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Standard of Excellence: Choosing the Right Replacement Vendor

When you have good, long-standing relationships with your PCB suppliers, you know you can trust them. You have known them for years, visited their shops, shared your PCB needs with them, and most of all, learned through experience that you can rely on the…
r to replace the one you can no longer use. 1. Refer Back to Your Original Process for Acq
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Standard of Excellence: Finding a Global Solution With Your Domestic Supplier

As the world goes global, so does the PCB industry. It is no longer sufficient to have a domestic PCB vendor; it has become critical to have a portal to offshore PCB acquisitions as well. Because there are so many variables in buying boards from a global …
anies buying set amounts of PCBs each year. 1. Buying Offshore Is Not for Amateurs You ne…100
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Standard of Excellence: How Strong Is Your Vendor Partnership?

For the past year, I’ve talked about various aspects of developing a great vendor-customer relationship with your printed circuit board fabricators, from trust to confidentiality and sharing the future. These are all good things to have in a true partners…
either of them could do alone. Here are 10 questions to ask yourself when testing the
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Standard of Excellence: Great Partnerships Are Forged in Adversity

When you’re in the PCB business, the one thing you can count on is that something will go wrong; it always does. If you have a PCB vendor that says that nothing ever goes wrong in their company, don’t trust them because they are not being honest with ...
he real number of individual shops is around 170. That…eeper and more productive relationship. 1. Have Open Communication Above all
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Selecting the Proper Flex Coverlayer Material

What is a flex coverlayer? What’s its purpose? Are they new or have they been around a while? Why do they matter to my design? Coverlayers are polymer materials used to cover and protect the copper traces of the flex circuit product. As implied, there …
fect the hole wall plating integrity. Figure 1 shows an example of flexible solder mask and…12…125 μm…12… which appeared in the August 2019 issue of PCB007 Magazine
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Standard of Excellence: Your PCB Technology Partner

There are regular PCB vendor relationships, and then there are the partnerships where you invest in future projects, such as developing processes for a new technology where you will have to share the work, responsibility, and success of the project. In sh…
theory. Here are 13 tips for creating a productive partnership …e you establish a partnership based on these 13 guidelines
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Standard of Excellence: Five Ways to Stay on Track With Your PCB Vendors

One of the most important aspects of the customer-vendor partnership is keeping your vendor aware of their standing with you. The last thing you want is to surprise your vendor by telling them you have been unhappy with their performance for the past mont…
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Standard of Excellence: When Your PCB Vendor Gets in Trouble

It happens all the time, and even in the best-run companies: Something goes wrong. One of the frustrating things about life is that you can always count on something going wrong. This is especially true in PCB fabrication, where some of the boards they fa…
of the boards they fabricate can take up to 120 process steps to build. That… PCB vendor when they run into trouble. 1. Process Issues No matter how many proc
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Standard of Excellence: Successful R&D With Your PCB Partner

Now, more than ever, we have to rely on our PCB partners to help with new product development. Back in the day, OEMs would have their own PCB fabrication houses and could develop new technologies in those houses or—in some cases—departments. Most, if not …
D relationship with your PCB partner. 1. The Right Capabilities Are they the right
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: Partnership in Challenging Times

Now, more than ever, we need to partner with one another. Traditionally, my columns have focused on developing a strong working bond with your PCB vendor partners, making sure that you and your PCB fabricators are on the same page and that you treat one a…
19 outbreak…19 outbreak.
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American Standard Circuits (ASC) and Sunstone Circuits have joined forces to become the ultimate PCB solution provider with over 50 years of combined industry experience. ASC excels in producing Ultra HDI, rigid, metal-backed/core, RF/microwave, flex, and rigid-flex PCBs for diverse industries, while Sunstone Circuits is known for quick-turn, high-quality PCBs and exceptional customer support. This strategic alliance combines ASC's certifications and expertise with Sunstone's commitment to excellence, setting a new standard in PCB manufacturing. Together, we provide full scale solutions for engineers, from design to prototype to large-scale production.
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