Episodes 250
Avg. Duration 42m
Activity Active
Apple Rating 4.0 (2)
Since May 2020
Latest Episode Apr 2026

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Recorded conversations and interviews on electronics design and manufacturing with the editors of PCD&F/Circuits Assembly, brought to you by the Printed Circuit Engineering Association (PCEA)

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RM 189: Predict, Prevent, Produce: RoviSys' Bryan DeBois on Manufacturing's Al Future

Apr 24, 2026 59m

What if your factory could predict failures before they happen, capture decades of human expertise, and make better decisions than ever before—without replacing the people who run it? Today’s guest…

PCB Chat 155: Breadboard's Nemanja Jokanovic on Automating BOM Management

Apr 20, 2026 20m

Nemanja Jokanovic is the executive leader of Breadboard, an AI-powered platform that he believes will revolutionize BOM management. In this interview with Andy Shaughnessy, Jokanovic, an Octopart…

RM 187: An Academic Look at Al in Electronics Manufacturing: Where It Works, Fails, and Why It Matters

Apr 16, 2026 59m

Artificial intelligence is being promoted as the next revolution in electronics manufacturing, but what happens when the people evaluating it aren’t traditional AI experts, aren’t software vendors,…

PCB Chat 154: Wally Rhines on the Latest ECAD Market Data

Apr 13, 2026 20m

Wally Rhines is the spokesperson for the ESD Alliance, part of Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International. He joined Andy Shaughnessy to share details from the latest ESD Alliance report on…

PCB Chat 153: Karen Burnham on Taking the Pain out of EMC

Mar 27, 2026 22m

Karen Burnham feels your pain - the pain of EMC, that is. Karen is an EMC engineer, instructor, and founder of EMC United, a consulting company that aims to make EMC less painful for the rest of the…

PCB Chat 152: Mike Buetow on the Cadence Acquisition of EMA

Mar 06, 2026 6m

What does Cadence's acquisition of EMA Design Automation mean for the respective companies, and the market? Mike Buetow considers the issues related to the EDA giant's acquisition of its largest VAR.

PCB Chat 151: Scott Bright of Cadstrom IO

Feb 11, 2026 32m

Scott Bright is co-founder and COO of Cadstrom IO, a new company that is coming up with tools for resolving some of the engineering problems that designers and engineers are encountering…

RM 185: How Accuracy & Force Compliance Contribute to Better Quality & Reliability, with Michael Sivigny

Jan 28, 2026 48m

In electronics manufacturing, defects don’t usually announce themselves. They happen in milliseconds, far faster than human perception, and often long before anyone realizes a process has drifted out…

PCB Chat 150: Wally Rhines on the Latest ECAD Market Data

Jan 12, 2026 12m

Wally Rhines the spokesperson for the ESD Alliance, part of Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International. He joins Mike Buetow each quarter to share details from the latest ESD Alliance report…

RM 184: Advances in Dispensing Automation and Thermal Management with PVA’s Jon Urquhart

Jan 12, 2026 49m

Jon Urquhart is director of global applications engineering at Precision Valve and Automation — one of the world’s leading developers of dispensing, coating, and industrial motion-automation systems.…

PCB Chat 149: Maggie Frachioni on the Evolution of a PCB Designer

Jan 12, 2026 15m

Margaret (Maggie) Frachioni is a semiconductor hardware engineer at General Motors, where, armed with a bachelor’s in computer engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, she started out…

RM 183: A Reliability Matters Podcast Year-End Reflection

Dec 23, 2025 9m

Since 2018, Reliability Matters has been building a knowledge vault, capturing the wisdom of industry experts for engineers everywhere.  In this special year-end episode, we celebrate the journey,…

RM 182: How to Work Effectively with your CM - with Daniel Stanphill & Sean Kincaid

Dec 10, 2025 1h 5m

Mike Konrad continues a dive into the world of contract manufacturing—a vital piece of the electronics ecosystem. Joining him are two industry leaders who know this space inside and out. First, we…

RM 181: Working with Contract Manufacturers - with Raymond Novara

Nov 30, 2025 58m

The next two episodes of Reliability Matters will be all about contract manufacturing, an area that can make or break the reliability and success of a product.  Mike Konrad's guest on this episode…

RM 180: Low Temp Soldering for a High-Reliability World

Nov 12, 2025 52m

Note: This is the fourth of four episodes on the subject of soldering materials.   Today, we're diving into a topic that's reshaping how we think about thermal management, energy efficiency, and…

PCB Chat 147: Matthias Wagner of FluxAI

Nov 05, 2025 32m

Today’s guest is Matthias Wagner, chief executive and cofounder of Flux. Flux is maker of a Agentic AI-based PCB design platform and programmable simulator that runs in a browser environment. Regular…

RM 179: Indium's Ross Berntson

Oct 30, 2025 1h 3m

This is the third of four episodes on the subject of soldering materials. Today, we’re continuing our deep dive into the world of soldering materials, from advanced alloys and flux chemistries to…

PCB Chat 146: The Latest EDA Market Results

Oct 07, 2025 16m

Wally Rhines joins Mike Buetow each quarter to share details from the latest ESD Alliance report on sales of PCB design software, computer-aided engineering tools, semiconductor tools, related IP and…

RM 176: The Chemistry of Reliability: Choosing the Right Solder and Flux

Sep 26, 2025 44m

In this episode, Mike Konrad is joined by Chris Ward, founder and managing director of Solderking Assembly Materials, a UK-based manufacturer of solders and chemical consumables for electronic,…

PCB Chat 147 with Margaret Upshur of Mobius Materials

Sep 22, 2025 25m

Margaret Upshur is CEO of Mobius Materials, a global online marketplace for excess electronic components. Before founding Mobius, she was senior director of operations at Particle, which supplies…

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