78 The PCB Magazine • December 2017
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New I-Connect007 Team Members
Tour American Standard Circuits
Recently, Anaya Vardya, CEO
of American Standard Cir-
cuits, invited two of I-Con-
nect007's newest team mem-
bers, IT coordinator Jona-
than Zinski and Editor Kier-
sten Rohde, to tour his facility
in West Chicago, Illinois. Happy Holden, resident
PCB expert, also joined the newbies on their field
trip to ASC. In the following articles, Jonathan and
Kiersten describe their experience touring ASC.
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It's Only Common Sense: A
Frustrated PCB Customer Vents
I recently received an e-mail
from a good friend at a top mil/
aero company. Here's just one
snippet: "Why do I have to call
and ask, 'Where is my stuff?' If
it were just one board shop, I
would say good riddance and
move on. But it is almost universal among our sup-
plier base that late deliveries only get discovered
when we ask…"
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Rex Rozario's Next Big Thing,
Part 1
Barry Matties joins
Rex Rozario at Lymp-
stone Manor, one of
Rex's investments
outside of the elec-
tronics industry. The
property, once an
old country house in
the Exeter country-
side, has been trans-
formed into a splendid hotel and restaurant.
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RTW SMTAI: NCAB's Perspectives
on HDI and Miniaturization
John Piccirilli of NCAB
Group discusses the
trends in HDI and min-
iaturization he's seeing
around the world. He
also talks about oth-
er interesting tech-
nologies such as met-
al-backed PCBs and
stretchable materials.
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