The Electronics Assembly Handbook

by Frank Riley (Editor)

Systems, vision and components in electronics assembly.- Manging automated electronics assembly.- PCB production equipment.- Modern platers and etchers.- Chemicals in PCB manufacturing.- Cleaning PCBs for higher quality.- Producing quality multilayer PCBs.- Plasma desmearing.- Chip-on-board technology.- Chip-and-wire technology.- TAB and flip-chip technology.- Component insertion equipment.- Workstations.- Automatic component insertion/placement systems.- Automated pin insertion.- Automated placement techniques.- Assembly challenges.- Robots in the electrical and electronics industry.- Consistency and quality using robots.- Robot hand exchangers.- Vision-guided assembly.- Vibratory insertion A new approach to non-standard component insertion.- SMT growth.- Realizing the benefits of SMT.- Designing reliability into surface-mount assemblies.- Design solutions.- Choosing SMT and setting up a facility.- SMT advantages.- Pick-and-place machines.- Surface-mount assembly using machine vision.- SMD placement using machine vision.- Hot-air leveling.- Testability circuit and board access problems.- Conductive epoxy for SMT solder replacement.- The removal and replacement of SMCs.- New applications.- New materials and equipment.- Integral substrate package technology.- Solder/cleaning, test and rework.- Solder joint acceptability.- Wave solder defects.- Soldering system trends.- Wave A study in process control.- Optimizing the wave soldering process.- Computerized soldering systems.- Re-examination of soldering techniques.- Adhesives for SMD wave soldering.- Adhesive evaluation.- Solder coating and leveling.- Screen printing.- Solvent flushing.- Rosin solder flux residues.- Aqueous cleaning.- Cleaning surface-mounted assemblies.- Desoldering components.- Bare-board testing.- Automatic optical inspection systems.- Machine vision.- Component testers and handlers.- Handlers.- Lead scanning.- Probe design and test fixturing.- Inspection equipment.- Image processing and non-destructive testing.- Design of SMA for testability.- Test and inspection of hybrid microcircuits.- In-circuit and functional ATE.- Functional test.- Test program development and processing power.- Robotic automated-test workcells.- Clean room technology.- Modular clean rooms.- Clean room air monitoring.- ESD control.- Static shielding techniques.- Computer control of modern factory operations.- Electronics CAE/CAD/CAM.- CAD/CAM for PCB manufacturing.- Designing PCBs for surface-mount assemblies.- CAD in hybrid production.- Discrete wired circuit board production.- Automating the assembly of electronic products.- Test, rework and inspection management costs.- Flexible manufacturing.- Computer simulation.- Local area networks.- Materials handling accessories.- Automated PCB handling.- Automated guided vehicle systems.- Batch-of-one assembly.- FMS for PCB assembly.- PCB assembly and test.- Factory control and robotic systems.- Authors' organizations and addresses.

628 pages, Paperback

Published March 12, 2014

About the author

My life has been one adventure after another. As a fifteen-year-old kid I worked on river boats in the River Mersey, Liverpool. At sixteen, I went into the Merchant Navy and served on nine ships.

When I was eighteen I began hitch-hiking through Scandinavia and mainland Europe. At twenty I worked on schooners in the Mediterranean, then hitch-hiked twice through Europe and the Middle East.

I ran out of money on the first attempt to get to Australia in Karachi and ended up getting a job as a third cook on a Norwegian freighter which took me to India, Ethiopia, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, the USA and Antwerp in Belgium.

The second attempt to get to Australia (to see my brother) I ran out of money in Teheran in Iran and had to do a runner out of that country with the financial assistance of my brother. For further details of this and indeed all of my adventures, check out 'The Life of Riley' at: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004J4W08 for the Kindle edition; and in paperback: https://www.createspace.com/3556150

I'm a brown belt in judo, have done some boxing and karate.

I spent twenty-two years as a professional ballroom and Latin American dancer and became a judge in both American style and international.

I began writing over forty years ago and have written numerous novels and movie scripts and have recently teamed up with Amazon.com to sell my books. I currently have five titles for sale: three novels, 'Bell's Lot' a detective drama set in Sydney, 'The last Dance', a romance drama set in the cauldron of the dance world, and my latest novel, 'The Dying Sea', about Eco-terrorism gone wrong. My fourth title is 'The Life of Riley, a tongue-in-cheek autobiography', the fifth, 'The Reluctant Tourist' is a comical travelogue

I wrote and directed a pilot for a children's television series, called 'The Magician'. It was a vehicle for showing the difficulties children have in growing up. The pilot dealt with bullying. Sadly, the television station for which I wrote and directed my work, went belly up whilst we were in post production.

My motivation for writing is from life itself. I draw on my past, but I rely heavily on my observations of people and their motivations. I don't subscribe to the notion that people really change their character during their life - the so-called 'arc' in movie parlance - and it is that belief in the basic flaw of humans that gives me much fodder for my works.