Like most manufacturers, the electronics manufacturing industry relies on countless suppliers to fulfill its manufacturing needs. I'm quite certain there is no one within the EMS space who fabricates their own boards using materials produced in house, operates their own semiconductor foundries, designs and manufacturers their own components, and produces soldering materials for their reflow process.
Our industry relies on a vast network of manufacturers throughout the world to build even the simplest electronic assembly. Intellectual property security, cybersecurity, national security, are all hot topics today. No one wants their hard-earned intellectual property stolen. This is most true within the US military establishment. There are, at present, numerous policies, procedures, and regulations designed to protect various parts of our supply chain from unscrupulous people and companies. Today, companies are concerned about “controlled unclassified information” (CUI) and “controlled technical information” (CTI).
That brings us to IPC-1791. What is IPC-1791?
Randy Cherry, Mike Konrad's guest on this episode, explains.
Randy Cherry has over 30 years' experience in engineering and is a certified SMT process engineer and an IPC auditor. He is director of Validation Services at IPC. Validation Services is a series of certification programs that qualify products and processes to the IPC industry standards.
RM 116: Supply Chain Musings with Mark Godwin of Ventec
PCB Chat 113: David Schild of the Printed Circuit Board Association of America
PCB Chat 112: Vivek Bansal on VVDN’s Vertical Integration Model
PCB Chat 111: Metallic Resources on Reclaiming Electronics Solder
RM 115: Making Sense of ’Big Data’
PCB Chat 110: Steve Robinson of APCT
RM 114: The Remarkable Return of the Post-Reflow Cleaning Process
RM 113: Counterfeit Component Detection with Dr. Eyal Weiss
Business Challenges with STI Electronics’ President David Raby
PCB Chat 109: Wally Rhines on the PCB Design Software Market
PCB Chat 108: Travis Kelly on Government Support of the US PCB Industry
RM 112: ESD Mitigation with ESD Expert Christopher Almeras
RM 111: Liquid Metal’s Potential Future in Electronics
RM 109: A Decade of Industry 4.0 - What it Was - What it Wasn’t
PCB Chat 107: Valentina Ratner and Kyle Dumont of AllSpice
PCB Chat 106: Madan Jagernauth on the Latest HDP Projects
RM 108: SMTA Pan Pacific Microelectronics Symposium Preview
RM 106: A Conversation about Production Automation
PCB Chat 105: Low-Heat Solders with Ian Tevis of SAFI-Tech and Andy Mackie of Indium
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