Surface Mounted Technology (SMT) for Surface Mounted Device (SMD)
With the high demand of electronic devices from last few decades, the electronic component manufacturing industry has also evolved a lot. To cope up with the demand the industry has also need to evolve with new tools and methodologies.
Surface Mounted Technology (SMT) for Surface Mounted Devices (SMD) are discovered as an answer to speedup the overall manufacturing process. These also helped improving the quality and reliability of the devices and most important by greatly reducing the size of devices. Due to this “SMT” and “SMD” terms are very popular in the electronic manufacturing and assembly business.
By definition, Surface Mounted Technology (SMT) is the method of placing components on the PCB board and Surface Mounted Device (SMD) is an electronic component that is mounted on a PCB board.
Before Surface Mounted Technology (SMT), through-hole technology (THT) construction method was widely used for adding components with their wire leads into the respective holes in the PCB. Now a days, both the technologies work hand-in hand to put SMDs as well as large transformers, control buttons, heat-sink on the same PCB.
During the earlier deployment phase of SMT, the production process speeds up, but due to less accuracy of SMT machines the risk of defects also increases due to smaller component and the denser packing on PCB. Detection of failures has become critical for any SMT manufacturing process which leads to further invention of various manual, semi-automatic and automatic testing machines which are currently an integral part of the entire manufacturing process.
A SMT component is usually smaller than its through-hole counterpart because it has either smaller leads or no leads at all. It may have short pins or leads of various styles, flat contacts, a matrix of solder balls (BGAs), or terminations on the body of the component.
ElectroTrail for SMT and SMD
ElectroTrail has complete setup for SMT for supporting our customers. We provide this process to deliver the highest-quality products at lowest possible cost by using the most efficient processes. We have two station Pick-and-place machine along with a eight-zones lead free reflow oven that brings even more accuracy and control to this highly-sensitive process.
At ElectroTrail, we strive hard to meet customer requirements to the fullest and meet the stringent quality targets. We achieve this using out state of the art setup with all required equipment’s and most important the trained man-power we have. We not only partner with our customer for assembly of electronic circuits (PCB) but also help customer for design and development of boards, procurement of components, support for box-build assembly as needed.
