October 2016 • The PCB Magazine 81
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Happy's Essential Skills:
CIM and Automation Planning,
Part 1
There is a lot of talk
and information
about automation,
but I find that there
is very little avail-
able on automation
planning. This is
one of my special-
ties. I started by getting a master's in EE in control
theory. This went well with my B.S. in chemical
engineering as I specialized in process control and
IC manufacturing.
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Printed Circuits, Inc. Hires
Ed Andrews as
Director of
Quality Systems
Rigid-flex circuit board manu-
facturer Printed Circuits Inc.
has hired Ed Andrews as their
director of quality systems.
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Happy's Essential Skills:
CIM and Automation Planning,
Part 2—Six Principles of
Automation
In Part 1 of this
column, I dis-
cussed the foun-
dation of CIM
and the princi-
ples of automa-
tion planning. In
Part 2, we will as-
sume that all the
necessary preparations in strategy and tactics have
been completed. How does it all fit together for
successful implementation? This problem affects
large, wealthy companies as well as the smallest
job shop.
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Standard of Excellence:
Communication Breeds Success
We all need to talk to one
another. You need to work
closely with your custom-
ers. And we all need to
work with the new genera-
tion of PCB designers and
design engineers, many of
whom have never set foot
in a board shop. Fortunately, they make up for
their lack of DFM knowledge with their hunger for
information.
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Sunstone Circuits Announces
RF/Microwave Capabilities
Sunstone Circuits
has announced the
addition of RF/mi-
crowave materials
(high speed/low loss) for 1- and 2-layer boards.
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Continuous Roll-process
Technology for Transferring
and Packaging Flexible
Large-scale Integrated Circuits
A research team
led by Profes-
sor Keon Jae Lee
from KAIST and
by Dr. Jae-Hyun
Kim from KIMM
has jointly devel-
oped a continu-
ous roll-process-
ing technology
that transfers and packages flexible large-scale
integrated circuits.
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