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57 Contestants only had 45 minutes to rework a functional electronics assembly at the IPC Hand Soldering and Rework Competition in Nagoya, Japan, in October 2022. First place went to Masaki Nakamichi, Panasonic Corporation, who received a cash prize of $500, and qualified for the world championships in Munich the following month. Second place: Yuki Mayashita, FUJIFILM Healthcare Manufactur- ing Corporation; third place: Nao Morita, Advantest Corporation. Felicitations to Thalès Etrelles for sending three winners to IPC's Hand Soldering Competition in October 2022 at SMTConnect in Nuremberg:: Eliane Chesnais, David Gasnier, and Magali Edin. At the IPC Hand Soldering Competition in Tallinn, Estonia, in October 2022, there were 31 competitors. The Best Company Team Award went to (left to right): Timmo Antso, Ave Esko, and Siret Kegel, Scanfil Pärnu (Estonia). They are joined by Philippe Léonard, IPC Europe managing director. The Importance of Hand Solding "In electronics production, machines long ago replaced soldering done by hand. But it is impossible to fully replace the personal skill in soldering because solder joints made by machines still might require rework and correction by hand. There are still a few components that outmatch the automatic process. In our case, these hand skills are even more important because we work only on prototypes, and automatic production processes are not always available for this phase. It is important for us to save prototype boards to use when we need to practice making them operative." —Pascal Levivien, Dassault Aviation