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6. Goldratt, Eliyahu, The Goal, North River
Press, Great Barrington, MA, 1984.
7. The Art of Service's Lean Manufacturing
Toolkit
8. Whelen Engineering Reduces Cycle Time
by Building a New Automated PCB Factory, by
Barry Matties and Bryan Bernas, The PCB Maga-
zine, October 2015.
9. The 21
st
Century PCB Factory-Designed to
Eliminate Offshore Cost Advantages, by Alex St-
epinski, The PCB Magazine, June 2016.
10. "The Way to Lean." Online webinar,
Lean Enterprise Institute.
Happy Holden has worked in
printed circuit technology since
1970 with Hewlett-Packard, NanYa/
Westwood, Merix, Foxconn and
Gentex. He is the co-editor, with
Clyde Coombs, of the recently
published Printed Circuit Handbook, 7th Ed.
To contact Holden, click here.
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Figure 5: Recovery and regeneration of chemicals for processes, along with total recycle of water,
including hermetically sealed ventilation system s provide for a rapid ROI.
