MARCH 2018 I PCB007 MAGAZINE 83
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EIPC's 2018 Winter Conference in
Lyon, Review of Day 1 E
Venue for the 2018
EIPC Winter Confer-
ence was the splen-
did new Alstom Trans-
port Information So-
lutions facility in Vil-
leurbanne, in the Lyon metropolitan area of
the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Eastern
France. An extremely popular event—117 del-
egates represented a total of 20 countries, un-
precedented in recent years.
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The Best It's Ever Been, Every Year:
The Goal for IPC, Part 1 E
The end of 2017 caps an ex-
citing time for IPC and IPC
China as membership has
grown substantially, in part
because of new offerings
from the organization to its
Asian members. Meeting
with Barry Matties at HKPCA, John Mitchell
and Phil Carmichael discuss the areas of focus
for IPC in the upcoming year, first and fore-
most being education and welcoming a new
generation into the industry.
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Solder Limits: Updates for the Age
of Surface Mount E
Solder limits are one of
the fundamental parame-
ters used when evaluating
the PCB, solder resists, and
metal-clad base materials
for safety under the UL Rec-
ognition programme.
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All About Flex: Copper Thickness
Requirements for Flex Circuits E
An end user will specify the copper thickness
of a printed circuit for different reasons. The
most obvious reason would be for current-car-
rying capacity, but copper thickness also di-
rectly impacts thermal performance and im-
pedance. All these are vital properties impact-
ing the functionality and reliability of a flexi-
ble circuit.
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CircuitData: Creating an Open Source
Language for PCB Data Exchange E
I recently had the opportu-
nity to speak with Elmatica
CTO Andreas Lydersen on a
subject of great interest to
him and his supply chain,
namely CircuitData. This
open source language prom-
ises to greatly improve com-
munication of details that can often be misin-
terpreted due to the differences in terminology
used throughout the supply chain.
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Willy Wonka:
The Lean Case Study E
No matter where my trav-
els take me, I hear a wide
and limitless supply of ex-
cuses for why Lean will
not work in "my" orga-
nization. One of my fa-
vorite ways of illustrat-
ing that Lean will indeed
work anywhere is to take a Lean look at a very
unlikely organization, Willy Wonka's Choco-
late Factory.
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