Printed circuit board assembly: The Complete Works
Assembly of 'difficult' components onto printed circuit boards is emerging as an important application area for small, fast industrial robots. For other robot tasks - for example paint spraying or arc welding - the applications engineer can rely on a body of published information representing decades of accumulated knowledge about the actual process being automated. But for the process of assembly relatively little systematically presented knowledge exists, mainly because so much manual assembly depends on extremely subtle co-ordination of hand, eye and brain which is hard to represent directly in engineering terms. As for the particular processes of electronic assembly, they have hardly been covered at all in the literature. Yet the design of a good PCB automation system depends crucially on the responsible engineer fully understanding every aspect of the process he or she is automating, whether working for the electronics manufacturer, an automation company, a research laboratory or a machine builder. The author of this book has had extensive practical experience in all these roles: as a source of great detail on most aspects of the electronic assembly process it will be of unique value not only to the robot specialist but well beyond that to anyone needing to understand how printed circuit boards are manufactured. P. G. Davey Acknowledgements The author is indebted to many companies and individuals from within the pcb assembly industry.
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Printed circuit board assembly: The Complete Works
Assembly of 'difficult' components onto printed circuit boards is emerging as an important application area for small, fast industrial robots. For other robot tasks - for example paint spraying or arc welding - the applications engineer can rely on a body of published information representing decades of accumulated knowledge about the actual process being automated. But for the process of assembly relatively little systematically presented knowledge exists, mainly because so much manual assembly depends on extremely subtle co-ordination of hand, eye and brain which is hard to represent directly in engineering terms. As for the particular processes of electronic assembly, they have hardly been covered at all in the literature. Yet the design of a good PCB automation system depends crucially on the responsible engineer fully understanding every aspect of the process he or she is automating, whether working for the electronics manufacturer, an automation company, a research laboratory or a machine builder. The author of this book has had extensive practical experience in all these roles: as a source of great detail on most aspects of the electronic assembly process it will be of unique value not only to the robot specialist but well beyond that to anyone needing to understand how printed circuit boards are manufactured. P. G. Davey Acknowledgements The author is indebted to many companies and individuals from within the pcb assembly industry.
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Printed circuit board assembly: The Complete Works

Printed circuit board assembly: The Complete Works

by P.J.W. Noble
Printed circuit board assembly: The Complete Works

Printed circuit board assembly: The Complete Works

by P.J.W. Noble

Paperback(Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1989)

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Assembly of 'difficult' components onto printed circuit boards is emerging as an important application area for small, fast industrial robots. For other robot tasks - for example paint spraying or arc welding - the applications engineer can rely on a body of published information representing decades of accumulated knowledge about the actual process being automated. But for the process of assembly relatively little systematically presented knowledge exists, mainly because so much manual assembly depends on extremely subtle co-ordination of hand, eye and brain which is hard to represent directly in engineering terms. As for the particular processes of electronic assembly, they have hardly been covered at all in the literature. Yet the design of a good PCB automation system depends crucially on the responsible engineer fully understanding every aspect of the process he or she is automating, whether working for the electronics manufacturer, an automation company, a research laboratory or a machine builder. The author of this book has had extensive practical experience in all these roles: as a source of great detail on most aspects of the electronic assembly process it will be of unique value not only to the robot specialist but well beyond that to anyone needing to understand how printed circuit boards are manufactured. P. G. Davey Acknowledgements The author is indebted to many companies and individuals from within the pcb assembly industry.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781468462364
Publisher: Springer US
Publication date: 01/03/2013
Series: Open University Press Robotics Series
Edition description: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1989
Pages: 203
Product dimensions: 6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

Series editor’s preface.- Acknowledgements.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Board design for assembly.- 3 Component specifications and their impact.- 4 Planning the kitting.- 5 Standards.- 6 Planning the production area.- 7 Programming the machine.- 8 Inspection — is it really necessary?.- 9 Choosing the best machine.- 10 Manual, light-guided, semi-automatic and robotic assembly.- 11 Training of operations, programming and planning staff.- 12 Cost considerations.- 13 Mass soldering technology.- 14 Surface-mount components.- 15 Conclusions.- Appendix 1 Glossary.- Appendix 2 Standards.
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