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I-Connect007 Editor’s Choice: Five Must-Reads for the Week

August 28, 2026 | Nolan Johnson, I-Connect007

This week, the Global Electronics Association published its monthly report on PCB fabrication and EMS bookings and shipments, and the numbers are extremely positive. In EMS, the three-month book-to-bill ratio stands at 1.29 for July. Year-to-date EMS bookings are at 11% over 2025. The picture is similar in PCB fabrication as well. Year-to-date bookings are up 33% over last year, and book-to-bill stands at 1.46.

Fresh PCB Concepts: Everything Your PCB Supplier Needs Upfront for Quoting

August 27, 2026 | Team NCAB, Fresh PCB Concepts

After more than 40 years in PCB manufacturing, I've come to appreciate that every PCB begins long before the first sheet of laminate enters a press or the first hole is drilled. A PCB’s journey begins with a request for quotation (RFQ). I’ve been involved with documentation practices since the days of 4:1-scaled and Blue & Red-taped mylars. They all underwent photo-reduction and resizing to 1:1-scale film for manufacturing, and this became our tooling package. With new media and technology involved, this process has undergone many changes, but the focus on tooling can never waver. I have learned that the accuracy of the quotation is directly tied to the quality of the information received. 

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Elementary, Mr. Watson: Inside the Display Power Loop

August 6, 2026 | John Watson, Elementary, Mr. Watson

In my previous column, I traced the evolution from fixed physical interfaces to dynamic, software-defined displays, and saw how a familiar model of input and output slowly gave way to something far more fluid. That foundation begs the...

Powering the Future: Performance Is Won in Assembly

August 5, 2026 | Brian Buyea, Powering the Future

There’s a moment in every design cycle when the conversation shifts from the elements of a substrate—material selection, thermal conductivity, circuit density, layout, and performance on paper—to how it performs in assembly. No...

Connect the Dots: Total Value Manufacturing Solutions

July 30, 2026 | Matt Stevenson, Connect the Dots

In my last column, I discussed total value management, an approach to the quality-versus-cost balancing act that integrates components of total quality management (TQM) and Lean manufacturing. Like those other methodologies, total...

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