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August 2017 • The PCB Magazine 1 August 2017 Whelen Engineering, Two Years Later Cycle Time Reduction Through W.O.R.C. Laser Patterning and Metallization to Reduce Process Steps for PCB Manufacturing Much More! 12 28 44

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• Featured Content — Process Step Elimination & Automation
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• Column — How do You Define Process Step Elimination and Automation?
• Feature Interview — Whelen Engineering, Two Years Later
• Supply Lines Highlights
• Feature — Cycle Time Reduction Through W.O.R.C.
• Short — Happy's Essential Skills: Tip of the Month—The NIST/SEMATECH e-Handbook of Statistical Methods
• Feature Column — Why is the Developer Missing at BATM Systems' Romania Facility?
• EIN Market Highlights
• Feature — Laser Patterning & Metallization to Reduce Process Steps for PCB Manufacturing
• Short — A Robot That Grows
• Feature Column — No Missed Steps: 5S Methodology for a Smarter Workplace
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• Column — Knowledge is Power
• Column — Moving into Microvias: The Interaction of Materials and Processes, Part 1
• Short — Bringing Neural Networks to Cellphones
• Column — India Makes Manufacturing Gains to Participate in a Global Economy
• Short — Researchers Develop New Transistor Concept
• Article — High-Throw DC Acid Copper Formulation for Vertical Continuous Electroplating Processes
• Short — Soft and Stretchy Fabric-Based Sensors for Wearable Robots
• Column — Professor Plum in the Library with the Candlestick…Right?
• Short — Designing Computer Software of the Future
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