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August 2008 Issue

PWB Procurement
Auditing a Fabricator
Bare boards, be they prototype or production, involve distinctly different buying patterns and requirements, and with them, issues OEM purchasers should be aware of. What engineering and procurement should know.
By Zulki Khan
Program Generation
Cutting Machine Programming Time
Online programming costs companies a fortune. But how does one create machine programs and have them run perfectly once they get to the machines? This novel process instructs how to avoid repeated online debugging.
By Edward Faranda
Cover Story
Simultaneous Acoustic Imaging and Surface Mapping
A new development in acoustic micro imaging makes it possible to map component surface topography at the same time that internal features are imaged. Combining the methods reveals not only the anomaly, but the extent of 3-D distortion.
By Tom Adams

Screen Printing
Bigger and better.
Clive Ashmore
Better Manufacturing
Don’t rip the rep.
Phil Zarrow
Tech Tips
Where there’s HOP, there’s fire.
American Competitiveness Institute
Soldering
Lead and Pb-free: All mixed up.
Ursula Marquez de Tino
Test and Inspection
To the programming house.
Stacy Kalisz Johnson
Process Doctor
What cleaning really does.
Terry Munson
Pb-Free Lessons Learned
Cost of ownership.
Chrys Shea
Getting Lean
Reliability analysis and process variability.
Ryan Wooten
Component Advances
Molex’s Solder Charge Interface
Technical Abstracts

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On the cover: It’s now possible to map component surface topography and image internal features at the same time. (Courtesy Sonoscan Inc.)

The CA Blog - Musings on Electronics Assembly

A View of the Orb
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IPC Hall of Shame
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Goodbye, Sean
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Rust Never Sleeps
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Give Me Patent Liberty
Nathan Myhrvold is smarter than me, but he still doesn’t get it. Or perhaps just doesn’t want to. Myhrvold, the…

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