This paper is a review of some of the problems facing manufacturers of current and future generation electronic products. It presents a brief overview of work carried out by the Interconnection Group at Loughborough in the support of manufacturing industry, and in particular defines some of the limitations of the manufacturing processes. The paper closes by identifying research areas that can be addressed by the academic community to assist industry in its efforts to maintain competitiveness. Research areas focused on are conventional packaging, multi-chip modules and some aspects of the organization of international manufacture.
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