78 The PCB Design Magazine • August 2016
Designing with Tighter Tolerances
David Ledger-Thomas is a PCB design engineer
with Honeywell Aerospace. He's spent decades
designing PCBs for a variety of applications, in-
cluding defense, aerospace, computers, and
high-performance audio. I asked David to share
some of his thoughts on designing high-tech
boards with increasingly finer spaces, traces and
pitch.
Setting a Satellite to Catch a Satellite
The target is set: a large derelict satellite currently
silently tumbling its way through low orbit. If all
goes to plan, in 2023 it will vanish—and efforts
against space debris will have made a giant leap
forward.
OKI and Avio Ink Agreement on
Transfer of PCB Business
The two companies will start negotiations on
technologies and facilities transfer and a range of
certifications from October 1, 2016 with a view
to completing the business transfer by March 31,
2018.
Zentech's Matt Turpin on IMPACT
Washington, D.C.'s Benefits
At the recent IMPACT Washington, D.C. 2016
event in Capitol Hill, Matt Turpin, CEO of EMS
firm Zentech discusses with I-Connect007's Pat-
ty Goldman his expectations on the event, its
importance, and how, so far, it has helped the
electronics manufacturing industry in the United
States.
OrbitOutlook Integrates Largest and Most
Diverse Network of Space Sensors Ever
to Help Avoid Collisions in Space
New data-gathering network aims to vastly im-
prove the capability of the U.S. military and the
global space community to make decisions about
potentially hazardous space objects in near real
time.
TTM Technologies Recognized by Raytheon
Integrated Defense Systems
TTM Technologies Inc. announced that three fa-
cilities, Santa Clara (SC), Sterling (STE), and San
Diego (SD) under its Aerospace and Defense/Spe-
cialty Business Unit were recognized by Raytheon
Integrated Defense Systems on June 7, 2016 in
two award categories for outstanding service,
partnership, and excellence in engineering col-
laboration.
Today's MilAero Options: Outsourcing—
'Everybody's Doing it' Not so True Today
There was a time, not so many decades ago, when
that most commonly-stated mantra ("lower labor
costs") behind offshoring printed circuit fab (and
some assembly) operations, still had some case-
by-case validity.
FTG Secures Licensing Agreement With
EarthOne Circuit Technologies Corporation
Firan Technology Group Corporation announces a
licensing agreement between FTG and EarthOne
Circuit Technologies Corporation, whereby FTG
will license the eSurface technology owned by
EarthOne for use in the manufacture of printed
circuit boards.
Teledyne Completes Sale of Printed
Circuit Technology Business
Teledyne Technologies Incorporated announced
today the successful completion of the sale of as-
sets of Teledyne's printed circuit technology busi-
ness (Teledyne PCT) to FTG Circuits Inc., a Califor-
nia corporation and subsidiary of Firan Technol-
ogy Group Corporation (FTG), for US$9.3 million
in cash.
Consultants to EU Publish
Recommendations on RoHS Exemptions
The Oeko-Institut e.V., Institute for Applied Ecol-
ogy and Fraunhofer-Institut IZM for Environmen-
tal and Reliability Engineering, consultants to the
European Union (EU) Commission (Commission)
recently published their recommendations on 29
requested renewals of RoHS exemptions.
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