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294 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 7 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsRecorded conversations and interviews on electronics design and manufacturing with the editors of PCD&F/Circuits Assembly, brought to you by the Printed Circuit Engineering Association (PCEA)
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RM 142: Live from SMTA's Pan Pacific Strategic Electronics Symposium (PanPac)
April 23, 2024 21:13 - 38 minutes - 52.8 MBThis episode was recorded at SMTA's Pan Pacific Strategic Electronics Symposium on the Big Island of Hawaii. Mike Konrad's guests on this episode are Dr. Chuck Bauer, founder of PanPac, Keith Bryant, and Dr. Ron Lasky. We discussed the history of PanPac, technologies introduced at PanPac, and what makes PanPac so unique. We also discuss Dartmouth College's unique engineering innovations program. Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction to the Reliability Matters Podcast 00:01:35 - Introduction...
RM 141: Component Tape Splicing Best Practices
April 15, 2024 19:17 - 57 minutes - 78.4 MBOptimization has become an important goal within the electronics assembly industry. While modern electronics assembly techniques utilize a variety of equipment, one specific type of equipment often consumes a disproportionate percentage of the overall equipment budget, that is the place machine. The cost of the machine, associated conveyors and feeders, require that the machine is running as often as possible. The airline industry refers to this as “wheels up” time. Airlines make money when...
PCB Chat 129: Electronics Design Market Update with Wally Rhines
April 08, 2024 16:00 - 15 minutes - 17.6 MBElectronic System Design (ESD) industry revenue increased 14% to $4.4 billion in the fourth quarter 2023, with printed circuit board design software leading the way, up 21% for the period. Wally Rhines, executive sponsor of the SEMI Electronic Design Market Data report, gives his quarterly update on the state of the electronics design software market.
PCB Chat 128: The Latest HDP Consortium Projects
March 17, 2024 11:05 - 24 minutes - 56.3 MBThe High-Density Packaging User Group, the nonprofit consortium of electronics manufacturers and suppliers that collaborate on various technical problems in order to reduce cost and time to market, has nearly 25 projects underway, several of which are due to be completed this year. We spoke this month with Madan Jagernauth, marketing director and project facilitator of HDP, about their current research on lead-free solder alloys, the recent conference Best Papers, and whether the consortium...
RM 139: Environmentally Responsible Alternatives to Traditional PCB Fabrication
March 14, 2024 13:41 - 55 minutes - 75.8 MBToday, we delve into an increasingly critical aspect of technology and electronics manufacturing - the pursuit of environmentally responsible electronics manufacturing. Our industry has witnessed many environmental revolutions. The elimination of popular cleaning solvents brought on by the Montreal Protocol in 1989, soon followed by strict VOC regulations pertaining to cleaning chemicals. The switch from lead-based solders to lead-free alloys, led by the Restriction of Hazardous Substance...
PCB Chat 127: Matthias Wagner on AI-Based PCB Design Tools
March 12, 2024 19:26 - 23 minutes - 54.4 MBMatthias Wagner is chief executive and cofounder of Flux, a developer of a browser-based PCB design platform and programmable simulator. When spoke with Matthias last spring, the company was introducing Flux Copilot, an AI-powered hardware design assistant. Flux Copilot uses a large language model that the company’s engineers trained and integrated into its design tool. Flux recently added vision capability to its signature tool, whereby users can upload photos of images such as block diag...
RM 138: Hand Soldering and Rework Best Practices
February 27, 2024 21:51 - 1 hour - 97.6 MBToday we're diving deep into the world of precision and craftsmanship—two crucial elements in the realm of hand soldering and rework of circuit assemblies. Whether you're a seasoned electronics enthusiast, a hobbyist, or just someone with a curious mind, this episode promises to demystify the art and science behind hand soldering and rework. We'll be exploring the latest tools, techniques, and trends that define this intricate process, shedding light on the unsung heroes who meticulously br...
RM 137: Building a Sustainable Career with a Sustainable Impact
February 20, 2024 21:03 - 1 hour - 104 MBToday, we delve into the crucial aspects of maintaining well-being on this journey — how to sidestep the notorious burnout, and perhaps more importantly, how to fuel and maintain your motivation. Because, let's face it, the road to creating a meaningful impact can be demanding, and it's essential to navigate it with resilience and purpose. Join Mike Konrad for a conversation with Rick Coulson. Rick recently retired from a 34-year career at Intel, most recently as senior fellow in the Intel ...
PCB Chat 127: David Schild on US Strategy for Supply Chain Readiness
February 14, 2024 15:24 - 21 minutes - 49.1 MBWe welcome back one of our favorite guests, David Schild, the executive director of the Printed Circuit Board Association of America. PCBAA was founded about three years ago to advance US domestic production of PCBs and base materials. The organization is made up of corporate members of all sizes, and includes fabricators, assemblers and suppliers. Schild brings us up to date on the US Department of Defense's National Defense Industrial Strategy, how industrial production is tied to militar...
PCB Chat 126: Andrew Scheuermann on AI in Electronics
February 07, 2024 21:05 - 39 minutes - 91.2 MBArtificial intelligence is perhaps the most discussed – and least understood – topic in technology today. We in electronics design and manufacturing know, of course, that automation is part and parcel of what we do. But while the landscape has changed, be it the transition from mechanical drawings to CAD tools with their autorouters, or from manual and semi-automatic printers and placement machines to lights-out factories where cobots have replaced operators, the industry still has a long, ...
RM 136: Environmentally Responsible/Sustainable Conformal Coating
January 23, 2024 19:33 - 1 hour - 88 MBReliability Matters covered the topic of ultrathin conformal coatings back in November. We covered various conformal coating materials from traditional acrylics and silicones to ultrathin parylene coatings. What other coating materials are available? Where do these types of coatings fit within specific applications? Where do health and safety, environmental concerns, and sustainability programs fit in with a coating process? To answer these other questions, Dr. Cassandra Zentner, VP of Heal...
PCB Chat 125: Manny Marcano on Spinoff of Accelerated Designs
January 23, 2024 13:41 - 15 minutes - 36.5 MBEMA Design Automation has for years been the exclusive distributor of OrCAD Cadence in North America. Through acquisitions and internal development, EMA now has a series of its own software products for library management, component supply chain data. And this year EMA announced it would spin off those CAD-agnostic products into a new subsidiary called Accelerated Designs. EMA president and founder Manny Marcano joins Mike Buetow to break down the thinking behind the new company, its produc...
PCB Chat 124: Wally Rhines on the Latest PCB Design Software Market Data
January 12, 2024 22:55 - 15 minutes - 17.4 MBPrinted circuit board and multichip module design software revenue soared 24% year-over-year to a record $426 million in the third quarter 2023, according to the ESD Alliance's latest Electronic Design Market Data (EDMD) report. ESD Alliance spokesperson Wally Rhines joins Mike Buetow to explain the latest data trends.
RM 135: Zach Peterson about Board Design Best Practices
January 09, 2024 15:42 - 1 hour - 67.7 MBIn today's increasingly connected and digital world, PCBs are the unsung heroes that power our devices, from smartphones to spacecraft. Yet, the art and science of designing these crucial components often go unnoticed. That’s where this episode comes in. Today, we shine a spotlight on the critical role PCBs play in modern technology and explore the best practices that drive innovation and reliability. In this episode, Mike Konrad tries to unravel the mysteries of PCB design, tackle comple...
RM 134 -- 2023 Podcast Season Wrap-Up
December 26, 2023 17:20 - 8 minutes - 12.2 MBEpisode 134 - 2023 Podcast Season Wrap-Up On this episode, I have no guests as this is the final episode of the Reliability Matters Podcast for the 2023 season. Instead, let's review what happened on the podcast this year. A special thanks to my guests and listeners/viewers for making this podcast so successful. Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction to Reliability Matters Podcast 00:00:12 - The Electronic Assembly Industry Techniques 00:00:26 - Review of the 2023 Season 00:00:43 - Liquid...
RM 133: Novel Wireless / Wearable ESD Monitoring
December 12, 2023 15:05 - 1 hour - 90.5 MBWe are all aware of the damage electrostatic discharge can wreak on components and electronic products. We mitigate ESD damage through various forms of monitoring. We wear wrist and heel straps, stand on ESD-safe flooring, utilize ESD workstations, and more. We even have ESD testing locations that will test a human standing on a specialized testing station. But what happens the moment that person steps off the tester? My guests today are Dr. Daan Stevenson and Dr. Jonathan Tapson of IONA Te...
PCB Chat 123: US PCB Legislation Update with David Schild of PCBAA
December 06, 2023 15:42 - 30 minutes - 70.6 MBDavid Schild is executive director of the Printed Circuit Board Association of America. PCBAA was founded in 2021 to advance US domestic production of PCBs and base materials. We discuss major investment announcements by US PCB companies, industry funding from the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, the need for intense engagement at every level of government, and the latest on the Protecting Printed Circuit Boards and Substrates Act of 2023.
PCB Chat 122: Robert Feranec on PCB Design
December 05, 2023 21:17 - 25 minutes - 57.8 MBRobert Feranec is a hardware designer with over 20 years’ experience in the electronics industry, and specializes in PCB design, signal integrity and high-speed digital design. In addition, he is also a self-described passionate content creator on YouTube, where he has developed a large series of help-guides for PCB design and electronics engineering. His company, FEDEVEL Academy, also provides courses on electronics design. We talk about autorouting, simulation tools and teaching board des...
RM 132: HZO’s Lisa Rizzo on Ultra-Thin Conformal Coating
November 29, 2023 19:03 - 1 hour - 83.3 MBToday we’ll dive deep into the world of conformal coating. More and more assemblies are being subjected to conformal coating to protect the assembly from harsh environments. What’s leading the drive to conformal coat electronics assemblies? What types of conformal coating options are available? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each type? For circuit assemblies, the protective embrace of conformal coatings ensures reliability, longevity, and performance. As technologies advance,...
RM 131: Industry Icon Bob Willis
November 21, 2023 14:21 - 1 hour - 95.3 MBWe are all aware of the supply chain issues our industry has faced. Beginning with electronic components, it has spread to so many other types of parts are industry relies on. Fortunately, it looks like we are beginning to come out the other end of the supply chain shortage. But the supply chain problems have further spread to the labor market. If you are in a position to hire people for your company, you know firsthand how difficult that process can be today. Adding to the level of labor a...
PCB Chat 121: Wally Rhines on the Latest Electronics Design Software Market Data
November 03, 2023 16:15 - 17 minutes - 39.7 MBPrinted circuit board and multichip module design software revenue increased 6.3% in the second quarter to total $369 million, according to the ESD Alliance's latest Electronic Design Market Data (EDMD) report. The four-quarter moving average for PCB and MCM, which compares the most recent four quarters to the prior four, rose 11.7%. As a whole, ESD industry revenue increased 5.3% to $3.96 billion in the second quarter from $3.76 billion in the second quarter of 2022. The four-quarter movin...
RM 130: Human-Centered Approaches to Innovation with Dr. Alexis Abramson
October 26, 2023 15:22 - 1 hour - 87.1 MBBaby Boomers are entering retirement in greater numbers. From now until 2030, 10,000 Boomers each day will hit retirement age. Millions will begin to officially retire. This is creating a terrific opportunity for young college graduates to enter our industry. Several years ago, I was a speaker at the SMTA, Pan Pacific Strategic Electronics Symposium in Hawaii. I shared my breakfast table with a longtime colleague, Dr. Ron Lasky, a professor at Dartmouth College. Over the course of breakfast...
RM 129: Network Reliability - Avoiding Cyber-Security Threats
October 11, 2023 14:01 - 1 hour - 104 MBThe Reliability Matters podcast is almost exclusively about reliability. Specifically, reliability of circuit assemblies. We discuss production best practices, design for manufacturing and reliability. Failure analysis, and more. We’ve reviewed the latest trends in industry 4.0, the connectivity of machine to machine and machine to management. We discussed big data and how to make all of our newly acquired data relevant and actionable. For all this to occur, our computers must function prope...
PCB Chat 120: HDP’s Latest PCB and Solder Research
September 15, 2023 12:00 - 32 minutes - 74 MBHDP User Group is an industry consortium made up of more than 50 leading companies that collaborate on research in order to reduce cost and time to market. Madan Jagernauth, marketing director and a project facilitator, discusses recently completed programs on low silver solder paste reliability, copper surface roughness models, the Pb-Free bare board materials project updates, and HDP's upcoming meeting in October with PCB Chat's Mike Buetow.
RM 127: Phil Zarrow and Jim Hall
September 12, 2023 21:19 - 58 minutes - 81 MBIn recent episodes, we’ve covered high-level issues, such as hiring best practices, novel, training, methods, design for manufacturing, highly accelerated, life, testing, and more. On this episode, we’re going to go back to the basics. What common problems are assemblers experiencing today? What are the basics of assembly best practices? Which problems seem to live in perpetuity? To answer these and other questions, I’ve invited two of my favorite experts on to the show. If you’ve been in t...
RM 126: Moisture Mitigation Strategies with Dan Jenkins and Rob Lowery
August 24, 2023 14:21 - 1 hour - 55.2 MBMoisture. The industrial world has been fighting moisture since the beginning of the industrial world. From a general point of view, moisture leads to issues such as Mold and mildew Rust Wood rot Damage to building materials Microbial growth And so much more. In the electronics world, moisture creates a host of reliability problems including: Popcorning Delamination of conformal coating Corrosion Electrochemical migration Adhesion degradation (such as on labels and glues) And mo...
RM 125: DFM Best Practices with Pride Industries’ Engineering Manager Andrew Williams
August 08, 2023 18:41 - 1 hour - 92.7 MBAs all of you are well aware, Reliability Matters is all about reliability, specifically reliability of circuit assemblies. One challenge that seems to be persistent within our space is design for manufacturability, or DfM. If you’re a contract manufacturer, no doubt you’ve had the experience of being asked to build a product that seems unbuildable. One example that rings true was the introduction of bottom terminated components or BTCs. BTC’s are marvelous components. Because all the lead ...
RM 124: Dave Hillman’s Amazing 3,600 Mile Kayak Journey Down the Missouri River
August 02, 2023 13:40 - 1 hour - 111 MBIndustry icon Dave Hillman completed a 3,600 mile solo kayak journey down the Missouri River. Mike Konrad spoke with Dave about the inspiration for the journey, insights gained over his four-month expedition, and how his experience as an engineer helped him prepare for this epic experience. This episode features many photographs taken by Dave Hillman on his journey. The video version showing the photographs is accessible here: https://youtu.be/7bThR5FQwHI
PCB Chat 119: David Schild on US Government Investment and Policy for PCB Manufacturing
July 27, 2023 13:40 - 26 minutes - 60.4 MBDavid Schild, executive director of the Printed Circuit Board Association of America (PCBAA), discusses the latest government policy and legislation for printed circuit board manufacturing in the US, the roadmap for government investment, the trade group's recent annual meeting in Washington, and "exposing the flaw" in the US Defense Department's procurement process. PCBAA was founded in 2021 to advance US domestic production of PCBs and base materials. The organization is made up of corpor...
PCB Chat 118: Claire Wemp, Ph.D., on Thermal Interface Materials
July 21, 2023 14:43 - 30 minutes - 70.7 MBThermal interface materials are used for heat transfer in a variety of electronics applications. On this episode of PCB Chat, Claire Wemp, Ph.D, a thermal applications engineer at DuPont, discusses TIM1 materials (and explains the difference between TIM1 and TIM2), when and where they are used, who specifies them, and how they work. Wemp is also a member of the Society Women in Electronics, and in the second half of the podcast we talk about her experience in SWE, which dates to college, D...
RM 123: Introduction to Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT) with Dr. Christopher Jackson
July 13, 2023 18:37 - 1 hour - 90.4 MBWe all strive to build products that are reliable. If you’re listening to this podcast, chances are you are concerned about or at least interested in reliability. Where does reliability start? Who is responsible for reliability? What types of reliability testing can be performed? Mike Konrad's guest on this episode will help answer these and other reliability-based questions. Dr. Christopher Jackson is a leader, engineer and logistic specialist who has helped many organizations work toward ...
PCB Chat 117: July 2023 EDA Software Market Update
July 10, 2023 14:14 - 13 minutes - 15 MBThe PCB/MCM design software market grew in the first quarter 2023, the ninth straight quarter of growth, according to the latest data from the ESD Alliance. Mike Buetow speaks with Wally Rhines, ESD Alliance spokesperson, and Merlyn Bruncken, market intelligence director with Siemens Digital Industries, about the record quarter, booming employment in the sector, and why the recovery in Japan be lagging the rest of the world.
RM 122: The Integration of AI into Inspection Systems
June 28, 2023 14:14 - 1 hour - 94.8 MBWhen it comes to circuit assemblies, defects result in one of two situations. The preferred result of a defect is to capture it on your factory floor and repair it before it ships to the customer. The second scenario is referred to as an escape. That’s when the board ships to the customer and fails in the field. This is a scenario, all assemblers dread and strive to prevent. One way to prevent escapes is through the use of automated inspection or AOI systems. Mike Konrad's guests are Arif V...
PCB Chat 116: John Watson on PCB Designer Training
June 13, 2023 21:02 - 45 minutes - 104 MBIt goes without saying finding talent is a big deal in electronics design and manufacturing. John Watson is customer success manager at Altium, with more than 20 years' experience as a senior PCB designer. Watson also teaches classes on printed circuit design at Palomar Community College in San Marcos, CA. We discuss the Printed Circuit Board Design and Advanced Printed Circuit Board Design curricula, other related courses offered at Palomar, and why he emphasizes hand routing over autorou...
RM 120: Making Reliability Training Entertaining and Effective
June 01, 2023 20:15 - 59 minutes - 81.5 MBCan reliability training be both entertaining and effective? The Manufacturing Game's Michelle Ledet Henley has a different approach to traditional training methods. Henley has worked with The Manufacturing Game since 1998 as a developer of new simulations and training material. She has traveled worldwide in her capacity as a facilitator and trainer for The Manufacturing Game and other simulations developed by Ledet Enterprises. Henley has been instrumental in developing simulations with a ...
RM 119: Quantum Mechanics Explained
May 11, 2023 17:54 - 58 minutes - 80.6 MBMike Konrad's guest is Dr. James Whitfield. Dr. Whitfield is an associate professor of physics at Dartmouth. He earned a bachelor's of science and chemistry and mathematics from Morehouse University and a Ph.D. in chemical physics from Harvard University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University in New York, Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology in Vienna and Gant University and Belgium, and he is currently an Amazon visiting academic.
PCB Chat 115: Wally Rhines on the Latest ECAD Market Data
May 10, 2023 14:49 - 18 minutes - 20.6 MBWally Rhines, the former chairman of Mentor Graphics and now spokesperson for the ESD Alliance, updates us on the latest PCB design software and semiconductor market trends (spoiler alert: sales were up again), and addresses why ECAD companies are hiring even in the face of layoffs among Big Tech. He is joined by Merlyn Brunken, director of marketing strategic planning at Siemens Digital Industries Software to provide the quarterly report, which showed gains across a number of sectors and g...
PCB Chat 114: Matthias Wagner and Kerry Chayka of Flux
April 28, 2023 16:55 - 50 minutes - 116 MBFlux says every step of the electronic design process is slow, expensive, and error-prone. The startup company’s engineers think they have a solution: a browser-based PCB design platform and programmable simulator. Matthias Wagner, CEO and cofounder, and Kerry Chayka, product expert, both veterans of PCB design with companies like Facebook and Apple, discuss the problems that led them to develop an all-encompassing tool that includes a programmable SPICE simulator for testing circuits with...
RM 118: Making ’Big Data’ Useful with Intraratio’s Ryan Gamble
April 26, 2023 14:01 - 1 hour - 110 MBThe subjects of Industry 4.0 and Big Data have been widely discussed on this podcast. What is Industry 4.0? What data is our industry collecting? And, perhaps more importantly, how can we sift through all of that data to make it useful and actionable? To help answer these and other data-related questions, Mike Konrad interviews Ryan Gamble, CEO and Founder of Intraratio. Intraratio is a company that provides on-premise and cloud hybrid software with platforms to track, manage, control, and ...
RM 117: When Residues Cause Circuit Assemblies to Fail
April 12, 2023 13:46 - 29 minutes - 40.5 MBEric Camden (lead investigator with Foresite) and Mike Konrad discuss electrochemical migration (ECM) and other failure modes caused by residues on circuit assemblies.
RM 116: Supply Chain Musings with Mark Godwin of Ventec
April 07, 2023 13:44 - 16 minutes - 22.9 MBOn this episode, Mike Konrad speaks with Mark Goodwin, COO of Ventec Europe, a supplier of copper-clad laminates and prepreg bonding materials for the circuit board fabrication industry, about supply chain challenges.
PCB Chat 113: David Schild of the Printed Circuit Board Association of America
March 31, 2023 19:42 - 29 minutes - 67 MBThe Printed Circuit Board Association of America, or PCBAA, was founded in 2021 to advance US domestic production of PCBs and base materials. The organization is made up of corporate members of all sizes, and includes fabricators, assemblers and suppliers. My guest today is David Schild, executive director of the PCBAA. We discuss government investment in printed circuit board manufacturing in the US, the just announced allocation for PCBs as part of the Defense Production Act, and how inno...
PCB Chat 112: Vivek Bansal on VVDN’s Vertical Integration Model
March 23, 2023 19:56 - 17 minutes - 40.3 MBVVDN Technologies is perhaps best known as a provider of end-to-end engineering and manufacturing of hardware, mechanical and electronic assemblies, and embedded software, among others. Founded in 2007, it now has 11 product engineering centers worldwide, plus seven manufacturing plants across India where its capabilities include SMT, injection molding, tooling, die casting, and metal stamping, among others. The company in February announced plans to invest $100 million over the next five y...
PCB Chat 111: Metallic Resources on Reclaiming Electronics Solder
March 17, 2023 04:49 - 27 minutes - 51.7 MBMetallic Resources is a developer of high purity solder for electronics applications, making paste, bar, and cored wire products, among others. Metallic Resources’ slogan is “not your typical solder,” and one big reason for that is the high purity solder it supplies. This is credited to the company’s electrolytic refining process. David Bao, Ph,D., director of New Product Development, Erik Ozan, senior manager and head of the recycling division, and Jeff Giles sales manager of Metallic Res...
RM 115: Making Sense of ’Big Data’
March 14, 2023 22:13 - 23 minutes - 32.8 MBYou don't have to be in the tech industry you understand importance and value of data. Industries have always collected various sets of data, first manually and, in modern times, automatically. The volume of data has historically been limited to the ability to capture and store it. Recent advances in technology have vastly increased the ability to capture and store data. The industry 4.0 movement has fueled both of desire and requirement to capture data. We have created a "be careful what y...
PCB Chat 110: Steve Robinson of APCT
March 14, 2023 17:56 - 19 minutes - 45.6 MBAPCT in February completed the acquisition of Advanced Circuits, a printed circuit board fabricator located in Aurora, Colorado. The acquisition nearly doubles APCT’s annual revenue, to $200 million, which immediately thrust it to the number 2 spot among PCB fabricators in North America, behind TTM. Steve Robinson, president and CEO of APCT, discusses the acquisition, the pending integration, and APCT's new responsibilities as one of the largest North American PCB fabricators with Mike Buet...
RM 114: The Remarkable Return of the Post-Reflow Cleaning Process
March 08, 2023 20:16 - 1 hour - 99 MBOn this show, we’ve discussed many aspects of the electronics assembly process. We talked about reflow, thermal management, printing, soldering materials, additives, and so much more. What do all these topics have in common? When done correctly, they all contribute to the reliability of circuit assemblies. Today, we’re going to dive into the subject of cleaning circuit assemblies after reflow. For many assemblers, the cleaning process was replaced by the use of no clean flux technology. Tim...
RM 113: Counterfeit Component Detection with Dr. Eyal Weiss
February 09, 2023 21:30 - 1 hour - 103 MBWe are all aware of the “oldest profession in the world.” Perhaps the second-oldest is counterfeiting. Whenever a product is introduced, a counterfeit version soon follows. While the electronics industry has experienced counterfeit components from its inception, recent events such as the pandemic and supply chain shortages have fueled the counterfeit industry. Statistics by the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) reveal that the counterfeiting of electronic parts in the US alone cost t...
Business Challenges with STI Electronics’ President David Raby
February 02, 2023 21:30 - 27 minutes - 37.9 MBThis episode was recorded live at the SMTA Pan Pacific Microelectronics Symposium in Hawaii. David Raby is president of Madison Alabama-based STI Electronics, a contract manufacturer for the EMS industry. David worked at the family business since he was a child and eventually took over the family business when his father (and company founder) Jim Raby retired. The electronics industry moves at the speed of light and any business within the EMS industry must learn to stay ahead of technolog...
PCB Chat 109: Wally Rhines on the PCB Design Software Market
January 31, 2023 19:52 - 9 minutes - 10.9 MBOn this episode of PCB Chat we discuss the third quarter 2022 printed circuit design software market data from the ESD Alliance, which were released Jan. 23, 2023. Our guests are Wally Rhines, who spent more than 45 years in in semiconductor and PCB design as an executive with Mentor Graphics and before that, TI; and Merlyn Brunken, whose is the longtime market intelligence director with Siemens Digital Industries, formerly Mentor. This podcast is brought to you by PCB East, the origina...