North American PCB Statistical Program
PCB fabricators that participate in this program report basic sales and order data monthly and more detailed data quarterly. They receive the aggregate data files covering sales, orders and growth rates by product types and company-size tiers for rigid PCBs and by product types for flexible circuits, as well as separate rigid and flex book-to-bill ratios. Backlogs, inventory levels, and sales performance in the military, medical and prototype markets are also reported.
IPC collects the company data in strict confidence through our partner, Vault Consulting. For statistical program details and historical PCB book-to-bill ratios, contact Shawn DuBravac, IPC's chief economist at ShawnDubravac@ipc.org.
“We use the numbers in IPC’s monthly PCB Statistical Program to validate the trends we see in our own business. This is a very valuable benchmarking tool that takes little effort to participate in through a monthly survey.”
-- Clay Swain, Vice President of Sales and Marketing Summit Interconnect