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WASTE MANAGEMENT
Managing Your Environmental Waste
Electronics manufacturers create many types of waste within a facility, and understanding environmental regulations can be cumbersome. Users can stay informed through workshops, websites and environmental compliance updates, with the overall goal to understand if specific waste is hazardous or nonhazardous and how to properly dispose of it.
by Scott Mazur

LASER DEPANELINGLAZER DEPANELING
Depaneling of Circuit Boards
Standard panel sizes simplify fabrication processes and sometimes can also benefit assembly when multiple boards can be processed as one item. There are multiple solutions for removing.
by Ahne Oosterhof and Thomas Nether

FIRST PERSON

• CAVEAT LECTOR
  You deserve a break today.
  Mike Buetow

MONEY MATTERS

• ROI
  No end to talk on finishes.
  Peter Bigelow
  

• FOCUS ON BUSINESS
  Where do we go from China?
  Joseph Fama
  
  

TECH TALK

• ON THE FOREFRONT
  Fanning out at ECTC.
  E. Jan Vardaman
• TEST AND INSPECTION
  Making rejects disappear (sort of).
  Robert Boguski
• GETTING LEAN
  The sixth ‘S’ of the Lean enterprise.
  James Fowler