112 The PCB Magazine • July 2017
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I Never Realised it Was
so Complicated!
How many designers or
assemblers have ever
set foot in a PCB fabri-
cation shop? Nowhere
near enough! An initia-
tive by SMART Group
and Amphenol-Invotec
gave a group of engineers from design, assembly
and quality assurance positions the opportunity to
learn a little about the realities of high-end PCB
manufacture.
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Fein-Lines: Virus, Phishing,
Ransomware…Oh My!
Malware, the collective
name for viruses, Trojan
horses and other mali-
cious software that can
infect your computer,
has been in the news
lately, probably more
than at any time I can remember. Over the years,
malware has evolved; it can affect smartphones
and tablets as well as all computers.
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Deep Into Technology
at Compunetics
There aren't many print-
ed circuit companies in
my neck of the woods.
There is one, however,
that has always fascinat-
ed me, and that is Com-
punetics, in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, a suburb
of Pittsburgh. Having worked with them on the
electrophoretic photoresist, a PPG product, many
years ago, it was great to stop by and catch up
with CTO Tim Schmitt and others.
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HDP User Group 2017 European
Meeting Highlights Technology
Progress
The conference facility at the offices of Oracle,
in the royal burgh of Linlithgow in West Lothian,
Scotland, was the venue for the 2017 Europe-
an meeting of the High Density Packaging User
Group. I was delighted and privileged to be invit-
ed once again to sit in on the open session, an in-
tense programme of technical presentations and
discussions, project reviews, status updates and
new project proposals.
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