EMS companies who produce PCBA’s have been using stencils for decades, to apply solder paste to boards, but this traditional method may one day be a thing of the past. Adam Harsant, Director at ...

Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams sort through the hardware hacking gems of the week. There was a kerfuffle about whether a ventilator data dump from Medtronics was open source or not, ...

Removing the use of stencils for applying solder paste seven years ago helped to put Gemini Tec on the path to sustained success and business growth, with PCBA production topping 100,000 units in 2015 ...

A PCB stencil provides a template that goes over the PCB and has openings only where solder paste needs to be applied. With a glob of solder paste and a squeegee, an entire board can have the solder ...

This video illustrates about solder paste printing. Solder paste performs the function of a physical interconnection material and also serves as the conductor, structural support, and thermal ...

Print Param Decision Assist software tool evaluates PCB data to generate printing parameters for Yamaha surface-mount printers during new product introduction (NPI). The tool analyzes board dimensions ...

SolderKing released SAC0307, a low-silver alloy option within its SK P2-5 solder paste family designed to support flexible alloy selection while maintaining the same established flux chemistry and ...

As electronic systems increase in component density, designers will typically look to match fine 0.10 mm thick solder paste stencils on the pc board to equally fine connectors with a co-planarity not ...