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PCB – Printed Circuit Boards
6 Mistakes PCB designers can avoid when designing printed circuit boards
Full report: EMS / ODM worry about profitability as fall 2011 survey reveals pessimism in electronics supply chain
471 survey respondents from EMS/ODM, Component Manufacturers, Distributors, Electronic Equipment Manufacturers, OEMs and Semiconductor Manufacturers answer questions on the economic situation; employment, inventory levels, business volume, and prices providing insight into the levels of …
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Military EMS and printed circuit board security risks using global innovation networks
Imagine a GPGPU semiconductor is developed in the U.S. or Japan, and the attendant software and supporting components are developed in India. Then, a medical imaging platform is conceived in Germany and a complete system is built, tested, configured and …
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Defining disaster in Japan: Impact on Japanese and global electronics industry supply chains
Japan represents 10% to 15% of global electronics demand but 16% to 30% of electronics component supply. OEMs with meaningful cash positions are trying to pull in orders, buying up available component supplies. Taiwan printed circuit board companies like Kinsus and Unimicron could see bigger negative impacts.
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Improving printed circuit board surface mount technology (SMT) line productivity with preventative maintenance and cause and effect analysis
Eliminating SMT line preventative maintenance to save costs in tough economic times is a mistake. Tracking SMT line performance with an SMT line downtime form can improve cause and effect analysis and increase productivity.
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5 Methodology steps to 6 sigma in electronics printed circuit board assemblies
An electronics manufacturer building one million circuit boards at 3 Sigma levels would build 66,807 defective circuit boards. Assuming each defective board required $100 worth of parts and labor to repair, it would cost $6,680,700 to complete the repairs.
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Schweizer Electronic and Japan’s Meiko Electronics make deal
Under the strategic partnership, Schweizer Electronic will be exclusively responsible for European printed circuit board (PCB) customers and Meiko Electronics exclusively for Asian PCB customers …
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12 Questions for Occam before buying the farm
The purpose of this article is to provide additional questions for those considering pursuing the implementation of the Occam Process …
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Printed circuit board industry to see global revenues reach upwards of $76 billion by 2012
August 16, 2007 – Global revenues for printed circuit boards (PCB) are given for a multitude of categories and the report details how regional shifts in PCB production and usage will continue through …
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Printed circuit board (PCB) demand change in market
June 1, 2007 – Investment bank Bear Stearns & Co. releases its interpretation of IPC’s April printed circuit board three (3) month rigid PCB book-to-bill industry survey results.
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