Techmet - Electronics Buyers' Guide (EBG)

Section - Production services & equipment
–+ Contract electronics manufacturing (CEM) & assembly services
-PCB assembly services
- Conformal coating
- Depanelling
-Quality standards, compliance
- SABS
–+ Equipment for electronics assembly
-Assembly line furniture
- Conveyors, production line
- Magazine loaders/unloaders
- Static protection - anti-static liquid
- Static protection - clothing
- Static protection - floor treatments
- Static protection - flooring/mats
- Static protection - heel grounders
- Static protection - ionisers
- Static protection - warning signs/labels
- Static protection - work surfaces
- Static protection - wrist bands
-Board loading
- Assembly jigs & fixtures
- Assembly station magnifying viewers
- Automatic small parts feeders
- Lead cropping & clinching
- SMD placement machines - automatic entry-level
- SMD placement machines - high volume
- SMD placement machines - manual/semi-automatic
- SMD placement machines - medium volume
- Through-hole component insertion machines
-Board preparation
- Manual adhesive dispensers
- Screen printing machines
-Cleaning machines
- Aqueous
- Batch
- In-line
- Semi-aqueous
- Solvent
- Spot cleaning
- Squeegee blades
- Ultrasonic
- Ultrasonic/option
- Vapour degreasing
-Component preparation
- Component counters
- Lead cutting & trimming
- Lead forming & bending
-Finishing
- Conformal coating/curing
- Depanelling - mechanical
- Depanelling - scoring
-Reflow soldering
- Hot air/gas convection
- Inert atmosphere
- Infrared
- Vapour-phase
-Solder fume extractors
-Soldering/rework stations
-Soldering
- Solder mask dispensing
- Solder pots, baths
- Soldering machines - inert atmosphere
- Soldering machines - multiple jet
- Soldering machines - wave
- Spray fluxers
-Storage
- board carriers, racks
- Component carrier trays
- Protective packaging - clean room packaging
- Protective packaging - conductive bags
- Protective packaging - conductive foam
- Protective packaging - desiccant bags
- Protective packaging - dissipative bags/tubing
- Protective packaging - dissipative foam
- Protective packaging - humidity indicator cards
- Protective packaging - static shielding bags
-Test equipment
- Ground check testers
- Static locators
- Surface resistivity meters
–+ Hand tools for assembly & repair
-Soldering/desoldering
- Desoldering irons & bits
- Flux dispensers
- Gas-heated portable irons
- Hot air desoldering tools
- Hot air soldering tools
- Reflow soldering plates
- Solder dispensers
- Solder fume extraction
- Solder suckers
- Soldering bit cleaners
- Soldering iron holders
- Soldering irons & bits
- Soldering stations
-Specialised tools for electronics
- Component handling tools - tipping tweezers
- Component handling tools - vacuum 'tweezers' (SMD)
- Component lead cropper
- General purpose tweezers
- Pliers - bent nosed
- Pliers - flat, long nosed
- Pliers - half-round, long nosed
- Pliers - lead forming
- Pliers - round nosed
- Side cutters
–+ Production materials & consumables
-Adhesives
- Acrylic
- Epoxy
- SMT
- Thermally conductive
- Urethane & silicone
-Cleaning agents
- Alcohol based
- Aqueous
- Saponifiers
- Semi-aqueous
- Solvents
- Solvents, non-CFC
-Coatings
- Antistatic
- Conformal
-Flux solvents
-Fluxes
- No-clean
- RA, RMA, rosin, synthetic
- Water soluble
-Foils, metal
-Screen printing
- Meshes
- Squeegees
- Stencils
-Solder masking agents
- Wet/dry
-Solder masks, temporary
- Peelable materials
- Tab protectors, removable
- Tape
- Water soluble
-Solder paste
- Aqueous
- No-clean
- Rosin-based
- Water-soluble
-Soldering materials
- Bulk solder sticks, bars
- Dross-reducing agents
- Resin cored wire
- Solder preforms
- Soldering oils
- Vapour phase liquids
-Solvents (PCB manufacture)
–+ Test & inspection, repair & recycling, kitting & packaging
-Microscopes
-PCB inspection
- Automatic optical/video comparators
- Optical magnifiers
- X-ray imaging