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38 PCB007 MAGAZINE I AUGUST 2023 automatically transfer the nitric, do the rins- ing process, and transfer the nitric back. You don't need a guy with a drum and hoses. We are doing that now for other customers—we're automating that chemical handling of the strip- ping process. So, when someone is looking into acquiring a final finish line these days, what should they consider? I would do my homework and look at all the upcoming final fin- ishes. Nickel and gold are the conventional one s, but you al s o have ENEPIG, EPIG, and all these other autocatalytic golds and things coming in. It's critical to define the capacity and what you want to do with t h e l i n e e a r l y o n , because it's hard to modify aer the fact. Congratulations to you and your team on IPS's success. Thanks. It really is because of that per- sistence, waking up ever y morning, and knowing what you want to do as a business. at's one of the key things about being fabricators and tool build- ers. When I get my people out in the field, and they get to see the end-game of the prod- uct they're making, they're not just welding a piece of a frame together; they're building a system. In addition, this helps our team stay in tune and evolve with the newest manufactur- ing processes in the industry. Well said. Thank you. ank you, Barry. PCB007 cesses, the trick is to cool that tank quickly. ese have jacket coolers on them that are plate heat exchangers and will refrigerate that jacket down out of that active plating zone within an hour. We also have our latest 45-degree oscilla- tion features here, along with bump vibration. How are you offering ongoing support to your customers? All of our lines are networked into our facil- ity. So, if customers have questions or need troubleshooting sup- port, we employ two f u l l - t i m e p r o g r a m - mers who do remote training to solve prob- lems, or whatever is needed. at remote work gives us instant access to all our lines in the field. Along with the sup- port, the whole data management of that board going through a w e t p r o c e s s i s a big move for IPS to b e c o m p l i a n t w i t h Industry 4.0. It's not just what's happen- ing to the board on the front end, it's the whole turnkey chem- ical management side of things. For example, this line has a com- plete turnkey nickel dosing. ere are indi- vidual Palm controllers on every single tank and all that data is logged into the computer, so you know all your metal turns over the life of the bath. All the data from our lines at SEL are compatible and seamlessly integrated into their MES. Also, we know one of the nasty processes is stripping nickel and the NOX gas and the safety hazard with all that. So, we automated it for them. ere is a nitric holding tank that will Mike Brask, IPS president.