Direct Plating in Printed Circuit Board Manufacturing

Process Optimization for Flexible Printed Circuit Board Assembly Manufacturing

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Optimization of printed circuit board manufacturing: Integrated modeling and algorithms

This paper focuses on an integrated optimization problem that is designed to improve productivity in printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing. We examine the problems of allocating the components to feeders and sequencing the placement of these components on the PCBs, populated by a rotary head machine with surface mount technology. While previous research focuses on sequencing the placement a...

Polymer Waveguide Manufacturing and Printed Circuit Board Integration

Printed circuit board inspection

This paper provides a general overview of immediate and long-term aims of the printed circuit board inspection project of The Robotics Institute. Its purpose is to highlight some of the significant issues specific to printed circuit board inspection and to provide a discussion of our basic thesis that machine inspection should be coupled with machine diagnosis of the causes of observed printed ...

Printed Circuit Board Deconstruction Techniques

The primary purpose of printed circuit board (PCB) reverse engineering is to determine electronic system or subsystem functionality by analyzing how components are interconnected. We performed a series of experiments using both inexpensive home-based solutions and state-of-the-art technologies with a goal of removing exterior coatings and accessing individual PCB layers. This paper presents our...