New technology in PCB fabrication and assembly

In the last few years, the electronics industry has seen some truly amazing advancements in technology. Devices and components we take for granted every day have become smaller, faster and significantly smarter. These new devices have given our lives a science fiction sort of aura. We now do things daily that were part of the imagination of sci-fi movie writers. During this time, assembly technology has grown at a steady pace with a few big improvements, mostly to processes and machinery. While PCB manufacturing has seen a significant number of major game changes in processes, the major improvements seen in assembly processes are based on smart vision systems and large computing power, giving the machinery a sort of artificial intelligence.

PCB manufacturing has grown along with many extreme advances in the process technology as well as the machinery. An expensive but indispensable digital direct download laser imaging unit decreases line widths, eliminating photo tools and developers. The high-resolution laser exposure unit increases yields, measures scaling differences, and then compensates for them and increases throughput.