NOVEMBER 2019 I DESIGN007 MAGAZINE 37
Chinese Review: The 2018 NTI-100 Top
Global PCB Fabricators E
NTI released the list of the world's top PCB
manufacturers in 2018, and this information is
of great interest to the industry to determine
what is going on in the industry and analyze
the global situation. I will examine the curren
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cy exchange rate, company rankings, global
distribution of the top-ranked companies, glob-
al total PCB output, and the automotive sector.
It's Only Common Sense: The Modern
Salesperson E
It's a new world, and the modern salesperson
has to keep up or get run over; that's just that
way it is. Dan Beaulieu shares five steps that
every great, modern-day salesperson—from
age 24 to 74—should be doing to be success-
ful today.
Standards: Why We Have Them and
Live by Them E
Have you ever designed a board but received
feedback that it couldn't be manufactured un-
less changes were made? Or maybe you've
designed a complex board and sent it to the
factory only to find out that the manufactur-
er didn't build the board to your expectations?
NCAB Group explains how PCBs are becom-
ing more complex, factory options are grow-
ing, and expectations for product life cycles are
becoming longer.
Printed Circuits Installs New Notion n.jet
Direct Solder Mask and Legend Printer E
Rigid-flex circuit board manufacturer Printed
Circuits has purchased and will install a new
Notion Systems n.jet direct solder mask and
legend ink printer.
Prototron Receives MIL-31032 and
AS9100 Certifications E
Kim O'Neil, general manager of Prototron Cir-
cuits in Tucson, Arizona, discusses the com-
pany's recent MIL-31032 certification and how
this experience prepared them for the AS9100
certification. He also explains why auditing is
a good thing for any company's processes and
highlighted some of the areas that the auditors
inspected.
AT&S and Chongqing University
Collaborate on Research and Education E
It represents a milestone for AT&S as a first
high-end IC substrates manufacturer in China
partnering with one of the universities affiliat-
ed to the Ministry of Education of China in re-
search and education excellence.
Communication, Part 2: Design Data
Packages E
Part 1 of this six-part series highlighted ways
that PCB fabricators and designers can better
communicate, starting with how to qualify a
board shop. In Part 2, Bob Chandler and Mark
Thompson talk about the importance of pre-
paring, sending, and receiving comprehensive
(and ideally, perfectly complete) design data
packages.
The Plating Forum: Update on IPC-4552
ENIG Specification Revisions E
George Milad's columns will cover PCB plat-
ing, IPC specifications, and more. In this debut
installment, he gives us an update on the IPC-
4552 ENIG specification, including Revision A
and B.
