INTERVIEW work 24-7. We have people working around the clock so if there are any issues in the middle of the night, we can go ahead and manage them and make sure that production keeps going. Do you still have PCB manufacturing that’s done here in the U.S.? We do. We have two operations in the U.S. - one in Detroit, Mich. and one in Dallas, Tex. - and we focus almost exclusively on high technology, quick turn delivery. So 12-18 layers in three days or less. We acquired a company called UPE at the beginning of the year that does EXTREME copper and we do up to 20 oz of copper on the outer layers and in holes. It’s a technology that’s really been accepted by the defense and aerospace industries, but very few people in the world can make printed circuit boards with that amount of copper. In terms of trace, width, and manufacturing minimum restrictions, what kind of technology does Epec offer? Right now we’re down to 2 ½ and 2 ½. We invested in laser direct imaging (LDI) equipment to be able to get down to those levels. A lot of folks have LDI for just the circuit imaging part of PCB manufacturing. We have LDI for imaging and solder masks, which allows us to get down to 3mil solder mask dams in a quad-pack design. This allows the customers much more ease-of-use when it comes to their assembly versus somebody that’s trying to use films to image the old-fashioned way, so to speak, where you can’t hold anything less than 5mils. Do your PCBs all run under the Epec brand? They do not. There are two reasons Visit www.eeweb.com
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