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Printed circuit board assembly

The Complete Works

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  • © 1989

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  1. P. J. W. Noble
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Part of the book series: Open University Press Robotics Series (OUPRS)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • P. J. W. Noble
    Pages 1-15

  3. Board design for assembly

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    Pages 16-29

  4. Component specifications and their impact

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    Pages 30-43

  5. Planning the kitting

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    Pages 44-57

  6. Standards

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    Pages 58-68

  7. Planning the production area

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    Pages 69-85

  8. Programming the machine

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    Pages 86-94

  9. Inspection — is it really necessary?

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    Pages 95-97

  10. Choosing the best machine

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    Pages 98-116

  11. Manual, light-guided, semi-automatic and robotic assembly

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    Pages 117-126

  12. Training of operations, programming and planning staff

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    Pages 127-132

  13. Cost considerations

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    Pages 133-143

  14. Mass soldering technology

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    Pages 144-158

  15. Surface-mount components

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    Pages 159-165

  16. Conclusions

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    Pages 166-167

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 168-203
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About this book

Assembly of 'difficult' components onto printed circuit boards is emerging as an important application area for small, fast industrial robots. For other robot tasks - for example paint spraying or arc welding - the applications engineer can rely on a body of published information representing decades of accumulated knowledge about the actual process being automated. But for the process of assembly relatively little systematically presented knowledge exists, mainly because so much manual assembly depends on extremely subtle co-ordination of hand, eye and brain which is hard to represent directly in engineering terms. As for the particular processes of electronic assembly, they have hardly been covered at all in the literature. Yet the design of a good PCB automation system depends crucially on the responsible engineer fully understanding every aspect of the process he or she is automating, whether working for the electronics manufacturer, an automation company, a research laboratory or a machine builder. The author of this book has had extensive practical experience in all these roles: as a source of great detail on most aspects of the electronic assembly process it will be of unique value not only to the robot specialist but well beyond that to anyone needing to understand how printed circuit boards are manufactured. P. G. Davey Acknowledgements The author is indebted to many companies and individuals from within the pcb assembly industry.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Printed circuit board assembly

  • Book Subtitle: The Complete Works

  • Authors: P. J. W. Noble

  • Series Title: Open University Press Robotics Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-6234-0

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: P.J.W. Noble 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-6236-4Published: 03 January 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-6234-0Published: 09 March 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 203

  • Number of Illustrations: 116 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

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