PCB Fabrication
The Joy of the Factory
Thursday, February 12th, 2009This article is cross-posted in the Baselodge Blog.
Disclaimer: I am well aware of the historical and current conditions in some factories and that many factories have been and are places of injustice for workers. The impressions I share in this article are not intended to deny such problems or minimize them. The types of factories [...]
A Glimpse at the Domestic US Board Business
Friday, December 21st, 2007Back in the late 1990s I worked for a division of Flextronics in Austin, TX. Our office was located next door to the Multek Austin PCB fabrication facility. Multek, which was itself a division of Flex, had purchased the Austin board house from IBM, which was in the midst of an aggressive divestiture program. The [...]