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SMTA Bright Manufacturing Challenge Enters Its Second Year With 30 Teams

08/04/2026 | Marcy LaRont, I-Connect007
SMTA’s second annual Bright Manufacturing Challenge kicked off July 1 and will end at SMTAI in October as college students from 30 teams (nearly double from the first year) compete to build a robot from the design to fabrication to assembly. Finalists will watch as the robots they built race for the first-place award. SMTA’s Tara Dunn talks about the program and this year’s challenge, what they’ve learned, and how excited the students are to be involved.

Nolan’s Notes: The CMMC Certification Question Mark

08/04/2026 | Nolan Johnson -- Column: Nolan's Notes
About a year ago, the Global Electronics Association published a report, “Interconnected: Global Electronics Trade in an Age of Disruption,” which made a convincing case that the electronics industry is the most globally interconnected industry on the planet. But those digital connections come with a warning label: Storing and transferring large amounts of intellectual property means facing data security challenges we’ve never seen before.

The Chemical Connection: When History Repeats Itself on Diversification

08/04/2026 | Don Ball -- Column: The Chemical Connection
Diversification, as a way to spread out risks, maintain steady cash flows, and sustain stable earnings in unpredictable business environments, is a concept that has long been used by all businesses, not just PCB fabrication. Is it really a sound business approach? With the benefit of 20/20 hindsight afforded by over 50 years of experience in the PC fab business, I have formed some definite opinions and observations on this subject, which I will now share with you (with some caveats).

NextNav, Safran Demonstrate 5G PNT Interoperability

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Punching Out: M&A Deals in North American PCB and EMS Sectors for the First Half of 2026

07/30/2026 | Tom Kastner -- Column: Punching Out!
Mergers and acquisitions deals in the EMS and PCB sectors in North America in the first half of 2026 were pretty slow for a while, and then, boom, a bunch of deals were announced in May and June, and even more in July. In fact, I hadn’t heard of one deal in the PCB space until June. It is not difficult to understand why deals were moving slowly so far in 2026. The conflict in Iran, higher oil prices, and economic uncertainty contributed to the lack of deal flow.
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