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graphs, charts, and highlighted tables so that you can explain it to your non-technical boss or cus- tomer. You can show them the pic- tures. Who doesn't love pictures? We have some tables that show, "You failed at this level, you passed at this level." Sum- marized, we have box plots that show the spread and distribu- tion passes and fails. It's a very concise way of looking at the data and it can be understood by pretty much anybody. This report can then ship with your boards and the receiving inspector can look at it and know what he is looking at. That is some- thing we have spent a lot of time thinking about and working on. Bob, Andrew, this is an exciting new test technology and timely for where we are today in the technology arc of PCB, PCBA, and substrates. Do either of you have any final thoughts? Neves: It's always hard for some- one to make a change when they've been doing something the same way since they started their business. The driver right now will be customers saying, "You have to do this." I'm hoping that, as things move on, people will start seeing the value of it and it will not be the customer driving it anymore. It will be propelled for- ward in the market because the fabricator believes, "I can save money by running this test and understanding my materials and processes, making sure my boards will be reliable in the field, that they will survive the assem- bly process, that my custom- ers will be happy." It is not just shipping them a green board but shipping them something that the manufacturer knows will get through their customer's assem- bly process and into the field, and they'll never hear about it again. That part of the ramp-up will take some time. But as this becomes more prominent, just like other newer processes that are starting to be widely used, it will become a normal part of the way people are doing business in the circuit board industry. Congratulations, Bob Neves, on this equipment, 40 years in the making. Andrew, do you have any final thoughts from a GEN3 perspective? Naisbitt: This is just a very excit- ing time. We have a lot going on. We had six major announce- ments made in the first five months of this year, HATS² tech- nology being one of them. We're looking at a lot of areas of the business with different reve- nue streams and how we can grow them. For example, in the UK, we've partnered with Zestron and are positioning ourselves to be a cleaning hub in the UK, with the knowledge surrounding that and, of course, all our standards development work which ties in. For now, we have a strategy and action plan. We are kicking off HATS² with our first one and work- ing to get the message out to the industry. It's here. The technology is like nothing before. It is needed at this time, and we can help. Congratulations again, and good luck to you both as you go forward.