ATLANTA, GA – Last week’s PCB West show attendance rose 3% year-over-year, to nearly 2,000 attendees, UP Media Group announced today. It was the annual printed circuit board industry trade show’s highest turnout since 2001.

Registration for the 25th annual show was up 6% from 2015, added UPMG. Overall, nearly 2,000 printed circuit board designers, fabricators and electronics assemblers, managers and suppliers attended the trade show, UP Media Group said.

It was the seventh straight year both show registration and actual attendance figures have climbed.

Technical conference registration rose more than 20% year-over-year. Attendees gravitated toward sessions on resolving fundamentals and practical solutions to engineering and design problems. More than 24 designers underwent IPC certification during the conference as well.

The sold-out show floor featured more than 100 companies occupying 110 booths, and exhibitors were outwardly pleased about their leads from the consistently busy show. Among the comments:

• “A big thanks for a great show again this year. I thought last year was a great show; this year was even better.” – Joe Clark, founder, DownStream Technologies

• “Thanks for everything, as always! Great show.” – Dong Pham, manager sales operations – corporate, TTM Technologies

• “The show was really good for us. It was our first year, and everything was very professional. We deem it a success based on some very solid leads we received from visitors to our booth.”  – Gary Walker, VP, Javad EMS Inc.

PCB West was held September 13 – 15 at the Santa Clara (CA) Convention Center and was sponsored by the UPMG publications PRINTED CIRCUIT DESIGN & FAB and CIRCUITS ASSEMBLY. It included a three-day technical conference consisting of nearly 70 presentations, a one-day exhibition, featuring the PCB industry's leading vendors, and an array of free technical sessions.

"It is remarkable how, after 25 years, the demand for printed circuit board knowledge continues unabated,” said Mike Buetow, editorial director of UPMG. “This year’s show was our largest ever in terms of the number of exhibitors, with twice the number we had just five years ago. And the technical conference just keeps growing, too.”

PCB West 2017 will take place September 12-14, 2017, at the Santa Clara (CA) Convention Center.