Republished from Welding Journal (September 2021) with permission of the American Welding Society (AWS).
By: Joshua Edberg, Director of Global Marketing at OK International, the parent company of Metcal, a provider of benchtop soldering systems
The evolution of electronics and devices must keep pace to meet today's operator challenges
Fig. 1 - Soldering a highly metalized through-hole coaxial connector onto a telecommunications assembly circuit board.
As technology in the electronics industry rapidly advances, electronic devices are getting smaller, faster, and more functional. Advanced printed circuit boards (PCBs) are now double-sided with stacked multiple layers. Thus, they are far more complex than conventional PCB designs and contain more components in tighter spaces, creating high-density interconnect (HDI) PCB configurations.
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