Recently we started a series on the components used to assemble a circuit board. The first issue was on dispensing solder paste. Moving down the assembly line, with the paste already on the board, the ...

This is done using a large machine that has reels upon reels of SMT or surface mount technology components. This ranges from controllers, MOSFETs, chokes and various other chips and components that ...

Agilent Technologies has announced it has successfully completed a study with Fuji Machine Manufacturing Co. to demonstrate the ability of Agilent’s Medalist SJ50 automated optical inspection (AOI) ...

Continued pressure for electronic devices that provide greater functionality in ever-smaller form-factors is not only providing the driving force behind developing smaller surface-mount components and ...

One of the major changes to affect automatic optical inspection (AOI) equipment used during PCB assembly and inspection is the greatly reduced size of the latest components. As stated in an October ...