DFM-The secret formula to maufacturability Design for Manufacturing (DFM) : The Secret Formula To Manufacturability
The best concept, design, or innovative product will remain a dream and won’t reach the marketplace if it can’t be manufactured. That’s the difference between design and design for manufacturing. What is DFM? “Design for manufacturing (DFM) is the secret...
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How This Contract PCB Manufacturer Maintains a Healthy Supply Chain to Reduce Disruption and Ensure On-time Delivery
The supply chain has always been important, but Covid propelled it into the worldwide spotlight while raising questions about how to prevent future disruptions. The conversations started buzzing, but manufacturers have always known that a smoothly operating supply chain is...
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Success Checklist : Working with a PCB Assembly Manufacturer
Working with a custom PCB assembly manufacturer may feel second-nature to you. But it may surprise you to hear that there are some simple things you can do to make the process and relationship even easier. A little preparation goes...
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A Manufacturing Love Story Aurora Boardworks and the Beast: A Manufacturing Love Story
Once upon a time…more than 50 years ago, Aurora Boardworks began producing custom PCBs and assemblies on the plains of Nebraska. To say we love what we do is an understatement. Aurora Boardworks exists to uncomplicate circuit board assembly with...
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PCBs: How Advanced Tech Intersects With Your Everyday Life PCBs: How Advanced Tech Intersects With Your Everyday Life
While our modern daily life hasn’t quite reached that of the Jetsons, with interplanetary daily commutes, our lives are still touched and simplified by advanced technology that we scarcely ever think about. Fundamental to almost any type of electronics is...
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Mission Accomplished Mission Accomplished: Taming Your Fussy Complicated Circuits
What comes to mind when you think of fussy circuits? You probably try hard not to think about them, just because they’re complicated, difficult, time consuming, and a nightmare to source. As low volume, prototype or one-off items, their production...
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Uncomplicating Legact PCB Designs Uncomplicating Legacy PCB Designs
Routines can be helpful–like the daily habits of brushing and flossing that keep us out of the dentist’s chair. But sometimes they get in the way. They can fossilize, gradually becoming less useful, even though we keep doing things the...
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5 Ways to Uncomplicate PCB Assembly All the Performance Without the Headaches: Uncomplicating PCB Assembly
From aerospace technology to medical devices and personal electronics, PCBs are at the heart of the systems that drive modern life and manufacturing. The endless variety of designs and applications means that PCB assembly is anything but a set-it-and-forget-it process....
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Silicon Prairie Nebraska’s Silicon Prairie: Where Hi-tech Meets Work-life Balance
Nebraska is the heartland of the nation, not just in a geographical sense, but in terms of demonstrating heart attitudes of friendliness, kindness, and care for others. What’s more, Nebraska technology is at the heart of many products that touch...
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pcb cost Here Are the Different Technologies That Impact PCB Cost
PCB or Printed Circuit Board is a bare board used to support and connect electronic components using conductive pathways, signal traces, and tracks etched on copper sheets which are then laminated to a non-conductive substrate.  They are the most commonly...
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medical patient lift circuit board Circuit Boards in the Medical Industry
After the initial “discovery” meeting, it is all about growing our relationship with the client and delivering on our promises. The client mentioned that our company’s professionalism, customer service, and intense experience in circuit board manufacturing made them feel comfortable...
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electronic assembly What is Electronic Assembly?
Electronic devices and gadgets are an essential part of modern life as they have a wide variety of applications. However, they would be impossible without electronic assembly. Whether air conditioners, refrigerators, smart cars and homes, and numerous other machines and...
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What is Systems Integrations?
Systems Integrations is a process in which different systems are combined into one functional system. It can be used to combine the capabilities of two or more systems for increased performance, redundancy, and functionality. Systems integration often requires both hardware...
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A Note From ISSI’s First Employee
By Carol Schenk Many people consider me ISSI’s first employee. But if it wasn’t for a bit of luck and being at the right time at the right place in 1974, I may have never found myself at this great...
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