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Scott Miller and Brian White join host Nolan Johnson to discuss Miller's book, The Printed Circuit Designer's Guide to Executing Complex PCBs. Miller and White add insight to the seven key disciplines required by designers to successfully design complex PCBs. Of course, in this fast-moving industry, they also provide updated perspectives.

In this episode, my guests are Julie Cliche-Dubois, product manager at Cogiscan, and Andres Luna, general manager at Univertools. Univertools represents Cogiscan in Mexico. Julie is the author of the recently published book, "The Printed Circuit Assembler's Guide to Factory Analytics.” In this episode, we're discussing the evolving role of data analytics, with an eye toward how analytics is driving meaningful action throughout the electronics manufacturing industry in Mexico and the rest of the Americas.

The panel full of circuit boards has completed the manufacturing process. We end this journey by routing the panel into individual boards, performing a final inspection, and packaging for shipment.

Nearly finished, phase two of the wrap-up is to apply surface finish to protect that copper from oxidation and to facilitate soldering the components to the board.

By this point, we have a functioning PCB, but there is still more to do in order to keep the board safe from environmental effects, and also document the circuit components. In this episode, we cover the topics solder mask and silkscreen.