70 SMT007 MAGAZINE I JUNE 2019
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Powerful Prototypes: Moisture
Sensitivity—What's the Risk, and
What Can You Do About It?
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Duane Benson describes
how a recent trip to New
Orleans, Louisiana, relates
to humidity and discusses
when he first learned that
plastic could absorb mois-
ture. Read on to find out the
risk and what you can do.
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Standard of Excellence: Four Tips on
Listening to Your PCB Suppliers
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Once you have done your due diligence, have
developed a strong working partnership with
your PCB suppliers, and now feel confident
that those suppliers are the right ones, the
next step is to recognize that your PCB sup-
pliers are indeed the true experts and that you
can trust them enough to listen to them. Here
are four tips on listening to and learning from
your suppliers to ensure that you have the best
PCB value that money can buy.
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Quest for Reliability: These Darn
Kids/Back in My Day
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Youth, both in terms of humans
and technologies, go together
since they rely on each other
to a large degree. The latter
has more than likely shaped
or even invented by the for-
mer. Regarding reliability and what we have
seen here in the failure analysis lab, youth in
the industry have played a large role.
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IPC Asia President Phil Carmichael
on China Trends
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At the productronica China
2019 show in Shanghai,
Barry Matties joined Phil
Carmichael, president of
IPC Asia, to discuss the
continued growth of IPC in
Asia, including the increas-
ing emphasis on training. IPC China has grown
from hosting two technical conferences five
years ago to 32 in the past year.
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