SMT007 Magazine

4 SMT Magazine • May 2016 This month, SMT Magazine features strategies to help reduce handling errors and improve efficiencies in your assembly lines. Reducing Handling Errors Strategies to Reduce Handling Errors in Your Rework Process Interview with Donald Naugler EMS Rules of Automation & ROI by Michael Ford Making Systems Smarter to Gain Visibility, Traceability, and Reduce Handling Errors Interview with Bjorn Dahle Reducing Setup Time to Provide More Uptime in Production Interview with Bob Bouchard How Far Does it Make Sense to Automate? by Michael Hansson 12 20 32 46 64 May 2016 • Featured Content 32 20 64 12 46 M A G A z I n E

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• Featured Content — Reducing Handling Errors
• More Content
• Column — Strategies to Reduce Handling Errors
• Feature Interview — Strategies to Reduce Handling Errors in Your Rework Process
• Supply Lines Highlights
• Feature — EMS Rules of Automation & ROI
• Short — NASA Investigates 3-D Printing for Building Densely Populated Electronic Assemblies
• MilAero007 Highlights
• Feature Interview — Making Systems Smarter to Gain Visibility, Traceability, and Reduce Handling Errors
• Short — Micro-sized, Liquid-metal Particles for Heat-free Soldering
• EIN Market Highlights
• Feature Interview — Reducing Setup Time to Provide More Uptime on Production
• Short — Engineers Fabricate Fastest Flexible Silicon Transistor
• Column — The Henry Ford Division of Labor Production Model
• Feature — How Far Does it Make Sense to Automate?
• Article — Flexible Circuit Component Assembly...and a Math Lesson
• Short — Breakthrough with New Generation Robots
• Column — Selecting a Selective Soldering System, Part 2
• Interview — Electrolube: We Like Problems (Chinese Style)
• Top Ten Recent Highlights from SMT007
• Events Calendar
• Advertiser Index and Masthead