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SMTnet Express, May 9, 2024, Subscribers: 25,547, Companies: 12,106, Users: 28,940

█  Electronics Manufacturing Technical Articles

A Review on Automatic Bare PCB Board Testing

A Printed Circuit Board is used to mechanically support and electrically connect electronic components using conductive pathways, track or signal traces etched from copper sheets laminated on to anon conductive substrate. The automatic inspection of PCBs serves a purpose which is traditional in computer technology. The purpose is to relieve human inspectors of the tedious and inefficient task of ...

Credit: Sri Ramakrishna College of Arts & Science

Deep Learning Based Defect Detection for Solder Joints on Industrial X-Ray Circuit Board Images

Quality control is of vital importance during electronics production. As the methods of producing electronic circuits improve, there is an increasing chance of solder defects during assembling the printed circuit board (PCB). Many technologies have been incorporated for inspecting failed soldering, such as X-ray imaging, optical imaging, and thermal imaging. With some advanced algorithms ...

Credit: Southeast University (SEU)

Bare PCB Inspection By Mean Of ECT Technique With Spin-Valve GMR Sensor

The high-sensitive micro eddy-current testing (ECT) probe composed of planar meander coil as an exciter and spin-valve giant magneto-resistance (SV-GMR) sensor as a magnetic sensor for bare printed circuit board (PCB) inspection is proposed in this paper. The high-sensitive micro ECT probe detects ...

Credits: Kanazawa University

Bare PCB inspection for Track cut, Track Short and Pad Damage using simple Image Processing Operations

In this paper most commonly occurring Bare PCB defects such as Track Cut, Track short and Pad Damages are detected by Image processing techniques. Reference PCB without having any defects is compared with test PCB having defects to identify the defects and x-y coordinates ...

Credits: Vidya Vikas Institute of Engineering & Technology (VVIET)

A Printed Circuit Board Inspection System With Defect Classification Capability

An automated visual PCB inspection is an approach used to counter difficulties occurred in human's manual inspection that can eliminates subjective aspects and then provides fast, quantitative, and dimensional assessments. In this study, referential approach has been implemented on template and defective PCB images to detect ...

Credits: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Automatic PCB Defect Detection Using Image Substraction Method

In this project Machine Vision PCB Inspection System is applied at the first step of manufacturing, i.e., the making of bare PCB. We first compare a PCB standard image with a PCB image, using a simple subtraction algorithm that can highlight the main problem-regions. We have also seen the effect of noise in a PCB image that at what level this method is suitable to ...

Credits: Al-Falah School of Engineering and Technology

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█  Printed Circuit Board Assembly & PCB Design Forum

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█  SMT, PCB Electronics Assembly Manufacturing Industry News

Nordson Electronics Solutions receives EM China Innovation award for the new ASYMTEK Select Coat® SL-1040 Conformal Coating System

Recognized at the Productronica China tradeshow, the SL-1040 elevates coating performance with improved yield and uptime for automotive electronics reliability...

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Seika Machinery Holds 30th Anniversary Celebration at 2024 IPC APEX EXPO

Seika Machinery, Inc., a leading provider of advanced machinery, materials and engineering services, celebrated its 30th anniversary during the recent 2024 IPC APEX EXPO....

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North American PCB Industry Sales Down 23.8 Percent in March

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AUCTION | Equipment for Auction: Complete Factory Closure

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AUCTIONEER | Parker SMT

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SCHEDULE | Mon, Jun 3 to Thu, Jun 6, 2024





AUCTION | Online Equipment Auction of Altronic: Small-Batch Surface Mount & Assembly Facility

AUCTIONEER | The Branford Group

TYPE | Online Auction

FEATURING | Altronic

Small-Batch Surface Mount & Assembly Facility

(2) Europlacer iineo Placement Machines

(30+) Europlacer Trolleys & (500+) ii-Feed Elements

Mycronic JET26 | Heller 1707 MK-III | Yestech YTX-300

SCHEDULE | Thu, Jun 20 to Wed, Jun 26, 2024

OPENS | Thursday, June 20, 2024 8:00 AM (EST)

CLOSING BEGINS | Thursday, June 26, 2024 1:00 PM (EST)

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Component Storage: Europlacer Lzero3 EX, Automatic SMT Component Storage Cabinet (2016)

Europlacer Trolleys: (14) Europlacer Intelligent Feeder Trolleys, (27) Europlacer Traditional Feeder Trolleys, (2) Europlacer Large-Format Feeder Trolleys

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Europlacer Accessories: (2) Europlacer Offline Setup Stations; Software: RC5.16.B2M21, Europlacer EPI-SERV-174 Server; Software Version: 1.07, Europlacer Offline Vision Bench, Europlacer E102854 Trolley Interface

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█  PCB Design & Assembly Industry Associations

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Surface Mount Technology Association (SMTA)

SMTA is a non-profit international association of companies and individuals (totalling 4,000) involved in all aspects of advanced electronics assembly, surface mount and related technologies.

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Association Connecting Electronics Industries (IPC)

IPC is a US-based trade association dedicated to the competitive excellence and financial success of its nearly 2,600 member companies which represent all facets of the electronic interconnection industry, including design, printed wiring board manufacturing and electronics assembly.

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