Newbury Electronics

NEW CONVEYORISED PROCESS EQUIPMENT FOR PCB MANUFACTURE
As customers call for finer tracks and gaps, we have to anticipate with enhancements to our processes. This year we have successfully installed three new conveyorised process lines. These are for copper etching, solder resist development and copper chemical cleaning. As a consequence, both productivity and production yields have improved.

LARGER FACTORY FOR ELECTRONIC ASSEMBLY
Our new home for Newbury Electronics Contracts Division is over twice the size of our old premises and has a total area of 3,500 square feet. It is just 2 minutes from our PCB plant and the new address is 8 River Park Estate, Ampere Road, Newbury. It has been specially fitted out for electronic assembly with complete anti-static flooring. Some of the extra area has already been taken up with new machinery, but we still have room for expansion.

NEW FORCED AIR CONVECTION REFLOW OVEN
With increasing production throughput, we have recently upgraded our SMD reflow oven. Our new machine is a forced air convection reflow oven with 4 computer controlled zones on both top and bottom making 8 zones in total. The 4 zones have a length of over 1.5M. All the zones are under closed loop computer control. This technology will easily cope with even the most difficult components. Temperature profiles are constantly monitored and repeatable.

NEW AUTOMATIC SOLDER PASTE SCREEN PRINTER
An automatic solder paste screen printer with vision alignment control has just been installed. The new machine enables very accurate printing of solder paste on even the finest pitch devices. Tight computer control of all aspects of the solder paste screen-printing process is essential for reliable SMD assembly and this machine achieves it all, perfectly printing the finest micro-BGA’s time after time. First time pass rates for finished product are significantly improved together with overall product reliability.

NEW BGA PLACEMENT AND RE-WORK EQUIPMENT
If you have 100’s of BGA’s to place, then our Tenryu FV7100 is a fine machine to use. But how do you place a small batch or replace a BGA? Our new Zevac DRS 20 is a highly accurate small batch SMD placement machine which allows even the finest pitch flat-packs and BGA’s to be placed with absolute accuracy and removed without damage to the pcb. It is a miniaturized placement machine combined with a component size batch convection oven. Closed loop temperature measurement, joy-stick control of the component pick-up and placement, and camera vision for alignment all ensure consistent results.

PCBRAIN ASSEMBLY SERVICE NOW ONE YEAR OLD
Pcbtrain Assembly is a fixed price assembly service with a turn-around from 4 working days. It is designed to get your pcbtrain pcbs assembled in just a few days. We supply for free any standard R’s & C’s. You free-issue to us any other parts you require assembled. Prices start from £50 to assemble 50 parts, including complex devices such as QFP’s. We specialize in BGA placement and these are at additional cost. Visit www.pcbtrain.com where there is an online price calculator.
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