36 SMT007 MAGAZINE I JANUARY 2026
2025 EDITOR'S PICKS
I-Connect007 publications strive to provide you,
our audience of readers, with content you'll want to
share. Which articles, columns, podcasts, and vid-
eos were the most interesting to you? In 2025, we
saw that you remain engaged in real people stories,
workforce issues, and how to best approach tech-
nology and process challenges. Designers remain
focused on SI. PCB fabricators are focused on tech-
nology and EMS is focused on geographic market
expansion amidst uncertainty. Here's a selection of
the most popular I-Connect007 items from 2025
across the electronics manufacturing value chain.
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Building a Manufacturing Career at DIS
With backgrounds ranging from computer
science to military service, Ryan Moore
and Emily Telesca share their unique perspectives
on building a meaningful career in manufacturing.
J.A.M.E.S. Explores the Future of
Additive Manufactured Electronics
Andreas Salomon is chief scientist at
J.A.M.E.S, a joint venture of Nano Dimension and
HENSOLD. In this interview, he discusses the
evolving landscape of additively manufactured
electronics.
UHDI Fundamentals: UHDI Technology
and Quality 5.0
Quality 5.0 takes the prior evolution a
step further by emphasizing the synergy between
human and artificial intelligence to improve
decision-making in quality management. It aims to
augment human capabilities with digital tools.
Staying on Top of Signal Integrity
Challenges
In this interview, we asked Kris Moyer to
discuss the trends he's seeing in signal integrity
today, the SI challenges facing PCB designers,
and his go-to techniques for controlling or
completely eliminating SI problems.
Advanced Packaging-to-Board-Level
Integration: Needs and Challenges
We present an excerpt from the Global
Electronics Association white paper of the same
name by Devan Iyer and Matt Kelly.
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The Marketing Minute: Go Big or Go
Home—Long-form Content Is Your
Brand's Best Friend
Brittany Martin wants you to think of short-form
content as the appetizer: engaging and easy to
digest. Long-form is the main course.
Dan's Biz Bookshelf: 'The Sale'
In this book review, Dan Beaulieu says
that The Sale goes beyond sales tech-
niques. It's a guide to understanding what drives
success in business and life.
Connect the Dots: How to Avoid Five
Common Causes of Board Failure
Matt Stevenson has seen most of the
reasons for board failure. In his experience, while
some issues are out of left field and unfore-
seeable, most board failures are the result of
common issues with design.
Standard of Excellence: Speed vs.
Quality in Customer Service
In our industry, there's a challenging
balancing act between speed and quality, says
Anaya Vardya. Think tight deadlines, high expec-
tations, and a demand for immediate responses.
Smart Automation: The Power of Data
Integration in Electronics Manufacturing
In this column, Josh Casper, explores why
integrating machine data is critical for efficiency,
quality control, and predictive analytics, and how
manufacturers can use automation to overcome
these challenges.
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