Electronic Assembly

Offering single board or module assembly for surface mount, conventional through-hole or mixed technology, with full procurement and bill of materials control, UK Electronics can help free your resources to concentrate on the core activities of your business.

Our modern production facility, staffed by an experienced assembly team, is geared specifically to the fast changing environment of low to medium volume production runs for a wide range of customers. Larger runs can of course be accommodated if required and regular scheduled orders offer the opportunity to achieve maximum efficiency.

Our surface mount capability has been configured to serve our core business of small to medium volume orders where the ability to change quickly between board configurations is as essential as component placement speed. Components from 0402 to 20 mil pitch (including BGA's) can be placed using on-the-fly video placement correction for all components. This means that as each component is picked up it is immediately checked for package type and orientation using a high resolution camera and frame grab system mounted in the placement head. A separate fixed camera provides additional information for larger devices.

These techniques offer advantages over mechanically centred systems in terms of both placement accuracy and the safe handling of fragile components.

The system is controlled by a dedicated PC running Windows™ based software and allows several methods of data entry. Programming can be carried out off-line thus allowing a new job to be set up whilst the current job is being run on the machine.

The graphics based software can directly read Gerber photoplot data produced by any cad system. This allows extremely fast and accurate programming of board and component data regardless of the cad package used to create the design.

Alternatively, any CAD ASCII file containing placement information can be imported. This allows full flexibility for subsequent modifications to layout or components. Bill of materials information can be imported in any format.

The pick and place machines are supported by an infra red reflow oven incorporating Windows™ software running on a dedicated PC. The oven features auto calibration and fault monitoring whilst heating profiles can be set for individual board types and the data stored for use on future batches of the same board.

Conventional Assembly

Assembly of conventional through-hole components is carried out at well equipped anti-static workstations by an experienced assembly team. This ensures fast, efficient insertion of the components into the boards before they are passed through a fully automatic wave soldering machine to produce conventional solder joints of a consistently high quality.