PCB Assembly - Surface Mount
By understanding your needs and continually investing in the latest surface mount technology (SMT) we are able to offer PCB assembly services which deliver unparalleled component placement accuracy.
You want to work with an outsourced partner who can help you to produce boards faster with higher quality, using lean manufacturing techniques, has the right processes and people, who understands the issues that you may be facing and has experience of working with a variety of customers.
- Opportunity to reduce product size – miniaturisation
- Mechanical strength and robustness are enhanced
- Automation helps reduce cost
- Reduction in package size results in greater functionality in the same board area
- Allows for the placement of a higher density of components directly on both sides of a printed circuit board
- Higher operating speed resulting from shorter interconnect distances
- Reductions in noise and weight
- Allows the use of more advanced circuitry
- Enhances circuit processing speed and thus, board and system performance
The SMT placement capabilities include:
- BGA
- Micro BGA
- CCGA
- CSP’s
- Double and single side reflow
- 0402/0201/01005 01005/0201/01005
- Flip Chip
- MCMs
- MEMs
- Complex Connectors (150mm x 0.3mm pitch)
Axiom utilises highly accurate enclosed head, solder paste, screen printing systems (Proflow) with automated 2-D inspection at the input to the SMT process. This system gives high levels of consistency for both paste and pump print stencil screening.
Additionally a highly accurate laser scanning 3-D monitoring system is used for applied paste volume analysis, utilising statistical process control through the manufacturing cycle.
Solder paste stencil hygiene is critical to ensure consistency of the application process, a programmable, ultrasonic system with air jet drying, providing automatic solder particle filtration is deployed during each product/line changeover.
Soldering is either with regular tin/lead solder, or lead free as requested by customer. Axiom works closely with customers to help with the transition into lead free soldering of their product. Click here to see our section on RoHS.
