Surface mount technology experience: Problems and solutions

✍ Scribed by Mitch Davis

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 249 KB
• Volume: 17
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0026-2692
• DOI: 10.1016/s0026-2692(86)80008-8

✦ Synopsis

Surface mount technology (SMT) was pioneered in the 1970"s at RCA Moorestown in the Hybrid Engineering Lab. During the past two years a full-production SMT facility has been established to produce Improved Standard Electronic Modules (ISEMs) for an advanced Navy shipboard radar system.

This paper describes the major materials and process and equipment options which were chosen for the new SMT manufacturing facility, as well as some of the operational problems and solutions that developed during start-up and pilot production.