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8 DESIGN007 MAGAZINE I JANUARY 2024 Our cover image for this month's issue is a great representation of the PCB development process: Design, fabrication, and assembly are all beautifully intertwined. All three disci- plines must be integrated to have a successful end product. As a result, all these stakehold- ers need to know something about the other stakeholders' processes. e axiom, "We're all in this together," comes to mind. But designers, sitting at the front end of the entire development cycle, must have more than a passing understanding of the processes downstream from them. PCB designers and design engineers need to know quite a bit about the chemical and mechanical processes taking place aer data handoff to design a circuit board that can survive manufacturing stresses and be used by the end customer. Designers should be The Shaughnessy Report by Andy Shaughnessy, I-CONNECT007 Pulling Together