Many products have become “smart.” A great example is vacuum cleaners, they have sensors that tell you when a canister needs to be emptied or automatically adjust to the floor surface. Fully autmoated systems will actually learn the layout of your space so they can clean up virtually automatically.
Even the simplest of tools we use today are increasingly complex. Consumer, industrial, medical, transportation, and military tools are becoming smarter and more easily managed, even from a distance. For example, we expect:
- our vacuum cleaners to learn our house’s layout, our fridges to tell us when we need milk, or the lights to come on automatically when it is dark.
- shop floor manufacturing devices to alert when tasks are done, when they need maintenance, and how many pieces have been completed.
- Medical devices to send patient data to remote providers, facility doors to open with a wave of the hand, and medical carts track medications and supplies that have been dispensed.
All of these applications are the results of taking basic tools and adding functionality and these product enhancements require printed circuit boards assemblies aka PCBAs. PCBA’s serve as the products brain; connecting the electronic components in these devices such as sensors, cable assemblies, and software so they can store and transmit data. Whether the data provided is a convenience or mission critical data it is truly amazing how many items contain Printed Circuit Boards and how much we have come to rely on such tools at home and at work.
ADL’s surface mount machine allows ADL to optimize the process to build multiple printed circuit board assemblies at a time.
The ubiquity of smart devices comes at a cost. Just like any other industry, there is a tremendous range in quality of the printed circuit boards and components in the products around us. One of the choices manufacturers’ make is the level of quality needed for any given device.
At ADL the boards we create go into products used in anything from healthcare to industrial tools. That is why our boards go through both visual, automated and functional quality checks throughout production. We also provide design support from prototyping through production to ensure that the boards meet your specifications and product requirements.
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