Director, Euroline AS says he is very pleased with this step forward between the two companies. He further stated, “We are pleased to receive this opportunity to work together with LAVA in these new territories and look forward to a profitable relationship for both parties. LAVA has vast technical experience and know-how, and their LAVA I/O News publication “Link” provides a wealth of information and insight.”
Mr. Brown added that LAVA specializes in the design and production of computer interfaces for non-industrial and industrial use. Its product lines include I/O cards and Ethernet-to-serial device servers. With I/O cards, various peripheral devices can be connected to computers. Furthermore, with LAVA’s Ethernet-to-serial device servers, RS-232 industrial devices can be easily linked to local computer networks via Ethernet. Both LAVA’s I/O cards and Ethernet-to-serial device servers have a long field lives and LAVA provides a LAVA Lifetime Warranty on all their products.
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Euroline AS is an ISO 9000 certified distributor of computer-based communication components and solutions. Euroline’s primary areas of activity are Serial Asynchronous/Synchronous Communications, CTI and Call Center solutions, WiFi, as well as technical administrative software. Within each of these fields, Euroline represents leading manufacturers/publishers who deliver high quality software and hardware. Besides products, Euroline offersCustomer Support, Technical Services, Development, and Consultancy. Euroline focuses on Quality of Service and Customer Satisfaction as their raison d’être.
Euroline aims to be a leading supplier in each of the fields within which it operates, and to establish itself as a point of contact in the Scandinavian and extended world market for these types of products and solutions. Euroline’s customers are primarily resellers of traditional IT-products, system integrators, software developers, OEM clients in the field of production and development, resellers of telecoms equipment/services, professional service providers, and more. It is through these channels that Euroline products find their way to the end-user. Visit http://www.euroline.no/.
LAVA: The Source for Ports.
About LAVA: Lava Computer MFG. Inc., headquartered in Toronto, Canada, designs and manufactures serial and parallel I/O cards and Ethernet-to-serial device servers widely used in the Point of Sale, Kiosk, Gaming, Light Industrial Automation, and Process/Access Control industries. With well over a million LAVA products built into workstations, servers, retail POS systems, and industrial computers since 1984, resellers, distributors, OEMs, and system builders in over 47 countries worldwide trust LAVA I/O boards and serial-to-IP connectivity solutions. Designed for lifetime performance, each LAVA connectivity link is individually tested and covered by the LAVA Lifetime Warranty. Visit http://www.lavalink.com.
Buduchnist Credit Union uses parallel interface for passbook printers
The Buduchnist Credit Union — a sizeable Canadian credit union catering largely to the Ontario Ukrainian community — uses the LAVA Parallel-PCIe, LAVA Parallel-PCIe/LP, LAVA Parallel-PCI and LAVA Parallel-PCI/LP cards as printer interfaces to IBM 9068-S01 passbook printers in their branches. As they upgrade their tellers’ computers to newer systems, they want to continue using the long-lived, specialized, and highly reliable printers they have installed. The LAVA parallel port cards fit the bill.
IBM passbook printer & parallel card
Soldering at LAVA
surface mount machine
It’s how we make our cards and boards: soldering is a part of the manufacture of all of LAVA’s electronic hardware. Soldering is in fact a couple of distinct types of soldering, as described in a couple of articles we’ve put together.
The first type of soldering, “surface-mount soldering,” is how components such as chips, resistors, and capacitors are typically fastened to a flat printed circuit board (a PCB) — in effect they are secured by the melting of tiny dabs of solder paste. That paste is applied to the PCB through a thin metal screen that has holes that match the solder pads on the PCB. Components are then placed precisely onto this prepared board, with the components’ contacts seated on the solder paste. This assembly is then passed through an oven that melts the solder paste, soldering the components to the board.
The second type of high volume soldering we do is “wave soldering.” This process is used for components that have conductors that pass from one side of the PCB to the other: “through-hole” components. Once these components are placed, the boards travel on a conveyor over a pool of molten solder. The solder adheres to the pins and contacts that touch it as they skim over the surface of the solder pool.
After these two types of soldering are done, the electronics of a particular board are essentially complete. That doesn’t mean that they are ready to sell however: they might in fact be parts of a larger assembly, or they might need to be programmed (as with firmware and MAC addresses). At the very least, they need to be cleaned of solder flux, inspected, tested (and yes, we test every one), and packaged.
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