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28 PCB007 MAGAZINE I DECEMBER 2024 younger engineers without the experienced mentors to turn to, but they are from a gener- ation that readily engages with new technol- ogies. e suite of products XACT offers can rapidly increase the value they provide to their respective companies. How long does it take to develop a product like this? Any product development is arduous, laborious, and money-intensive. It certainly is. We were naive when we started out. We thought that we had a product and we would just go out into the market and sell it. But early on, as we visited fabricators, we would see completely different machines and ERP systems. We had to write interfaces for all of them. What we found was that we had to become an integrator as much as a developer of registration soware so that we could hook everything together with a central system con- trolling it all. Andrew, what is your InGeniusX product? It made me think of CFX. e InGeniusX builds on what we've already talked about. e GX system takes those mea- surements, and Xplain allows the user to do custom queries. e InGeniusX system is con- stantly monitoring. It takes the data in and compares it to what it's seen before, looking for discrepancies. If something has changed, it starts firing out warnings that something has changed. But it's not just taking measurements at one point in the process; it's taking them every- where it's possible to take measurements. For instance, at the post-etch punch, it can monitor the back-to-back registration on the cores. It can monitor stress relief through the etch process. If you make 100 cores of the same design, you should have 100 measure- ments. If you find 50 slightly bigger, then something's different about those 50 cores. It can spot something that's non-transparent but not random. InGeniusX sees systematic changes sooner and alerts someone because you're going to take those 100 cores and mix them with another 300 or 400 cores to make 10-layer boards and so on. Do you really want to do that? Maybe 50 of those should be stopped and parked. It's a really important step, but it's also