• August 5, 2026
  • Greg Papandrew
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Heโ€™ll be speaking September 30 on The Hidden Failure Mode Using Mixed VIPPO in BGA Structures.

Al Block brings over four decades of experience in the SMTA/PCB industry to his current role as PCB manufacturing strategist at DirectPCB.

Previously, he was responsible for evaluating new designs for product reliability and ensuring their robustness for NIโ€™s manufacturing. As a member of NIโ€™s PCB commodity team, he performed new supplier audits.

Before joining NI, he was DfM engineering manager at Solectronโ€™s NPI group and was responsible for various chemical and test labs at Raytheon/Texas Instruments Defense systems.

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๐—ก๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ฎ๐˜‚๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐˜ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐—ฃ๐—–๐—• ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜‚๐—ณ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€? ๐—ช๐—ฒโ€™๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—ด๐—ผ๐˜ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚.

Not only does Al keep DirectPCBโ€™s manufacturing factories running at peak performance, but customers also contract our services to perform audits to validate their own facilities.

Each audit comes with a report detailing strengths, weaknesses, along with corrective actions required, allowing our customers the opportunity to improve their offshore manufacturing processes without traveling halfway around the world.

Interested? Reach out to us or visit DirectPCB.com.

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