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How 3D Printing will
Impact PCB Fabrication
In the near future, we will enter an era where elec-
tronic devices are printed, rather than assembled.
They will be fabricated layer-by-layer as a single
object, rather than assembled from separate me-
chanical, electrical, and optical parts. This article
describes the implications that 3D printing will
have on PCB manufacturing.
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Material Witness: Low-Flow
Prepregs—Defining the Beast!
The term "low flow" should make sense to both
suppliers and users of the products. a low-flow
prepreg flows sufficiently to wet out and adhere
to bonding surfaces and to fill innerlayer copper
details, but does not flow so much as to fill in
cut-out areas in a heat sink or run unevenly out of
the interface between rigid and flexible elements
of a rigid-flex PwB.
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Raising a Unified Voice for
an Advanced Manufacturing
Economy
The electronics manufacturing industry is an im-
portant sector in the global economy, and John
Hasselmann, VP of Government relations at IPC, is
an advocate for policies that will help our industry,
as well as the prosperity and welfare of billions of
people.
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Reliability and Harmonization
of Global Standards at
Forefront of EIPC Efforts
at IPC aPex exPo 2015, I-Connect007 Technical
editor Pete Starkey caught up with eIPC's Michael
weinhold and alun Morgan, who were happy to
discuss both recent and ongoing focuses for eIPC,
namely, reliability. also touched on was the impor-
tance of the alignment of global standardization
processes, especially for asia.
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