106 The PCB Magazine • June 2016
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Happy's Essential Skills:
Technical Writing
Technical writing is one
of those topics that they
don't really talk about
in college—at least not
where I went. Writing
and English has never
been a strong like of
mine compared to sci-
ence and math. So I
did my required time in
English and wrote my lab reports the best I knew
how.
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Weiner's World
3D printing, China's
SMT equipment and
robotics markets, IPC's
mandate, counterfeit-
ers, and Taiwan PCB
makers' shift to automo-
tive electronics—Gene
Weiner talks about these
things and more in this
new article.
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'Can Do' in CAM Outsourcing:
A Case for Outsourcing CAM
Engineering
In the West, outsourcing is
sometimes considered taboo
and many believe it is one
of the causes for shifting our
manufacturing base to the
East—specifically China and
other lower cost Asian coun-
tries. In this series of columns,
I will make a case in support of CAM outsourc-
ing—especially for North American and Western
European PCB manufacturers.
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KCA Electronics and MEI
Acquired by HCI;
Shane Whiteside Named
President and CEO
HCI Equity Partners (HCI), a
middle market private equity
firm based in Washington
D.C., announced today that
it has acquired both KCA Elec-
tronics in Anaheim, CA and
Marcel Electronics Internation-
al (MEI) located in Orange, CA
in separate stock transactions.
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