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Jabil’s Rx for the Medical Markets, pg. 16 AUGUST 2008 circuitsassembly.com See It, Hear It Simultaneous Acoustic Imaging and Surface Mapping AUGUST 2008 – Vol. 19 No. 8 Assembly Machine Programming Stop HOP FIRST PERSON 6 Caveat Lector Two tech titans team up. Mike Buetow Lead and Lead-Free: A Bad Mix FEATURES PWB Procurement ON THE COVER: It’s now possible to map component surface topography and image internal features at the same time. 16 Talking Heads Jabil’s Tony Allan and Jeff Cavanaugh. Mike Buetow 22 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 TECH TALK Program Generation 18 Screen Printing Bigger and better. Clive Ashmore 26 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 20 Better Manufacturing Don’t rip the rep. Phil Zarrow COVER STORY 33 Tech Tips Where there’s HOP, there’s fire. American Competitiveness Institute 30 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 34 Soldering Lead and Pb-free: All mixed up. Ursula Marquez de Tino 36 Test and Inspection To the programming house. Stacy Kalisz Johnson This month at PCDandF.com Product Development Challenges in a Global Market Leveraging global development teams can help improve time-to-market and lower development costs. By John Isaac 37 Process Doctor What cleaning really does. Terry Munson 38 Pb-Free Lessons Learned Cost of ownership. Chrys Shea Qualifying PCBs Outsourced in Asia Outsourcing PCB manufacturing operations can give the OEM advantages like high-volume capacity, massive database systems and focused corporate direction. By Mumtaz Y. Bora 40 Getting Lean Reliability analysis and process variability. Ryan Wooten DEPARTMENTS 8 Industry News 14 Market Watch 44 Product Spotlight 46 Ad Index 47 Assembly Insider 42 Component Advances Molex’s Solder Charge Interface 48 Technical Abstracts Courtesy Sonoscan Inc. http://circuitsassembly.com http://PCDandF.com

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Circuits Assembly - August 2008 Contents Caveat Lector Industry News Market Watch Talking Heads Screen Printing Better Manufacturing Auditing a Fabricatior Cutting Machine Programming Time Simultaneous Acoustic Imaging and Surface Mapping Tech Tips Soldering Test and Inspection Process Doctor Pb-Free Lessons Learned Getting Lean Component Advances Product Spotlight Ad Index Assembly Insider Techincal Abstracts

Circuits Assembly - August 2008

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