Conformal Coating Service: Materials, Process and Cost Protecting a Board From Its Environment A conformal coating is a thin polymer film applied over an assembled circuit board to keep moisture, salt, dust and chemical contamination away from the conductors and joints. It weighs almost nothing, adds a negligible amount of…

LED PCB Assembly Service: Prototype to Volume Production Light Output Depends on the Board An LED assembly is judged on two things that are decided by the board rather than by the diode: how much heat can be removed from the junction, and how consistently that heat is removed across…

PCB Outgoing Quality Audit: A Factory-Floor Review 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 outgoing quality audit from the perspective of a PCBA factory floor, covering…

ADAS System PCB Design: Requirements, Materials and Cost The Board Under Every Driver Assistance Feature Adaptive cruise control, lane departure warning, automatic emergency braking and parking assistance all depend on the same underlying chain: a sensor captures something, a board processes it under a hard time limit, and a decision…

PCB Sampling Plan AQL: From Design to Repeatable Production 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 sampling plan AQL from the perspective of a PCBA factory…

How to Desolder PCB Components: PCB Design, PCB Manufacturing & Repair Guide When a printed circuit board needs to be repaired, upgraded, modified, or recycled, removing soldered components is often one of the first steps. PCB Desoldering allows technicians and engineers to remove faulty components, recover reusable parts, replace obsolete…

Machine Vision PCB Design for Industrial Robot Cameras The Board Behind the Camera A robot vision system captures an image, transfers it at high speed, processes it and returns a decision, all within a few milliseconds. The board that carries that chain is not a passive interconnect. It sits between…

PCB Measurement System Analysis: Design, Process, and Quality Notes 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 measurement system analysis gives you a practical advantage…

PCB Gauge Repeatability and Reproducibility: Trusting the Measurement 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 gauge repeatability and reproducibility gives you a practical advantage…

Gold Finger PCB vs Standard PCB: Key Differences A Choice Made at Design Time Whether a board connects to the rest of the system through a soldered joint or through a sliding edge connector changes almost everything about its specification. A soldered joint is made once and never moves again.…