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4 SMT Magazine • February 2014 This month, Shea Engineering Services and Vicor team up for our cover feature, and join industry experts from Universal Instruments Corp., Nordson ASYMTEK, and DEK, for SMT Assembly, Part 1—Preparation for Soldering: Paste Printing and Component Placement. Fine-Tuning the Stencil Manufacturing Process and Other Stencil Printing experiments by Chrys Shea and Ray Whittier Testing Intermetallic Fragility on eNIG upon addition of Limitless Cu by Martin K. Anselm, Ph.D. and Brian Roggeman big Ideas on Miniaturisation by Clive Ashmore, Mark Whitmore and Jeff Schake Making Sense of accuracy, repeatability and Specification for automated Fluid Dispensing by Nordson ASyMteK 12 30 50 42 Cover photo courtesy of Photo Stencil.