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2 The Printed Circuit Technology Industry
2 The Printed Circuit Technology Industry
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While many concerns are shared by the many manufacturers, suppliers, technologists, and traders that make up the printed circuit industry, many of these same parties also have conflicting beliefs on whether current trends are good or bad. A parallel observation is that very few generalizations can be made about the markets for printed circuit technology other than to say that applications are ubiquitous and growing.
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Many industry consultants also believe that the remaining companies in the United States, 2 Most of these companies had been participating members of the Association Connecting Electronics Industries (known as IPC) , an industry trade association, and the now-defunct Interconnection Technology Research Institute (ITRI)
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Fewer countries have a producer in the global top 10, and there are no longer any outliers to be captured 3 MIL-PRF-31032 is the "Performance Specification Printed Circuit Board/Printed Wiring Board, General Specification for FSC 5998." This specification establishes the general performance requirements for printed circuit boards or printed wiring boards and the verification requirements for ensuring that these items meet the applicable performance requirements. The intent of this specification is to allow the printed board manufacturer the flexibility to implement best commercial practices to the maximum extent possible while still providing product that meets military performance needs.
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Los Altos, Calif.: Henderson Ventures. 5 IPC, the Association Connecting Electronics Industries.
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The PrCB industry is the apparent victim of a fundamental transformation of the global electronics industry, which is characterized by very rapid product cycles and extremely demanding cost pressures and is led by very high volume throughput applications. For several reasons, much of the production capability for these downstream electronic products has increasingly moved offshore and increasingly to Asia.11 This inexorable trend has had major ripple effects in upstream supply, with PrCBs being only one of the affected industries.
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They are responsible for taking the basic raw materials and manufacturing a valueadded specialty product that will be used by PrCB manufacturers to build printed circuit boards. Many of the suppliers mentioned above are U.S.-based companies with global operations.
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Printed Circuits, Inc. Dynamic and Proto Circuits Endicott Interconnect Titan PCB East Sovereign Circuits Dynamic Details Geometric Circuits Tyco Printed Circuits (3)
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As an example, Owens Corning, the largest producer of flame-retardant woven glass cloth used to manufacture PrCB laminate, accounts for 80 percent of its revenue in the sales of glass cloth and related products outside the PrCB industry, primarily to the construction materials industry. The global shift of PrCB production volumes has resulted in numerous new competitors launching products for sale globally from offshore manufacturing locations.
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BUSINESS CLIMATE FOR PRINTED CIRCUIT TECHNOLOGY MANUFACTURING The U.S. manufacturing sector faces a number of central challenges, and each has specific relevance to the specialized production of interconnection technologies.
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In order to ensure that its domestic electronics producers can sell products in the EU market, China has advanced its own RoHS-type law. The draft Management Methods for Pollution Prevention and Control in the Production of Electronic Information Products of the Chinese Ministry of Information Industry would ban the use of lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, and certain brominated flame retardants in consumer electronics and electrical equipment sold in China.
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Because many companies supply components worldwide, they are finding the cost of producing two types of printed circuit boards, both with and without lead, to be a poor business proposition. Challenges in Supply-Chain Management Outsourcing and offshoring are growing trends with dramatic effects on supply chains and supplychain management.
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Today, the most advanced interconnection technologies, including the creation of metal/plastic composites and many-layered structures, and the combining of optical and electronic phenomena, are seeking to exploit phenomena that are beyond known and tested practices. Various factors -- the variety of raw materials, the decreasing thickness and size, and the challenges of heat dissipation -- are all stressing the current knowledge of what can be done and how to do it.
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Changes in the number, size, and scope of the companies that manufacture PrCBs appear to be a result of the evolution of global markets and production. The companies that supply the PrCB manufacturing industry are particularly affected by these trends.
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