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100 I-CONNECT007 MAGAZINE I SEPTEMBER 2026 Start With the People You Have In my experience, the best team to begin this effort probably already works for you. Maintenance personnel understand how the equipment behaves and where it fails. CAM and tooling personnel understand the product, the process requirements, and much of the digital infor- mation that drives manufacturing. Most importantly, these people already understand printed circuit fabrication. That experience has considerable value. It can be easier to teach an enthusiastic maintenance or CAM employee some programming and electronics than to hire a new engineer and teach that person H A P PY'S T EC H TA L K # 5 0 Figure 1: A comparison of microcontrollers.