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4 DESIGN007 MAGAZINE I JULY 2024 FEATURE INTERVIEWS The Need for Cross-disciplined PCB Designers with John Watson Exploring the Interdisciplinary World of Mechatronics with Dylan Nguyen FEATURE ARTICLE Keys to Successful ECAD-MCAD Collaboration by Stephen V. Chavez FEATURE COLUMNS Mechatronics: Designers Need to Know It All by Andy Shaughnessy PCB Design and IPC-CFX for Assembly Automation by Vern Solberg Mechatronics in a Flex World by Joe Fjelstad 10 16 30 8 40 54 JULY 2024 • FEATURE CONTENTS In this issue, our expert contributors discuss the advent of mechatronics in PCB design, the challenges and opportunities this creates for PCB designers, and the benefits—to the employee and the company—of becoming a mechatronics engineer. Mechatronics 10 8 30 16