The IPC report in October PCB sales and order two popular in North America
On November 27, 2013, the United States Illinois bannockburn, IPC, international association for the electronics industry connection? Published today in the north American PCB market research statistics report in October. Report, sales and order quantity has the strong growth in October, but fell to 0.94 book-to-bill ratio.
Compared with the index growth
PCB shipments in October 2013, compared with the same period last year, an increase of 3.6%. Year-to-date shipments, compared with the same period last year is still negative, but has improved 2.9%.
The north American PCB orders rose 7.0% year-on-year, the year-to-date orders growth pushed up to 0.1%.
By cycle factors, the PCB of October shipments and orders are lower than last month. PCB shipments fell 6.6%, orders dropped 4.0%.
Sharon IPC market research director ms Starr said: "compared with the same period last year, although the two sales and order, but sales are more than three months before orders, thus pushing down the book-to-bill ratio. Six consecutive months of sales growth compared with the data, finally make the sales realized the net increase in October. The second half of 2013 PCB recovery, or lower than the expected result."
The report details
The north American PCB industry in October survey report will be published on December 2, the monthly report, describes in detail the sales of rigid PCB and flexible printed circuit board, orders, book-to-bill ratio, military industry and medical electronics market growth condition, sample requirements and other important data. All participants in the survey company, reports, subscribers can receive the report free of charge. More information, log on to the IPC website.
GDP
Book-to-bill ratio, is to use the sample companies participating in the IPC research project in the past three months, orders of the same period divided by the sales ratio. Ratio greater than 1.00, said the current demand exceeds supply, signal in the next three to six months, the sales will be to the growth trend of development.
The growth rate of year-on-year growth rates and year-to-date, have guiding significance to explore the development trend of industry. Sequential data because of the cyclical and short-term sex change factors, need careful treatment. Compared with the data delivery, order data change is bigger, and months between book-to-bill ratio change, it is not that important, unless there is a clear change trend of more than 3 consecutive months. To explore the change of the order and shipment reason and understanding book-to-bill ratio changes are equally important.
IPC PCB industry statistics, a month comes from the area is typical in the United States and Canada just/flexible PCB manufacturer of sample companies to provide regular data. The IPC will be released monthly PCB book-to-bill ratio and PCB statistics project report. Monthly statistics report published in next month's last week.
