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Selective Soldering: A Better Choice for Today’s Complex Modern Electronics
As electronics become increasingly smaller and more complex with mixed-component assemblies, selective soldering has emerged as an essential electronics manufacturing technique. Unlike wave solderi
Wave Soldering is the Way to Go
With surface mount parts being so thoroughly entrenched, one might think that thru-hole parts and thru-hole soldering are no longer a part of the electronics manufacturing scene. While it is true t
The Best Way to Panelization Your PCB
PCBs are panelized when you need or want to run more than one board through a pick and place machine at the same time. Read more about the “whys” here. V-Score Can Only Panelize in Stra
The Brain to PC Board Interface
At first glance, that headline might seem to be referring to A/I. The image is from OpenAI’s Dall-E, but the message of this post really is much more down to earth than that. It’s about
The Spectrum of Dark Matter
In 1915, Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravity waves. 100 years after that, the LIGO observatory system first detected those waves, confirming that old Albert was right. We built a few
Safety Margin in Electronics Manufacturing
All systems require some type of safety margin or operational tolerance. In analog electronics, we talk about headroom: the difference between design signal level and the point at which the system
How Many Parts Do You Need?
First, take a look at our 10/10/10 components attrition guidelines Surface mount pick and place machines are a marvel of technology. The pick and place heads on the fastest machines can be so fast,
FAB and Assembly Drawings for Turnkey PCB Assembly
A successful PCB assembly operation requires a lot of data. In a perfect world, all of that data would be in a nice IPC-2581 intelligent CAD file. Sadly, we don’t live in a perfect world. Who
Cost Reduction in Electronics Design
While supply chain and labor shortages may get much of the attention these days, the world of design is not all that different than it was a few years ago. We still have to give focus to things lik