112 The PCB Magazine • December 2015
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Barry Matties and Bryan
Bernas: Whelen Engineering
Reduces Cycle Time by
Building a New Automated
PCB Factory
the future of american
manufacturing might
be found in the small
community of charles-
town, new hampshire,
at Whelen engineering.
a company founded
and headquartered
in connecticut in the
1950s, Whelen is a leading manufacturer of all
things relating to emergency lights and sirens for
the automobile and aviation industries.
2
Alun Morgan:
Fire Retardancy:
What, Why and How
Flame retardants are
compounds, which
when added to materi-
als during or after man-
ufacture, inhibit or sup-
press the combustion
process.
3
Tarja Rapala-Virtanen, et al:
Next-Generation Ultra-Thin
HDI PCB Manufacturing
Challenges
high-density intercon-
nection (hdI) pcB tech-
nology is advancing to
enable increased minia-
turization and function-
ality of products such
as smartphones, tablet
computers and wearable
devices.
4
Dr. Jon Harrop:
Opportunities for 3D Printed
Structural Electronics
today's 3d printers have
many limitations, but
the boundaries are being
pushed and exciting de-
velopments are continu-
ously being made. One
of the most promising
recent developments in
the world of 3d printing
is multimaterial printing…
112 The PCB Magazine • December 2015
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