96 SMT Magazine • May 2017
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Managing Millennials:
Lean Champion Jeff Riedel
Emphasizes the Importance
of Mentoring
Our next manager to highlight
is Jeff Riedel, the Lean Cham-
pion at Saline Lectronics. Jeff
talks about the unique challeng-
es of dealing with and train-
ing millennials, the advantag-
es that they bring to the table,
and strategies to help develop
them into effective leaders as the older generation
leaves the workforce.
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Ray Pritchard Looks Back at
IPC's Beginning and His Role
in Getting it Started
I have known Ray Pritchard
for a long time—as long as
I've been involved with IPC, in
fact. He directed the organiza-
tion for 35 years before turn-
ing over the reins. One could
say he grew up with the organization—or vice ver-
sa. Ray was always a bundle of energy and still is,
still joking and warm, a great people person, and
I am sure he had a little something to do with the
spirit of camaraderie and cooperation that is the
hallmark of the IPC we know today.
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Successful, Long-Term Growth
at Prime Technological Services
Publisher Barry Matties sat
down with Prime Technolog-
ical Services CEO Greg Ches-
nutt at IPC APEX EXPO, to
glean how they continue to
find success and have been
able to maintain such an im-
pressive growth rate over the last four years.
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RTW IPC APEX EXPO: Ray Prasad
Discusses Revised IPC-7530
Reflow Profile Guidelines
IPC Hall of Famer Ray
Prasad, chairman of the IPC-
7530 committee, provides
an overview of the newly re-
vised IPC-7530, which pro-
vides users with guidelines
on how to successfully pro-
file and characterize PCB as-
semblies with high levels of efficiency.
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