TABLE OF CONTENTS Electronics, made in Europe
Keywords EIPC, Electronics engineering, Europe
The electronics industry in Europe is one which is very wide, very deep and dispersed over many nations and industries. If we mention electronics as an industry, in a certain way it is not at all an industry it is an industrial enabler. The automobile industry is an industry. The medical equipment industry is an industry. Aeronautics is an industry. Electronics just makes them all better and more profitable. How can we bring attention to the concept of electronics, made in Europe?
The EPC-2004 Convention will take place in October, in Cologne (K ln). This Convention is the combination of an Exhibition and a Conference of interest to printed circuit board professionals, be they designers, fabricators, suppliers to fabricators, EMS companies or OEM companies.
The printed circuit and its design are the things that all of the electronics industry has in common. No matter what the end product, there is a purpose-built printed circuit board. You may buy semiconductors, passive components, cables, connectors and housings off the shelf from a catalogue, but to get to market with an electronically enabled product you will have to design, build and assemble a printed circuit board. In spite of the universal nature of the PCB to the electronics industry, the communications and relationships between the OEM and the PCB fabricator have been slowly disintegrating. The PCB fabricator becomes viewed more-and-more as a commodity provider, and the...
