PCB Thermal Compression Bonding: Heat and Pressure Together Buyers and engineers often focus on the finished product and forget the production line behind it. In practice, most field failures can be traced back to process decisions made during assembly. Understanding PCB thermal compression bonding gives you a practical advantage when…

PCB Lid Sealing for Packages: Sealing the Cavity Electronics manufacturing has become a discipline of small details. Solder paste volumes, placement accuracy, temperature profiles and inspection limits all add up to the final result. This guide looks at PCB lid sealing for packages from the perspective of a PCBA factory…

How to Evaluate a PCB Design Company Selecting a PCB design company is a decision that is difficult to reverse, because the design data, the conventions used to produce it and the reasoning behind the choices all live with the supplier. Changing supplier part way through a project is possible…

PCB Die Attach Materials: Holding the Die Modern electronics depend on boards that are assembled correctly the first time. Every product – a phone, a charger, a medical instrument or an industrial controller – relies on thousands of solder joints that must conduct current for years. This article explains PCB…

AI Server Demand and Supply Chain Pressure on Board Fabrication The demand created by accelerated computing has changed the market for high performance boards more in a few years than the previous decade did. A product that uses a large number of high layer count boards, each with a low…

The SMT Process from Prototype to Volume Production The route from a design file to a delivered assembly passes through the same stages every time, and the value of describing the SMT process end to end is that it shows where the design decisions take effect. A defect that appears…

PCB Wire Bonding on Boards: Fine Wires on a Board Buyers and engineers often focus on the finished product and forget the production line behind it. In practice, most field failures can be traced back to process decisions made during assembly. Understanding PCB wire bonding on boards gives you a…

PCB Press Fit Insertion Force Control: Getting the Push Right Modern electronics depend on boards that are assembled correctly the first time. Every product – a phone, a charger, a medical instrument or an industrial controller – relies on thousands of solder joints that must conduct current for years. This…

AI Server SMT Assembly: Large Packages and Thermal Loads Assembling an AI server board is different from assembling an ordinary control board, and the difference is not the number of components. It is the physical scale of the devices, the amount of heat they produce and the density of the…

008004 Components: Placement, Land Pattern and Paste Volume A 008004 component measures roughly 0.25 by 0.125 millimetres, which is about a third of the linear dimension of an 01005 and less than a tenth of the area. It is a production component rather than a laboratory curiosity, and it is…