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 Feb 01, 2019
Friday Feb 01, 2019
PCB Chat host Mike Buetow catches up on the weekly news in electronics manufacturing. This week: IPC Apex recap, Foxconn's big reversal, EMS earnings report
Sunday Jan 27, 2019
Sunday Jan 27, 2019
Sue Mucha has worked in a variety of roles for SCI, Avex, Flextronics, Xetel, Sparton and Elamax, mostly in sales and marketing at a director or executive level. She helped coin the phrase Electronics Manufacturing Services at an IPC meeting more than 25 years ago. Since 2001, she has helped EMS firms of all sizes with strategic planning through her private firm, Powell-Mucha Consulting. She speaks with PCB Chat host Mike Buetow about the recent changes to the IPC EMS Program Management Certification Program.
Friday Jan 25, 2019
Friday Jan 25, 2019
PCB Chat host Mike Buetow catches up on the weekly news in electronics manufacturing.
Friday Jan 25, 2019
Friday Jan 25, 2019
What happens when failure happens? This episode of Reliability Matters with host Mike Konrad features failure analysis investigators Eric Camden and Paco Solis. Together, they discuss stories from the field and some "interesting investigations."
Friday Jan 18, 2019
Friday Jan 18, 2019
PCB Chat host Mike Buetow catches up on the weekly news in electronics manufacturing.
Friday Jan 11, 2019
Friday Jan 11, 2019
PCB Chat host Mike Buetow catches up on the weekly news in electronics manufacturing.
Monday Jan 07, 2019
Monday Jan 07, 2019
Wally Rhines, chairman emeritus of Mentor and spokesman for the Electronic System Design (ESD) Alliance Governing Council, and Merlyn Brunken director of market intelligence at Mentor, discuss the latest PCB and semiconductor design software market results with PCB Chat host Mike Buetow.
Friday Jan 04, 2019
Friday Jan 04, 2019
PCB Chat host Mike Buetow catches up on the weekly news in electronics manufacturing.
Thursday Jan 03, 2019
Thursday Jan 03, 2019
In this new addition to PCB Chat called The Screw-Ups, we talk to experts in electronics manufacturing about specific problems they’ve encountered, and offer up some potential solutions. Episode one features Tom Forsythe, vice president of Kyzen, who deconstructs rinsing.
Thursday Dec 20, 2018
Thursday Dec 20, 2018
Reliability Matters is a new podcast from Mike Konrad of Aqueous Technologies. Konrad is an industry expert on the removal of
contamination from circuit assemblies. He has been part of the electronic assembly cleaning industry for more than 30 years and has designed several automated cleaning and cleanliness testing machines and published scores of technical articles on cleaning and cleanliness assessment. This episode of Reliability Matters features an interview with SMT guru Bob Willis.