Focus: Industrial
Surface-mount production line increases capacity
New line provides increases capacity and flexibility for AWS customers, says the company
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WS Electronics Group, electronics manufacturing solutions provider, has recently invested in a new
Surface Mount Technology (SMT) line at its UK manufacturing site. Continued growth in demand for the turn-key solutions on offer at AWS has fuelled the need for what is now the fifth fully automated line in the facility. The new line allows for greater flexibility, efficiency and the additional capacity to build more PCAs, supporting the requirements of both new and existing customers. The line comprises of a DEK printer, 3 new JUKI pick and place machines and a HELLER reflow oven. Jamie Maughan, AWS Group operations director, comments, “We are delighted to see our UK site continue to grow with several large new customers over the past 12 months. This, coupled with increased sales with our existing
customers, has seen a requirement for more capacity. With this new line we are proud to be able to meet the rise in demand and also increase our future growth. Further, we have expanded our workforce for the increase in unit assembly and test.” Due to consistent growth in new and existing business, AWS continues to invest in both its UK manufacturing site and mirror-facility in Slovakia. AWS Group has facilities in the UK and Slovakia in CEE offering product assembly and PCBAs. AWS Group provides complete turnkey solutions from concept design inputs to through life product support and responds to the various technical requirements of its customers in this high technology sector by offering specialist skills including design support; rapid prototyping; complete product assembly and testing; high-end surface
mount capability; complex electro- mechanical assembly; cable and harness assembly; and through life repair and maintenance (MRO).
Marine electronics - and why it goes wrong
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ater is easy to keep out of things – seals and plastics are excellent barriers. However, water vapour can permeate right through those same plastics and barriers almost as if they were not there
and in large volumes. Once inside, the vapour condenses, causes problems, and is kept in
precisely the wrong place by the very same seals and plastics that were designed to keep it out. Vapour permeability is a measure of the amount of vapour that passes
through a material and can vary dramatically from substance to substance and vapour to vapour. Even seemingly similar material's permeability can differ by factors of thousands, millions or often even more. It is a critical factor in a huge number of manufacturing and engineering processes that affects everything from the shelf-life of food and drugs to the printability and strength of packaging. It is critical in buildings, cosmetics, corrosion, quality control, the integrity of electronics enclosures, the functioning of machinery and much more. The greater the vapour permeability of a material, the more rapidly vapour can pass through it. Versaperm has developed a new, highly accurate, multi-chamber instrument that allows you to identify and correct problems by measuring vapour permeability of enclosures, as well as the materials and composites from which they are made. And it can do this not just for water vapour but for hydrocarbons, CO2 and virtually every other gas/ vapour that is found in the marine environment. Some materials allow thousands of times more vapour through than others and some, such as silicone, cellulose, EVOH and PVOH are so poor at containing water vapour that they might as well not be there at all! To make matters even worse, the manufacturing process itself can quadruple the amount of vapour that permeates through the material. If you want to keep water or any other vapour outside a case or enclosure in a marine environment, then the only solution is testing. Versaperm’s equipment is fast, easy to use and offers a precise
measurement of the rate that water vapour and other vapours infiltrate equipment, electronics, enclosures and packages. Results are accurate in the Parts Per Million (PPM) range for most materials, and you can measure several separate material samples, seals, enclosures or electronic devices at a single time. Versaperm also offers a vapour permeability laboratory service for companies which only need to test samples on an irregular basis.
versaperm.com 30 April 2019 Components in Electronics
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