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DECEMBER 2024 I PCB007 MAGAZINE 29 " Is it something that you just need to monitor carefully going forward, or is it something you need to stop? " a leap of faith for the engineer. For an engineer to say, "I'm going to throw those 50 cores in the bin because a soware system told me to," they really must buy into and trust the sys- tem. And the system has to have enough data to really understand what's happening. Is this CFX? CFX is for assembly. ere's no equivalent in bare PCBs. It is something that is missing and needed, but getting all the players to sit down and agree on a standard and work to it will be difficult. I've learned so much about standards over the past year. That is a key point. PCB fabricators also must get together and agree on some things to move forward. It feels like the time is now. We must move forward incrementally. at's exactly it. Somebody can come up with a great system that is maybe 98% there. at would be a huge step forward. Don't hold back for that 2%. Move it forward to the 98% mark and keep working on it. Standards are living things. Exactly, and we don't have the luxury of time to wait for perfection. When we talk about continuous process improvement, InGeniusX seems increasingly valuable as we build more technology into our printed circuit boards, making them very expensive to scrap, even at the inner layer stage. at's it. It's also about discerning how criti- cal something is. Is it something that you just need to monitor carefully going forward, or is it something you need to stop? Do you need to make a subtle adjustment to the processes to handle the issue? Or is it something we have to manage coming into future production devel- opment? If we take 100 panels of measure- ments, we can find if there are actual groups in there, and you can then separate them down to 30 panels. You would know to drill those 30 panels with this scale, and those 30 panels with this scale, and so on. It's taking those three streams of product and bringing them slowly back to sameness. How have these products been received in the marketplace? It has been good. Again, it comes down to one's readiness to implement each level of the entire system. Most people would not take a fully intensive control system as a first step. Have you received any customer feedback? Are you able to fold that back into the development and improvement process? at is key to our system. We send our engi- neers onsite as oen as possible to talk to the engineers and to understand first-hand their problems on a day-to-day basis. e informa- tion we've gathered across the globe helps us improve our knowledge base and improve our products. If somebody comes up with a great idea, then we'll take that onboard and every- body benefits.