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EMS TOP 50
Automotive and Automation
In a year of stalled outsourcing – even mighty Foxconn took a step back – two sectors continued to drive EMS forward. Who were 2016’s individual winners and losers?
by Mike Buetow

DISPENSING
Improved Maintenance and Reliability for Large-Volume Underfill Processes
Noncontact streaming technology has brought a new level of robustness to the high-volume underfill process. With no z-axis motion required, streaming has mitigated the effects from needles required in auger dispensing, and removed parts’ wear-and-tear from the equation.
by Sunny Agarwal

FIRST PERSON

• CAVEAT LECTOR
  Acquiring minds.
  Mike Buetow

MONEY MATTERS

• ROI
  Doom and boom.
  Peter Bigelow
  

• GLOBAL SOURCING
  Procurement solutions.
  Greg Papandrew

TECH TALK

• GETTING LEAN
  A dual Kanban approach.
  Jim Barnes and Dan Camp
• TEST AND INSPECTION
  Testing our patience.
  Robert Boguski
• DEFECTS DATABASE
  Gang green.
  Martin Wickham