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Imagineering Inc., Elk Grove Village, Illinois For many years, stencil printing has been the standard method of depositi

Panasonic Connect Brings Automation to Manufacturing Lines with North American Launch of NPM

NEWARK, NJ - Panasonic Connect North America launched its new NPM-GP/L Screen Printer to North American manufacturers. T

Want Better 0402 Reflow? Consider These Footprints!

Assembling with a stencil is just that much more convenient – it’s a huge timesaver, and your components no longer need

SHENMAO Offers UV Visible Lead

Reading time ( words) SHENMAO America, Inc. is proud to announce the release of its new product, the UV Visible Lead-Fre

Working With BGAs: Soldering, Reballing, And Rework

In our previous article on Ball Grid Arrays (BGAs), we explored how to design circuit boards and how to route the signal

Solder Paste Stencilling That Doesn’t Suck

Working with solder paste stencils can be a real faff, they rarely sit flat and move around when you so much as breath o

Can Solder Paste Stencils Be 3D Printed? They Can!

[Jan Mrázek]’s success with 3D printing a solder paste stencil is awfully interesting, though he makes it clear that it

A PCB That Reflow Solders Itself and Then Self Propagates!

Carl Bugeja's latest PCB project combines some of his findings over the past few years. Previously we have seen Bugeja c

KiCad 7: A Look at the Key Features of KiCad 7 and More

Since its appearance in the early 1990s, KiCad has evolved into a viable alternative to commercial EDA solutions. Ready

Why Gold Layer Thickness in ENIG Matters for Soldering

Reading time ( words) The main task of the final finish is to protect the copper pad from tarnishing or oxidation while

How to Build a PC: The Ultimate Beginner's Guide

Perhaps you've only ever used prebuilt desktops, or relied on a laptop. But if you always thought that building your own

Six Considerations When Choosing Machine Vision in Collaborative Applications

Machine vision dates back to the beginning of the modern industrial robot age in the 1980s. Augmenting collaborative rob