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NOVEMBER 2025 I PCB007 MAGAZINE 9 I'm off to productronica this month with Barb Hockaday, our business development manager, and Pete Starkey, our stalwart partner. We are look- ing forward to a great trade show and hope to see many of you there. We will be sharing all we learn in upcoming I-Connect007 publications, so stay tuned. Before I close, I'd like to take a moment to thank everyone who makes our coverage of the elec- tronics industry possible—our regular and guest contributors, our advertising partners, our incredi- ble sta , and, of course, our readers. We recognize the time, effort, and financial commitment it takes to succeed in this industry, and we're truly grateful for the partnerships we've built with you along the way. PCB007 Marcy LaRont is the managing editor of PCB007 Magazine and executive director of IPC Publishing Group. Marcy started her career in PCBs in 1993 and brings a wide array of business experience and perspective to I-Connect007. To contact Marcy, click here. M A RCY 'S M U S I N G S invaluable, and I'm grateful for their vision, efforts, and their partnership. I encourage you to take a moment to reach out and thank them for their dedi- cation to the industry. Also in this issue, Dan Feinberg provides an inter- esting discourse on agentic AI. Shane Whiteside of PCBAA talks about American manufacturing supply chain security and sustainability. Mike Carano provides the second installment of his two-part column series on ICD defects, and Simon Khesin of Schmoll explains the finer points of flash cutting and why it matters so much today. I have included my article on substrates and inter- posers that appeared in the October issue of the Advanced Electronics Packaging Digest newslet- ter, as well as including a new section: "Where does this leave the PCB?" Click on the banner below to subscribe to our monthly Advanced Electronics Packaging Digest. Finally, I put a focus on Summit Interconnect Chicago's site, where I sat down for a lively discus- sion with General Manager Deepak Makwana, Business Development Manager Tom Veitch, and Vice President of Technology Gerry Partida, who provided valuable insight into one of the U.S.'s top fabricators.