June 2017 • The PCB Magazine 101
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Flex Talk: Squink—
Integrating Fabrication and
Assembly in One Package
When walking through
trade show expos, I
tend to be drawn into
product demonstra-
tions on the show floor.
Recently, at IPC APEX
EXPO, I stopped in front
of a piece of desktop printing equipment that was
demonstrating with a flexible circuit.
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All About Flex: FAQs for
Extended-Length
Flexible Circuits
Extended-length flexible circuits are larger than
typically offered sizes in the interconnect industry.
The length of these oversized circuits can be any-
where from two to 10 feet or longer. A long, con-
tinuous flexible circuit can offer design advantages
over using normal sized circuits.
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Ding Cheng of BYD Electronic:
Embracing the FPC Factory
Model of the Future
The topic of the third is-
sue of PCB007 China
Magazine is "The Wide
World of Flex." Around
this theme, we asked
one of the leaders of Chi-
na's FPC industry, Ding
Cheng, general manag-
er of the FPC Division of
Shenzhen BYD Electronic Parts Company, to share
his perspective about trends in flex.
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Weiner's World—
April 2017
China's economy accelerated
for a second-straight quarter
as investment picked up, retail
sales rebounded, and factory
output accelerated in March.
Gross domestic product in-
creased 6.9% in the first quar-
ter from a year earlier, compared with a 6.8% me-
dian estimate in a Bloomberg survey.
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All About Flex:
Origami Interconnection
Origami is the art of folding paper; it
was believed to have originated in
Japan, but historical evidence sug-
gests it existed in several parts of
the world during the same peri-
od. Origami artistry starts with a
flat sheet of paper and by mak-
ing a series of folds and creases, the result is
a three-dimensional figure.
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The Right Approach:
Finding the Next Generation
of 'Board Rats'
Owners of printed cir-
cuit board shops across
the country are united
in their top concern for
their businesses: finding
new talent. While this
problem crosses all indus-
tries, what is unique is the
complexity and learning
curve of our business.
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