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66 PCB007 MAGAZINE I MAY 2018 Article by Happy Holden I-CONNECT007 I had the good fortune to speak at a seminar sponsored by the CPCA and organized by the China Team of I-Connect007 in Shanghai on March 22. This full-day seminar was on one of today's hot topics, "Automation in PCB Manu- facturing." Seven talks were given: 1. "Planning More Automation (of HDI) In Your Factory," by Happy Holden, I-Connect007 2. "The Benefits of Deploying Robots and its Application in Manufacturing," by Wen-Tao Bao, Universal Robots 3. "Whelen PCB as an Example of Industry 4.0," by Jochen Zeller, AWP 4. "HANS Lasers in PCB Fabrication," by Guo-Dong Chen, Han's Laser Inc. 5. "Using Raw Data to Develop an Intelligent Manufacturing Solution for Process Control," by Les Sainsbury, Xact PCB Ltd. 6. "Essential Process Control of Automated HDI," by Happy Holden, I-Connect007 7. "Whelen PCB—A Case Study of Full Automation and Zero Effluent," by Happy Holden, I-Connect007 First Presentation I started off the seminar with a keynote on automation technology and strategies. Auto- mation has been employed in manufacturing since the early '80s and pioneered by the au- tomotive industry and the Computer and Au- tomated Systems Association of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (CASA/SME). CASA has publicized the strategy and called it CIM— computer-integrated manufacturing. CIM has seven key areas of focus: 1. Computer-aided design 2. Group technology 3. Manufacturing planning and control 4. Robotics 5. Automated material handling 6. Computer-aided manufacturing/ process control 7. Computing technologies coordinating all of these CPCA 2018 Seminar Overview