Electronic Manufacturing Files: What We Need for PCB Assembly

December 7, 2018 | Duane Benson, Screaming Circuits

As PCB assemblers, manufacturing is all about taking data and delivering good working circuit boards. It can be just data, as in full turn-key, data plus some parts, or a partial turn-key or a kitted job. Regardless of whether you're sending parts and boards or having us buy everything, PCB assemblers need good data, and a lot of it.

Does Medical Device Reliability Worry You Sick?

December 6, 2018 | Eric Camden, Foresite

When you are manufacturing high-reliability assemblies related to medical industry, it is critical to take a very close look at the assembly process and all other processes that can influence the end-use reliability—even seemingly unrelated processes, such as post-installation cleaning—as it really could be a matter of life or death.

Proper Thermal Shielding Yields Highest Rework Results

November 21, 2018 | Bob Wettermann, BEST, Inc.

There are numerous "gotchas" if the rework technician does not care for components and materials neighboring the component rework area. However, careful planning, shielding, and sometimes removing a neighboring device or...

SMT Manufacturing: Why Soldering?

November 15, 2018 | Dr. Jennie Hwang, H-Technologies Group

Upcoming AI hardware requires advanced semiconductors, packaging approaches, new architectures, increased speeds and capabilities of inference processing, and system design and manufacturing prowess continually developed to reach the...

Top 5 Ways to Mitigate PCB Component Availability Problems

November 7, 2018 | Duane Benson, Screaming Circuits

The electronics design world is by now aware that we're in a very serious period of components shortages. Allocation and shortages hit every few years, but this one seems to be the worst in recent memory. It could be a problem until...