ARTICLES & EVENTS
The Industrial Base Starts Upstream
Industrial strength begins before final assembly When people talk about industrial strength, they often focus on the finished system or final product. Those outputs matter, but the strength of an industrial base does not begin at final assembly. It begins much earlier, with the manufacturers upstream, the equipment builders, process…
What Dual-Use Manufacturing Actually Requires
What dual-use manufacturing really means When dual-use manufacturing is discussed, it is often framed as a strategic category. In practice, it is better understood as a capability standard. A manufacturer does not become relevant to both commercial and defense-related applications because it adopts a new label. It becomes relevant because…
Vacuum Lamination Presses
Lamination defects in multilayer PCB manufacturing rarely announce themselves early. Trapped air, outgassing volatiles, and inconsistent resin flow work quietly through the press cycle and surface later, as delamination, dimensional instability, or reliability failures in the field. By then, the cost is no longer just scrap. It’s rework, schedule compression,…