December 2017 • The PCB Magazine 79
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All Flex Hires Experienced CFO
and Sales Manager
All Flex has hired
two key individu-
als to bolster the
management and
expansion of its
high-performing
business areas.
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Walt Custer's Annual Update
from productronica 2017
Industry consultant
Walt Custer of Custer
Consulting sat down
with me at productron-
ica 2017 to once again
inform our readers with
his yearly update and
perspective on what's
happening in the industry. And guess what? It's
good news!
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The Right Approach: Steve's
Particular Set of Skills (to become
a World-Class Quality Manager)
Being a quality
professional today
is nothing like it
was 20 or 25 years
ago; on a person-
al level, I can at-
test to this fact. It
is no longer ade-
quate to appoint a quality manager simply based
on a person's command of acceptance criteria and
industry specifications; in the 21st century, a truly
hybrid executive is needed.
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Planning a PCB: Signal
Integrity and Controlled
Impedance Considerations
Knowledge and experience
are the two key elements
when planning a PCB. To-
day's PCB designers must
have far more knowledge
and understanding of the
PCB production process
than in the past. This is espe-
cially important when they
plan and how they plan the stackup, via span,
routing and power distribution.
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Punching Out!
PCB/PCBA M&A Top 10 FAQs
We frequently talk
with owners about
the possible sale of
their businesses. Here
are the top 10 ques-
tions asked by PCB/
PCBA shop owners
about the process.
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Ladle on Manufacturing:
Fabricating for Signal Integrity
Signal integrity! In a
world which is increas-
ingly high-speed and
digital, the chemical-de-
pendent and mainly an-
alogue-controlled world
of PCB manufacturing is
not always a comfortable
partner.
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