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Volume 10, No. 12 December 2010
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REGULAR COLUMNS 4
Conformal coating: in house or contract assembly? Bob Willis
22 Holiday wishes for a “normal” 2011 Walt Custer and Jon Custer-Topai
42 Estimating the reliability of encapsulated wire bonds Werner Engelmaier
OTHER REGULAR FEATURES 6
Industry News
44 New Products 52 Association News
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Electronica lights up the European market Trevor Galbraith
TECHNOLOGY FOCUS 10 Clean “no-clean,” or use a water wash solder paste? Gerjan Diepstraten, Cobar Europe B.V., and Tim Lawrence, Ph.D., Cobar/Balver Zinn
18 Streamlining new product introduction Mark Laing, Valor Division of Mentor Graphics Corporation
BUSINESS FOCUS 28 2010 Rep & Distributor Review
SPECIAL FEATURES 38 Jumo refines its strategy for quality-driven growth 50 Interview—Digi-Key’s Mark Larson
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European edition
54 IMAPS Europe 56 International Diary
Happy holidays from the Global SMT & Packaging team—see you in 2011!
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