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Cover Story
The Year of Staying Employed
The aging (graying, some say) of the printed circuit board design field continues, or so says our annual survey of the industry. What 400 designers have to say about their chances for survival in the era of automation and outsourcing. by Chelsey Drysdale

• Faked Parts Detection
  New Techniques to ID Counterfeit ICs
  The counterfeiting of electronics components and related parts is widespread. But newly developed methods promise now to help identify counterfeit plastic-encapsulated components using detection methods that cannot be tricked. By by Dr. Lawrence W. Kessler and Thomas Sharpe

• FIRST PERSON

  • Caveat Lector
  
  Ride with Jeff.
  Mike Buetow

  • Database
    One designer’s winning pitch.
    Pete Waddell

  MONEY MATTERS

  • ROI
    Competency confusion.

    Peter Bigelow

  • Focus on Business
  
  A collaborative manufacturing template.

   

  Susan Mucha

   

  TECH TALK

  • Final Finishes

  
  No masking these changes.

   

  Lenora Toscano

   

  • Screen Printing

  
  Keep the printer running.

   

  Clive Ashmore

   

  • Tech Tips

  
  Conformal coating processes.

   

  ACI Technologies Inc.

   

  • Test and Inspection

  
  South beats East.

   

  Tan Beng Chye

   

  • Getting Lean

  
  Knowing the metrics.

   

  Ryan Wooten

   

   

FIRST PERSON