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Cover Story
Equipping the PCB Design and Supply Chain with 21st Century Data
It’s an age-old story: A good design is undone at fabrication or assembly by a file transfer format that doesn’t accommodate key data. Yet, we still mechanically accept 30-year-old ways of communicating design intent to manufacturing. Change could finally be brewing, though, as a new industry consortium made up of OEMs, users and CAD/CAM providers drives for standardization across design, fabrication, assembly and test.
by Keith Felton and Hemant Shah

Recycling and Reuse
Benefits of an EMS for the EMS
The right Environmental Management System can help an electronics manufacturing services company monitor and comply with regulatory requirements, set and complete environmental objectives, and prevent pollution.
by Scott Mazur

FIRST PERSON

• Caveat Lector
  Unrepressing transference.
  Mike Buetow

MONEY MATTERS

• ROI
  Hardly intellectual, and barely property.
  Peter Bigelow

• Focus on Business
  It’s not me, it’s you.
  Susan Mucha
  

TECH TALK

• Designer’s Notebook
  Thermal vias.
  Duane Benson
  

• Screen Printing
  Scrap the waste.
  Clive Ashmore
  

• Selective Soldering
  Two is better than one.
  Al Cable
  

• Defects Database
  Eliminating test prints.
  Dr. Davide Di Maio
  

• Getting Lean
  Leaning NPI.
  Steve Fraser

• Technical Abstracts
  In Case You Missed It.