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Route SMT
December 31, 1969 |Estimated reading time: Less than a minute
SMT Magazine visits New Brunswick Industries, Inc. (NBI), a contract manufacturer in El Cajon, Calif. If you would like Route SMT to make a stop at your facility, e-mail us at smt@pennwell.com.
NBI, Inc. and SMT (l-r): David Carrilho, John Krehbiel, Gail Flower, Lorna Odegaard, Michelle Boisvert, and Steve Rathbun.
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Purchased in 1991 by Jim and Sue Krehbiel, NBI Inc. is an ISO:9001:2000-certified contract manufacturer with customers in the medical, music, industrial, communications, and semiconductor markets. This higher-mix/low-volume facility offers quick turns, prototyping, and personalized customer service.
Taylor Guitars, a customer of NBI, asked them to manufacture boards for a custom acoustic/electric guitar for the artist Prince. The purple boards were aptly etched with the words “Purple Rain.”
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NBI started manufacturing lead-free product in February 2006; now about 50% of their products are RoHS-compliant. To ensure product quality standards, all of the company’s assemblers are IPC-A-610D certified.
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Vi Sayaseng, inspector, handles boards post-reflow. NBI manufactures complex boards with with leadless chip carriers (LLCs). When these components began shifting during reflow, they examined the process and modified their screen to accommodate this design.