Anecdotally we’ve known for some time that North America has been reestablishing itself as the hub of the electronics industry. While China struggles to maintain its recent gains, simultaneously fighting to keep a hold on skyrocketing wages while placating its restless middle class, competitors are happily picking off manufacturing with enticements of legal protections and worker stability that the Beast of the East lacks the will or means to provide.

Developing Lean cells in the so-called “fat” electronics assembly factory.

If the tooling block is too high, the print can be affected.

Poor reflow profiling can contribute to void-related shorts.