December 2016 • The PCB Magazine 85
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electronica 2016
Impressions
Germany's third-largest city, and capital of the
southeastern state of Bavaria, Munich was once
more the host to electronica, which can justifiably
claim to be the world's leading trade fair for elec-
tronic components, systems and applications.
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Weiner's World
This year's TPCA (Taiwan Print-
ed Circuits Association) show
held October 26–28 seemed to
have lighter attendance than
last year. Robots were on dis-
play everywhere, with lot of
loaders and unloaders as well as
the multi-axis, multipurpose types.
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Walt Custer's Global
Market Outlook
With 2016 winding down,
Walt Custer shared his
end-of-the-year market re-
search data with me at the
recent electronica trade
show in Munich, Germa-
ny. In our interview, Walt
breaks down his findings and offers insight into
the changing trends as we head into 2017.
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IPC Standards Committee Reports–
Printed Board Design, Testing,
Flex Circuits, High-Speed/
High-Frequency, Rigid Printed Boards
These standards com-
mittee reports from
IPC's 2016 Fall Com-
mittee Meetings have
been compiled to help keep you up to date on IPC
standards committee activities. This is the first in a
series of reports.
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All About Flex:
Specifying a Flexible Circuit
IPC has created a speci-
fication document, IPC
6013, which is refer-
enced for many flex cir-
cuit applications. This
commercial document,
in combination with
the CAD data and print, is used as the product
specification. Most flexible circuitry fabricators' in-
ternal quality standards are based on IPC 6013.
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Lenthor Engineering Adds
Salina Galindo-Luna to their
Executive Team
California based design-
er, manufacturer and
assembler of rigid-flex
and flex printed circuit
boards, Lenthor Engi-
neering, announces the
addition of the newest
member of their execu-
tive staff, Salina Galindo-
Luna. In her new position, Salina will help Lenthor
improve their services by streamlining production
processes and eliminating waste to promote sus-
tainable change.
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