Recorded 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)
Episodes
Friday Sep 10, 2021
Friday Sep 10, 2021
Dr. Harald (Harry) Wack earned a Ph.D. in chemistry from Johns Hopkins University in 2002. He began his career at Zestron’s American headquarters, reporting to his father in Germany, Dr. Oskar Wack. This was the beginning of Harry's long journey with Zestron culminating in his ascension to President of Zestron’s parent company, Dr.O.K. Wack Chemie GmbH. Mike Konrad spoke with Harry from his headquarters in Ingolstadt, Germany.
Thursday Sep 02, 2021
Thursday Sep 02, 2021
No matter how fast product developers move, there is pressure to pick up the pace. Gowtham Ramachandran, founder of Trace, a three-year old startup company based in Toronto, has a vision for just how the industry might speed the product development cycle: a desktop "microfactory" that automates much of the development workflow.
He talks with Mike Buetow about how the new concept completely reimagines the entire product development workflow, and hints at how augmented reality might impact the future of electronics manufacturing.
Trace's website is trace.so.
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Tuesday Aug 31, 2021
Tuesday Aug 31, 2021
Terry Munson is the founder and president of Foresite, Inc. He founded Foresite in 1992, then known as CSL (Contamination Studies Laboratories, Inc.). Terry has extensive experience with how cleanliness issues are affecting product reliability for electronic hardware. He is the primary developer of ion chromatography analysis for use in the electronics manufacturing industry and is an active member of IPC. Terry’s insights have been seen in various industry trade publications, as well as at technical conferences.
It can be said, Terry marches at the front of the band, using his unique experience and cleanliness testing methods, many of which have made their way to internationally recognized standards. Terry has been quoted saying “Everything is fixable, you just have to understand what’s causing problem.” Today, we’ll attempt to understand Terry Munson as he joins Mike Konrad on this episode of the Concept to Creation Podcast.
Terry's Contact Info:
Terry Munson
Foresite, Inc.
1982 S. Elizabeth Street
Kokomo, IN 46902
USA
1-765-457-8095
Tuesday Aug 24, 2021
Tuesday Aug 24, 2021
Worthington Assembly's Chris Denney speaks about the electronic contract manufacturing business.
• How to select an appropriate contract manufacturer
• Evaluating a contract manufacturer's capabilities
• Mistakes made when selecting a contract manufacturer
• Advantages and disadvantages of selecting a US-based contract manufacturer
Chris may be contacted here:
cdenney@worthingtonassembly.com
Worthington Assembly's website:
https://www.worthingtonassembly.com
Tuesday Aug 17, 2021
Tuesday Aug 17, 2021
Tim Jensen talks about:
- Solder paste selection best practices
- Low temperature solder
- Common mistakes made when using solder paste
- Solder paste jetting / micro-dispensing
- And much more
Tim Jensen may be reached here:
Wednesday Aug 11, 2021
Wednesday Aug 11, 2021
Vincent Bedat is a mechanical engineer and recent MBA graduate of the MIT Sloan School of Management, and founder of Volthub, one the finalists for the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition. Bedat is from Zurich, Switzerland, where he graduated with a master’s in mechanical engineering from ETH Zurich.
He worked at the robotics startup Synapticon in Stuttgart, Germany, as a mechanical engineer and eventually project manager. There, he recognized inefficiencies in the ways data are shared and managed in hardware development, and conceived a platform to accelerate the rate of innovation by streamlining the procurement process.
His startup is called Volthub, and upon graduating from MIT in June, he has relocated to San Francisco to further develop the company. He can be reached at vbedat@volthub.io.
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Tuesday Aug 10, 2021
Tuesday Aug 10, 2021
STI Electronics (formally Soldering Technology International) was founded by the late Industry icon Jim Raby. Soldering Technology International became STI Electronics and was operated by Jim, David, and Ellen Raby.
Jim and Dave Raby both were awarded the prestigious IPC President‘s award. This is the first and only time a father and son have won this award.
David recounts the founding of STI and the challenges along the way. David also provides valuable advice for new entrepreneurs.
David may be reached here:
draby@stiusa.com
STI Electronics website:
https://stiusa.com
Monday Aug 02, 2021
Monday Aug 02, 2021
ECD's Mark Waterman discusses thermal profiling best practices.
• Common mistakes made when using profilers
• In-use best practices
• Common applications
Mark may be reached here:
mailto:mwaterman@ecd.com
ECD's Website:
https://www.ecd.com
Monday Jul 26, 2021
Monday Jul 26, 2021
Regular listeners know that PCB Chat us always eager to hear about what’s going on in the minds of the next-generation of engineers. A team of students from the Rochester Institute of Technology Center for Electronics Manufacturing and Assembly (CEMA) spent the past semester automating parts of the surface mount process: Carmela Stone, Ian Youngs, Ethan Broshar, Brad Brewster and Kyle Mellendorf. Along with Martin Anselm, director of CEMA and Duane Beck, visiting lecturer, they describe their so-called capstone project, which marries component sourcing, programming, robotics and electronics engineering.
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Thursday Jul 22, 2021
Thursday Jul 22, 2021
Those who read PCD&F magazine or see us online at pcdandf.com have probably come across Terry Jernberg, the face of a new column this year under the eponymously named Jernberg PI. The title hearkens back to Magnum PI, the popular detective show of the 1980s. is, of course, a play on Terry’s last name and his subject matter, power integrity. We like to think of Terry as our own investigator of noise and timing problems in the power delivery network. He speaks with Mike Buetow on this episode of PCB Chat.
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