PCB007 Magazine

6 The PCB Magazine • August 2017 SHORTS Happy's Essential Skills: Tip of the Month—The NIST/ SEMATECH e-Handbook of Statistical Methods A Robot That Grows Bringing Neural Networks to Cellphones Researchers Develop New Transistor Concept Soft and Stretchy Fabric-Based Sensors for Wearable Robots Designing Computer Software of the Future DEPARTMENTS Career Opportunities Events Calendar Advertisers Index & Masthead ARTICLE High-Throw DC Acid Copper Formulation for Vertical Continuous Electroplating Processes by Saminda Dharmarathna, Ivan Li, Maddux Sy, Eileen Zeng, Bob Wei, William Bowerman, and Kesheng Feng COLUMNS How do You Define Process Step Elimination and Automation? by Patty Goldman Knowledge is Power by Tara Dunn Moving into Microvias: The Interaction of Materials and Processes, Part 1 by Michael Carano India Makes Manufacturing Gains to Participate in a Global Economy by John Mitchell Professor Plum in the Library with the Candlestick...Right? by Keith M. Sellers HIGHLIGHTS Supply Lines EIN & Market News MilAero007 Top Ten PCB007 80 8 64 70 76 90 26 42 62 102 37 57 74 78 89 92 94 104 105 90 August 2017 More Content 64 76

• Cover
• Featured Content — Process Step Elimination & Automation
• More Content
• 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
• MilAero007 Highlights
• 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
• Career Opportunities Section
• Top Ten Recent Highlights from PCB007
• Events Calendar
• Advertiser Index and Masthead
• Back Cover